A GIS operation for converting street addresses into spatial data that can be displayed as features on a map, usually by referencing address information from a street segment data layer.
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Standards for creating a RESTful Geocoding webservice
I am about to start defining a new API which will allow our clients to perform Geo Coding lookups. I would like to follow any standards there are out there. However looking at a few examples:
The ...
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How to automatically create 2D-point features from addresses in an SQL database
I currently have an SQL-Table which contains our buildings. I already added the table and now want to create features ( 2D-Points ) from that information. The biggest problem I have is that the ...
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Geocode from mile marker/milepost to latitude/longitude?
I have a dataset that describes a few million incidents along Texas roadways. The vast majority of incidents only list a highway name and a milepost. For example, milepost 120 on I-20 or milepost 263 ...
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Data Source: Address ranges for every block in NYC
I'm looking for data that defines the address ranges used on NYC blocks. On this screenshoot you can see google has noted the first addresses on each block of West End Avenue and 92nd/93rd/94th st. ...
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How to reverse geocode with ArcMap?
What steps to I have to take in ArcMap (ArcEditor) to input a lat / long and return nearest address?
I found the Reverse Geocode tool but I can't figure out what to put in the "Input Features" and ...
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Using Multiple ShapeFiles as a single address locator
Let's say I have 5 shapefiles, and I want to use them as a single address locator via the ILocator interface. What would you recommend?
1) Merge the shapefiles into a single shapefile then convert ...
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Extracting all address locations from street centerline file
I have a project in which I want to "extract" all of the geocoded addresses from a street centerline file (with my defined offset and whatever other user defined input is needed). If it is helpful ...
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Do shapefiles sometimes contain the necessary data for address resolution?
Right now I am doing address resolution with a ESRI file called Street_Addresses_US.loc which works. I have been given a shape file that contains streets that was compiled by the state. Is it ...
