With the retirement of Map Viewer Classic in Q1 2026, a meaningful workflow gap has emerged for those of us teaching geocoding in a browser-based ArcGIS Online environment: there is no longer a streamlined, interactive way to review and rematch unmatched locations comparable to what Classic provided.
Map Viewer Classic offered an intuitive interactive rematch experience — a consolidated view of matched, tied, and unmatched records with candidate scoring, address inspection, and map-based placement, all in one dialog. This was ideal for teaching students the full geocoding quality review process.
The current Map Viewer "Review Locations" workflow requires multiple steps across multiple panes (Layers pane → Show Table → Create Feature → Search → manually delete from review table). For unmatched records, students must:
- Open the layer table alongside the review table
- Use "Create feature" to manually place points via search
- Separately edit and delete the record from the review table
This is a cumbersome multi-step process that fragments what was once a single cohesive workflow, and it lacks the match score visibility and candidate list that made the Classic experience pedagogically valuable.
**The workaround isn't workable for Web GIS**
Yes, ArcGIS Pro's Rematch Addresses pane is the functional successor — and it's excellent. But recommending Pro for a workflow that previously lived entirely in the browser defeats the purpose of teaching Web GIS. Not all students have reliable desktop access, and the browser-based environment is increasingly where the industry operates.
Please consider restoring a proper interactive geocoding review/rematch experience in Map Viewer — one that surfaces match scores, candidate lists, and allows address correction without requiring users to navigate across multiple panes. This is a foundational GIS skill that deserves a first-class browser-based workflow.
I suspect this is affecting more educators and practitioners than have formally raised it.
