Address Geocoding

With support from:

NSF DUE-0903270

Prepared by:

in partnership with:

John McGeeJennifer McKee

Geospatial Technician Education Through Virginia’s Community Colleges (GTEVCC)

Background

Address geocoding is the process of determining the spatial or geographic location of single or multiple addresses of interest.

Required Information

Reference data, which contains the location of roads and attributes like name, street type, to and from address numbers (for each side of the road), etc…

A table or list of addresses that you want to locate spatially.

An address locator, which defines the way the reference data is used to find matches with the addresses of interest. This is created in ArcCatalog.

Reference data example

Road layer with attributes like:

• Name• Type – street, drive, lane, etc…• Predir and Suffix – N, S, E, W, NE, etc…• L or R F_ADD and T_ADD – the to (T)

and from (F) address numbers on the left (L) and right (R) sides of the road

Addresses of Interest

Create address locator

Geocoding Output

Each red dot

represents the location

of an address of

interest.