Hello,
I am trying to figure out how to rework my Address Locator or my reference data such that it will return candidates for street segments that have address ranges of 0 - 0 without having to type "0 A ST" for example.
If I type "A St, WROX" (for street name and zone) then I get no results. (This A St does not have any residences or addresses)
However, if I add a "0" in front of the street for an address number, it gives me a 100 match to "A ST, WROX" and strips off the 0 in the match address. Lowering the minimum candidate score does not help.
Any ideas??
Thanks,
David
As a conversation starter: which segment of A st does the geocoder match it to when you add the 0(zero) ?
I have plenty of streets that don't have physical addresses assigned to them, but every segment has a range. (Think freeways: they have a range even if it's based on mile post values and not a single physical address.)
How important is your spatial accuracy/precision when you geocode the phantom addresses, and how many do you have? I wonder if you could just create a set of points that would have A ST, WROX as the matching element and that would work for you. Like a place names sort of feature class. No 'real' address, just a point to match it to.
An alternative is to create a streets feature class of named streets all merged on the street name. Then you could use a US Streets Street Name type of locator. I've never used one because the work I do (9-1-1 dispatch) requires a much higher level of precision with respect to the geocoded result.