Single line and multiline search with FindAddressCandidates doesn’t populate city, region in many cases.

Question

* Description:*     Searched with a text “Bangalore” with findAddressCandidates api.
*     City is empty.
*  Searched with Postal “Bangalore” with findAddressCandidates multiline api.
*  City and state are empty.

* ESRI Call:

http://geocode.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World/GeocodeServer/findAddressCandidates?SingleLine=Bangalore&langCode=EN&maxLocations=1&forStorage=false&outFields=City,Region,Country,Postal&f=pjson

Response:

"candidates": [  {   "address": "Bangalore, Karnātaka, India",   "location": {    "x": 77.593686440000511,    "y": 12.971936200000471   },   "score": 100,   "attributes": {    "City": "",    "Region": "Karnātaka",    "Country": "IND",    "Postal": ""   }     } ]

http://geocode.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World/GeocodeServer/findAddressCandidates?Address=&Postal=560037&langCode=EN&maxLocations=10&forStorage=false&outFields=City,Region,Country,Postal&f=pjson

Response:

" candidates": [  {   "address": "560037",   "location": {    "x": 77.6929203250005,    "y": 12.96380000600044   },   "score": 100,   "attributes": {    "City": "",    "Region": "",    "Country": "IND",    "Postal": "560037"   }  } ]

JohnGravois · Answer

If you append "Loc_name" as an additional outField in your requests you'll see which specific locators are producing the match.

Its just my two cents, but I don't think its appropriate to expect matches produced by IND.Postal or Gaz.WorldGazetteer.POI1 locators to always include values for City or Region.  For example, postal codes don't have a 1:1 correspondence with administrative boundaries.