arcgis world geocoding service

[potomacGIS]

I'm not having success with the ArcGIS World geocoding service.  Here is the error:

Error: -2147467259 - Failed to execute (GeocodeAddresses).

Does anyone know of address locator for Pennsylvania?  thx s

[potomacGIS]

Hey Michael.  Guess what?  I created an address locator from Allegheny county ( Pittsburg).  I don’t need to rely on the ArcGIS world geocoding service.  Using the centerline data and matching up fields solves my problem.  I needed that point feature class to breakdown the x, y point from the addresses of food sources.  My textbook uses the arcMap way.  Arc GIS Pro uses the open street format for creating an address locator.  Unfortunately, everyone knows the inaccuracy of the centerline method.   Think about it… it’s using a method that creates a point from let’s say middle of Main Street for 500 Main Street. But Putting the address in the middle of its span is not necessarily where it’s located.  
Using ArcGIS world geocoding services is the better method.   Just haven’t figured out why it’s not working.   ESRI tech support thinks it may be organizational issue.  University of the Potomac has really stretched me as far as getting down to the core issues.  
i soooooooo appreciate your help.  Thanks again.  -s

[potomacGIS · Accepted solution]

ESRI said I’m using a public account under the organizational account.  Only the organizational can batch geocoding.  Everyone can use the ArcGIS world geocoding service with a single query.  My solution was to build a locator using the create locator tool. I used the centerline data from the county of Allegheny ( Pittsburgh).  

[MichaelVolz]

How large is your table of records to geocode?  I know you are unable to use batch geocoding because of your use of a public account, but that process does use credits and if it's a large table you can use up a lot of credits.  Also if it's a process that needs to occur on a regular basis, you would use even more credits up, so creating your own address locator/geocode service would save you credits (money) there as well.  I'm glad you were able to find data to be able to create your own locator.

ESRI's World geocode service is very good though.

[potomacGIS]

----------excerpt from ESRI Tech Support----------

Thank you for the quick response.

1. Members of the organization can utilize the credits allotted to them by the organization. Public accounts do not possess credits and hence cannot geocode, perform analysis or host feature layers.
   • It may be not possible to state the truth, however, it is more than likely that students from other colleges and universities use organizational accounts. Using an organizational account enables them to work (share content) with the organization and collaborate with other organizations.
   • We may assume that other schools use this hierarchical structure too,  as Public accounts work in such a way by design.
2. If this is related to using a Custom Geocoding service in ArcGIS Online:
   • You may create a custom geocoding service for batch geocoding in Enterprise as well.
   • Or it may require setting up a utility in ArcGIS Enterprise to link the Custom Geocoding service prepared in ArcGIS Online.

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