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Locator Matching When I want a Tie

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07-30-2025 12:24 PM
andrewdfahey
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My locator seems to deduplicate address data when the way I've configured it should intentionally avoid that and return ties instead.

My organization's address data is property-ownership based which creates plenty of duplicate street addresses that may act differently because they stretch across different parcels or what have you (Image 1).

I created a locator that looks at bare street addresses which includes feature ID and does not include subaddresses (Image 2). I did not pass in subaddresses because geocoding yields "strict" results with a lot more unmatches.

I'd expect that if I passed an address with two equally possible results into a locator configured like this, it would return a tie because they are two identical addresses in the reference data as far as the locator is concerned. Instead, it matches immediately with the first result because the locator seems to deduplicate these addresses despite different geometry and feature IDs. When rematching addresses, it does not show the alternative option(s).

How can I get my locator to return ties when appropriate?

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