Custom Address Locator
Create a Custom Address Locator
Summary: For large jobs, great for advanced jobs with complex data
About: Here's how to clean your data, find reference data, and create an address locator.
Cleaning up yourData
Check if the data you want to geocodecontains a full address column (e.g.1234 N 56th St.). If it does not, you can create this column by combining street number, street direction, street name, and street type (The CONCAT function in Excel will help with this). You will need this for geocoding with your address locator.
Find Reference Data
Prior to working in ArcGIS Pro, find a road file to work with. You can find quality road files of Wisconsin and its counties on census.gov (TIGER/Lines Shapefiles) in the FTP Archive or you can usegeodata.wisc.edu. For other areas outside of Wisconsin you may contact the AGS Library for further assistance.
ArcGIS Pro
Create Address Locator
Now that we have the prerequisites to make an Address Locator we will now create one.
1. Navigate to the 'Analysis' tab, 'Tools', 'Geoprocessing' pane.
2. Search 'Create Address Locator'
3. Click 'Create Address Locator'
- Address Locator Style - 'US Addresses - Dual Range'
- Reference Data - Road file is going to be the 'Primary Table'
- Field Map
- Some of the fields maybe already filled in based on the quality of the road file.
- The key fields are: 'From Left', 'To Left', 'From Right', 'To Right', and 'Street Name'
- The supplementary fields that can help increase accuracy are: 'Full Street Name', 'Prefix Direction', 'Prefix Type', 'Suffix Type', 'Suffix Direction', 'Left ZIP Code', 'Right ZIP Code'.
- Name the Output Address Locator
- Run
Geocode with your new Address Locator
1. Right click your table (.csv file) that you are going to geocode.
2. Click 'Geocode Table'.
3. Click 'Go to Tool'
- Input Table - Your data
- Input Locator - Locator that you created
- Input Address Fields - Multiple Field
- Street or Intersection - Full Address column from table
- ZIP Code - ZIP Code columnfrom table
- Output
- Run
Building an Address Locator (ArcMap)
How to create an address locator using the Create Address Locator tool in ArcMap.
