Address Geocoding with ArcGIS 10.1

Description

This course teaches the workflow to efficiently geocode and create geographic features from tabular address data. All types of organizations collect and store mission-critical address information, such as customer, facility, or public safety incident locations. Geocoding, or the process of associating tabular data with locations on a GIS map, allows you to visualize address-based data in context with other geographic data, analyze patterns, quickly respond to events, and make informed decisions.

Who Should Attend

GIS professionals; business, marketing, and crime analysts; and other knowledge workers who need to view and analyze address-based information on a map.

Learn How To

• Prepare address data for accurate geocoding.
• Choose suitable reference data given the characteristics of your address data.
• Create address locators to define how your address data is matched to geographic locations.
• Geocode a table of addresses all at once and interactively geocode single addresses as needed.
• Create composite address locators to improve geocoding accuracy and match results.
• Perform reverse geocoding to quickly find the address associated with a map location or set of GPS coordinates.

To complete course exercises, you need the following software:

• ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop (Basic, Standard, or Advanced)

Geocoding addresses

• Address-matching workflow
• Determining an address type
• Address locator
• Reference data
• Address locator style
• Identify address fields
• Create a locator to find addresses

Geocoding exact locations and places

• Creating more accurate locators
• Standardizing addresses
• Create locators for finding features and places

Improving your geocoding

• Composite locators
• Working with matching errors
• Create a composite locator

Completion of ArcGIS II: Essential Workflows or Learning ArcGIS Desktop (for ArcGIS 10) or equivalent knowledge is required. Viewing the free training seminar Geocoding in ArcGIS Desktop 10 is recommended for those new to geocoding.