Hi,
I have a table of incidents (gas service pipe escapes) that I would like to plot on our GIS.
The data includes grid references in British National Grid projection, but unfortunately the data quality is appalling - everything from an 11-digit(!) X co-ordinate to 111111,222222 type nonsense to invented grid references that could be correct but are in completely the wrong location.
With our mains escape data this is not so much of a problem as we have all mains digitised so (assuming the equipment ID provided is correct!) we can check to see if the grid reference provided is within the vicinity of that pipe, and if not assign that record a new grid reference that IS somewhere along the pipe (usually the centre or a certain percentage along the length of the line feature).
However with services we don't have the pipes as geographic features to compare with.
The service escapes data does however have an equipment ID, and assuming this is correct it is possible to extract some address data from our SAP system.
So, I'm thinking, why not geocode the service escapes to the associated address point in OS AddressLayer2...
Except, the geocoding tools that came with my copy of ArcGIS only have address locator styles for US addresses.
There is also a product from ESRI (UK) called ProductivitySuite, which contains LocatorHub, which is supposed to be able to geocode to AddressLayer2 level out-of-the-box. It turns out we already have a site license for this. But I can't figure out how to do anything with AddressLayer2 using it, the 'Geocoding Wizard' with it only seems to work to postcode level, and wherever it asks for a Geocoding service, Gazetteer service or I think somewhere it says geocoding class as well, the drop-down menus are empty!
I will ask our contact from ESRI about this next time he's in, although he assured me before it would be easy to figure out from the documentation (it's not!), but in the meantime, does anyone else have any experience using ProductivitySuite to geocode to AddressLayer2? Or does anyone have an address locator style for the UK so I can do this just using the built-in geocoding functionality?
Or any other suggestions for how to achieve what I'm trying to do?
Cheers
Dan
