Locator Style to Include Apartments/Units

[DarrochKaye]

Hi All,

I am brand new to geocoding, so apologies if this is ridiculously basic however I cannot work out how to configure the following.

I have a point database with individual fields for flat_number, flat_number_prefix, number_first, street_name etc, and when I use the US Address - Single Address locator style (despite me being in Australia), it works fine for addresses that are not part of a unit, apartment block etc, but not those within these.

This data, e.g. 'Unit' or 9A etc, are not listed in the candidate list, therefore the locator style must not accept them. Whether this is due to their alphanumeric nature, I am unsure. However I would've thought that there must be a default locator style, for a point database, that includes these additional required fields for apartment blocks?

I'm using ArcGIS 10 with no service packs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
DK

[CFrate]

In your list of address locators to choose from, are there no options that specify "with units" in the title?
You could try looking for "US One Address with House Unit" or "US Address - Single House with Units". Perhaps these are no longer out-of-the-box at 10.

[KevinHighland]

These aren't out of the box in 10.


If you have a "full address" field for your address layer that spells out the information for units and apartment blocks (ex: 335 Santa Fe Dr A), you can create a 'General - Single Field' locator around this field and it should work fine.

[DarrochKaye]

These aren't out of the box in 10.


If you have a "full address" field for your address layer that spells out the information for units and apartment blocks (ex: 335 Santa Fe Dr A), you can create a 'General - Single Field' locator around this field and it should work fine.

My reference data in which I use to build the locator has seperate fields for all the individual address components, which I understood as the preferred method. Mu address table I am trying to geocode has all address components in a single field.

Is this the correct methodology?

[BradNiemand · Accepted solution]

Nothing out of the box is supported but there may be something that might help you here:

http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/26362-Locator-Style-for-Apt-or-Units

Brad

[DanMcCoy]

Perhaps these are no longer out-of-the-box at 10.

Please vote to have unit locators provided out of the box...
http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=08730000000by67

[BradNiemand]

This style now ships with the ArcGIS 10.3 release of the software.

Brad