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Adding geocode parameters to the geocode extension

expand/collapse item About geocoding

Address matching, a type of geocoding, is a process that compares components of an address you enter to a street database to determine whether there is a match. To perform address matching, you must have a street file that contains street centerline segments with information about addresses.

ArcIMS has several standard address styles that you can access and use in Author:

Address Style Description
U.S streets with zone This style considers street addresses with zone information such as postal ZIP Codes or city names. Street features are represented by two house number intervals, one for the left side of the street and the other for the right side of the street. The parity (odd/even) of each interval should agree. The beginning number of the intervals can either be lower or higher than the end number.
U.S. streets This style is used for address geocoding without zone information. Street features are represented by two house number intervals, one for the left side of the street and the other for the right side of the street.
U.S. single range with zone This style considers street or parcel addresses with zone information such as postal ZIP Codes or city names. Features are represented by one house number interval. No parity (odd/even) of the house numbers is required.
U.S. single range This style is used for address geocoding without zone information. Features are represented by one house number interval. No parity (odd/even) of the house numbers is required.
U.S. single house with zone This style considers parcel or point addresses with zone information such as postal ZIP Codes or city names. Features are represented by a single house number.
U.S. single house This style is used for address geocoding without zone information. Features are represented by a single house number.
ZIP+4 This style is used for geocoding ZIP+4 using two components (ZIP and ZIP4).
ZIP+4 range This style is used for geocoding ZIP+4 in a range using three components (ZIP, ZIP4Low, and ZIP4High).
ZIP 5-digit This style is used for geocoding five-digit ZIP Code addresses.
Single field This style is used for geocoding based on the value of a single field in the reference layer's attribute table. The style contains one component (Keyfield).
USAddressCityStateZip U.S. streets with city and state or zone: This style considers street addresses by included either city and state or zone information. This format provides a format used frequently on Web sites where users often do not know the ZIP code but do know the city and state.
USCityState U.S. Cities with State: This style allows you to find a specific city in the country. Tables of addresses that can be geocoded using this style must contain fields that have city name and state-specific information.
WorldCityCountry World Cities with Country: This style allows you to locate cities within a specified country. Tables of addresses that can be geocoded using this style must also contain a city name and country name fields.

expand/collapse item How to create a geocodable layer

expand/collapse item Creating a geocodable layer

In order for address matching to work, a layer must have an address style and geocoding index assigned to it. Once this is done, a user can perform address matching in one of the ArcIMS viewers.

  1. Click a geocodable layer in the Legend to make it active.
  2. Click the Geocoding Properties button Geocoding Properties on the Author toolbar.
  3. Click the Address Style dropdown arrow, and click an address style.
  4. Click a cell in the Field column, then click a field on the dropdown list that appears.

    You must assign fields to Values with an asterisk.

    If ArcIMS detects an appropriate field, it is already provided in the Field column.

  5. Verify that Build Geocoding Index is checked.
  6. Click OK.

    If you are geocoding a shapefile, the geocoding index is built, and the dialog box closes. You are finished. The geocoding indexes are stored in the same directory as the shapefile.

    If you are geocoding an ArcSDE layer, the Geocoding Index Directory dialog box appears.

  7. Type the name of a directory in which to save the geocoding index. The default directory is C:\TEMP on Windows or /tmp on UNIX and Linux.
  8. Click OK.

    9. The geocoding index is built. Due to its potentially large size, geocoding an ArcSDE layer can be a time-consuming process.

expand/collapse item Troubleshooting a geocoding index

Geocoding index was not built

When trying to create the geocoding index you get the following error:

Geocoding index was not built. Check fields for Geocoding Properties.

A possible reason that the geocoding index was not built is the location of the Index Builder could not be found. To fix this problem, see the information about IndexBuilderEXE in Setting site properties.

You can create a geocoding index in Author, and this is the recommended way to create an index. However, if you need to manually index a file, more information is available in the topic Indexing geocode layers.



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