Hello!
Essential problem: The "Create Locator" geoprocessing tool has mandatory Field Mapping fields, but my instructions (see below) lack any values for me to provide. Only a few values inside the Field Alias are intelligible to me, and they don't seem to fit the Field Name.
I include 6 JPG files to allow you to see the values available to me to input Field Aliases. The field values come from the author of a book and the dataset that came with it, thus, I am not familiar with their meanings.
I am a 100 % new user to anything GIS. This is unfamiliar territory for me. My trial-and-error has resulted in only failures, which is very time-consuming and very discouraging to continue attempting to learn.
I have read ESRI Help on "Create Locator" and "Primary Locator Roles".
I am learning by using the 2019 ESRI book, Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro, Second Edition, for v 2.3 and am using the dataset from the book. But, I am using AGP v. 2.8. (And, I have a Student User Acct = no access to ESRI staff to support my questions when I cannot figure out discrepancies between the two versions.)
The book, Ch 7 about Geocoding, page 297-298 instructs me to use the *deprecated* "Create Address Locator" geoprocessing tool. I I understand v 2.8 uses the "Create Locator" instead = no problem. But the Create Locator tool has a different interface than shown in the textbook. Version 2.8 has more mandatory values -- and the data from the book's data set means I do not know their content. When I choose the "Primary Table" = "streets", and the "Role" is "Street Address", then I must choose additional inputs into Field Mapping > Alias Names which the textbook does not mention let alone instruct.
Most of all, I don't know which values from drop-down lists I must choose for 5 of the 6 *mandatory* Field Aliases:
- Left House Number From,
- Left House Number To,
- Left House Number From, and
- Left House Number To.
- Language Code
I am stopped 100 % in Chapter 7 about geocoding. Trial-and-error has failed me.
Can someone direct me to practical answers?
Sincerely, thank you!