Set offset for street address role locator

[JoeBorgione]

I've  looked in the online help, googled, and have created a new locator thinking I have missed something.  Is there a way to set an offset in a street address role locator?  (ArcGIS Pro 2.6)

Edited to add:  Looks like in 2.7 it's available.  https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/geocoding/tips-for-improving-geocoding-quality.ht...

@BradNiemand 

[DanPatterson]

is it one of those weird ones like....

The location that contains an offset distance from the found address, for example, 30 yards south from 342 Main St. This is only supported for locators created with the Create Address Locator tool.

[JoeBorgione]

Create Address Locator is so passe. Since we are strictly a Pro shop, I use only use Create Locator.  After 2.6 the old style address locators are no longer supported, and I'm guessing that was part of the motivation to add setting the offset at 2.7.

You know how much I love to upgrade versions. Here goes...  😱

[DanPatterson]

The quote was from 2.7 help as well

[BradNiemand · Accepted solution]

Joe,

The ability to edit the side offset and end offset was added at Pro 2.7.

Brad

[IanMackenzie]

FYI.   Display Options including side offset will disappear when you disable   "Street Address" as a geocoding match option (Geocoding options >> Match Options >> Categories to support).  This is something you might do, for example, if you only want that particular locator to work for reverse geocoding within a composite locator.  Even though the display option is inaccessible the offset still applies when you reverse geocode (point will jump the set distance to side of line when you click on map).  If you want to set the offset you need to do this before you turn off the match option.  In my case I wanted the point to remain on the line as I am only using this "sub"locator to return the street name on a reverse geocode.  So I set the offset to 0 and then changed the match options. This is the case as recently as v 3.0.

[JoeBorgione]

Just upgraded to 2.7:  While I haven't created a new locator I can adjust the offset to existing ones that were created in 2.6 which is cool

@BradNiemand  are the offset properties available in arcpy?

[DanPatterson]

Locator—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation  short read

[JoeBorgione]

I've used the locator class as the finishing touch to a create locator script:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Fri Dec 18 10:06:14 2020

@author: jborgione

Single Role Street Address Locator
"""

import arcpy

arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True
arcpy.SetLogHistory(False)

''' Set the stage and create the locator'''

locatorDir = r'N:\GIS\Geocoding'
locatorName = 'SingleRoleStreetAddressLocator'
outLocator = f'{locatorDir}\{locatorName}'

language = 'ENG'
country = 'USA'

inTable = "https://pathTo/rest/services/internalDrive/FeatureServer/9 StreetAddress;"
          
          
          
fieldMapping =  "'StreetAddress.HOUSE_NUMBER_FROM_LEFT 9.FROMADDR_L';"\
                "'StreetAddress.HOUSE_NUMBER_TO_LEFT 9.TOADDR_L';"\
                "'StreetAddress.HOUSE_NUMBER_FROM_RIGHT 9.FROMADDR_R';"\
                "'StreetAddress.HOUSE_NUMBER_TO_RIGHT 9.TOADDR_R';"\
                "'StreetAddress.STREET_PREFIX_DIR 9.PREDIR';"\
                "'StreetAddress.STREET_NAME 9.NAME';"\
                "'StreetAddress.STREET_SUFFIX_TYPE 9.POSTTYPE';"\
                "'StreetAddress.STREET_SUFFIX_DIR 9.POSTDIR';"\
                "'StreetAddress.CITY_LEFT 9.INCMUNI_L';"\
                "'StreetAddress.CITY_RIGHT 9.INCMUNI_R';"\
                "'StreetAddress.METRO_AREA_LEFT 9.UNINCCOM_L';"\
                "'StreetAddress.METRO_AREA_RIGHT 9.UNINCCOM_R';"             
                
arcpy.geocoding.CreateLocator(country, inTable, fieldMapping, outLocator, language)

''' With the locator now created, use the new locator class to set values
    of various properties'''

locatorPath = f'{outLocator}.loc'
locator = arcpy.geocoding.Locator(locatorPath)

locator.matchOutOfRange = False
locator.minCandidateScore = 80
locator.minMatchScore = 85
locator.categories = 'Street Address,Intersection'
locator.reverseGeocodeFeatureTypes = 'StreetInt,StreetAddress'
locator.updateLocator()  

[BradNiemand]

Joe,

This is not currently supported for arcpy.  We have an issue in our backlog to get it added in an upcoming release.

Brad