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Representing Duplicate Geocoded Addresses

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06-30-2011 01:34 PM
DavidDeMarco
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Hello,

I am trying to geocode a table of addresses which contain many duplicates.  This list of addresses is a list of emergency incidents over a period of time, and I would like the symbology to represent the number of times each address requested service.  Is there a way to do this within the geocoding process or do I have to separately sort/count the incidents and map them as quantities in symbology?

Currently I get one geocoded point for an address that has 20+ representations in the dataset. I'd like to be able to weight that point more heavily so a person viewing the data can tell the difference between an address that requested service once vs. an address that had multiple requests.

Thanks!
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JoeBorgione
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Hello,

I am trying to geocode a table of addresses which contain many duplicates.  This list of addresses is a list of emergency incidents over a period of time, and I would like the symbology to represent the number of times each address requested service.  Is there a way to do this within the geocoding process or do I have to separately sort/count the incidents and map them as quantities in symbology?

Currently I get one geocoded point for an address that has 20+ representations in the dataset. I'd like to be able to weight that point more heavily so a person viewing the data can tell the difference between an address that requested service once vs. an address that had multiple requests.

Thanks!


I think you'll want to do it before or after the actual geocoding process;  what I suggest is creating a summary table.  If you do it before the geocoding process, you'll only geocode a percentage of the overall incidents.  If you summarize it after wards, obviously you'll geocode them all.

You could then symbolize them using the count attribute in the summary table.
That should just about do it....
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DavidDeMarco
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Summary table... Thank you.
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RyanMiller
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I am attempting to do something similar to this as well.  Once you create the summary table, how do you use it to symbolize the points?  In the table, I have the address field, and then another field for the count.  Thanks!
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JoeBorgione
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Try joining your summary table to your geocoding results attribute table.
That should just about do it....
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