AnsweredAssumed Answered

apartment number at the beginning of address

Question asked by ishtiak on Apr 9, 2014
Latest reply on Apr 22, 2014 by awong-esristaff
  • Comment • 4
Hi,
I have been customizing Canadian dual range address locator. Right now I am working on customizing the locator to deal with addresses with apartment/suite numbers.
The code at this moment are able to geocode address that has apt/suite numbers at the end or beginning

for ex: 11 Sherwood Avenue Suite 228 or Apt#2019, 121 Davisville Avenue

But it cannot geocode the addresses when apartment numbers are written in a special way (a somewhat common way of writing in Toronto):

For example (re-written the addresses mentioned above): 228-11 Sherwood Avenue, 2019-121 Davisville Avenue...

Any hint on how to accommodate this way of writing addresses?

There is a section in the lot file 'Units and numbers at the beginning of address'..where
the separator is defined by 'OptNumSeparator'
the OptNumSeparator definition refers to Numseparator:

<def name="OptNumSeparator">
      <alt>
           <elt ref="NumSeparator"/>
      </alt>
      <alt/>
</def>

and the NumSeparator is defined as below:

<def name="NumSeparator">
      <alt>-</alt>
      <alt>#</alt>
      <alt>/</alt>
</def>

So it seems that "-" separator is already defined and I can't seem to understand why it is not geocoding this addresses with this specific separator (ex: 228-21 Sherwood Avenue)

Thanks in advance
Kazi
awong-esristaff
awong-esristaff Employee Apr 22, 2014 1:41 PM
Correct Answer
The problem has been resolved by modifying the parsing grammars in the customized locator style.

Agatha Wong
Esri
380 New York St
Redlands, CA 92373
See the reply in context
No one else had this question

Outcomes