ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government Address Collection
Address collection is an essential component of any plan for managing customer data. The process ensures that addresses in the database of the company are in line with those on the customers' proof of address documents like pay stubs and tax returns.
A central database of contacts can also be used to manage personal projects, such as sending holiday cards or wedding invitations. Here are some tips to collect and organize contact information in the easiest way possible.
ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government
The ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government solution provides an array of capabilities to aid in maintaining an authoritative address repository, continuously improve address data quality, and share authoritative addresses with internal and external stakeholders. The solution includes an ArcGIS Pro project designed to be used by mapping technicians, address verification teams, and others responsible for the maintenance, collection, and use of authoritative road centerlines as well as valid site addresses and associated postal addresses. Read the Full Guide includes a series of preconfigured ArcGIS Data Reviewer checks that can be used to confirm, maintain, and improve the integrity of address information.
Address data capture is a method that involves the gathering of postal and site addresses for all buildings, structures, and sites that require a unique identification number. This information is essential to the creation of a road and street network that promotes secure and efficient commerce.
If you follow the steps of the Add Site Addresses Task You can create an entirely new feature within the Address Data Management task. Site addresses are specific to the structure they serve or a specific location within the parcel. A site address could be the entrance to a driveway that is used by one or more houses on the parcel. The address of the site could also serve as a point of contact for a service point like the fire station.
You can add one or more distinct postal addresses to a website address. Postal addresses serve to identify a building or other structure and provide contact details for the owner or the person who occupies it. The feature type for addresses on the site and classification schema is based upon a status field that lets local governments categorize features into pending, temporary or current.
Assume that you are a supervisor of an address authority, and your team is assigned to verify an inaccurate address report provided by an external stakeholder. Open the Address Field Inventory map in the ArcGIS Workforce App and search for the address. Select the address that is missing and then click Edit. Enter the correct address details, including the street name and the municipality. Tap Submit (iOS), or the checkmark (Android).
ArcGIS Pro Project
ArcGIS Pro projects allow you to organize and store your work. They also offer access to a wide range of tools and features. A project can include the combination of maps, scenes, layouts, layers, and layers that present your data in the way you want to view it. It may also include connections to databases, folders and other resources for importing or exporting data.
Each item in a project includes a set of attributes that define it, or its metadata. The metadata of a project can help you identify items, assess them, and decide which ones are the best to use for your current task. It can be used to record the content of a project. A good example of metadata could be the description and name of a map or scene. By clicking the Properties button on the toolbar or the Details window, allows you to modify the metadata of each item in the Project.
ArcGIS Pro is reusable. The items within the project (such as maps and scenes) can be transferred to other projects. Additionally, components of the project (such as toolboxes and geodatabases) can be moved or changed from one location to another. A lot of items can be accessed via connections without having to save them in the project file.
When you open ArcGIS Pro, the Project tab appears on the start page with options to open a recent project or create a brand new project from templates. For example, you can create a new project by using the Map template which opens with a map view that displays a topographic basemap.
You can save a project either to an area on your local computer or to a folder on your portal of choice. The default location for projects is C: Users username> Documents ArcGIS Projects. If you want to save the project to an appropriate folder, you can check the Create a folder for this local project checkbox on the New Project dialog box.
If you can, it's a best practice to store your data, ArcGIS Pro installations, and project files on the same computer to reduce round-trip communication time. In some cases however, it's impossible to locate these components on the same computer, or you may prefer to share your data, project files, and other resources across a network.
Data Assistant Add-in
The Data Assistant Addin is a collection of tools that are organized into a Data Assistant Toolbar. These tools allow you to create source-target configuration files, and load or replace data.
These tools, when used conjunction the Community Data Aggregation Solution, allow staff to transform and load sources of data into a layer that can be used by a community and automate updates on a regular basis. Utilizing these tools, you can set up the solution to meet the specific needs of your organization.
Install the Data Assistant add-in on each ArcGIS Pro computer that will be used to migrate data to one or more layers of community. To download the add-in, browse to the Content section of your ArcGIS organization and click on the Data Assistant item.
Follow the steps for installation after the add-in is downloaded. After installing, close 링크모음 before opening the new ArcGIS Pro session. Once installed you can start the add-in by clicking on the Data Assistant icon in the ArcGIS Pro toolbar.
When the Data Assistant Add-in has been installed, you can create a Data Mapping file by using the Configure Data Mapping dialog box. This dialog box lets you to define the field mapping and the settings of the source-target configuration. Once configured, you can run the Replace Data tool to replace data in the target dataset from the source layer based on the setting you choose. This tool lets you stage results locally and skip final processing if you are only replacing data on a subset of records.
Data Management
Address data is crucial for most businesses and has to be reliable, accurate and standardized. It doesn't matter if it's for routing mail, providing location services on a site or for marketing to customers and prospects, bad data can be devastating. It is therefore vital to implement an address management system.
An address management system is a process for maintaining a standardized and verified list of addresses. It lets you manage your address database easily and ensure that it is in line with the national guidelines provided by the postal authority of your country. It also lets you validate and correct erroneous address information provided by internal or external stakeholders.
USPS, for example maintains a database of verified addresses. It also offers the certification known as CASS (Coding Accuracy System). An advanced solution like PostGrid is certified by CASS, which means that it is able to connect to the official USPS database to instantly verify an address. This can speed up the process and improve data accuracy.
This issue can be addressed by establishing an authoritative address repository that can accommodate a variety of information needs, and continually improving it through data quality processes. Achieving this goal requires the development of an address standard, enhancing processes to collect and store address data, creating audit controls, assigning the responsibility for this set of information and ensuring it is accessible to all stakeholders.
It is recommended to incorporate the address collection into your organization's master data management strategy. MDM manages a variety of different critical business data types including address data. Integrating your address verification API into your MDM allows you to update and clean data in real-time without manual effort.
To begin collecting and storing address data, you need to create an ArcGIS work assignment and add anyone responsible for verifying addresses in the field to the Address Assignments ArcGIS Workforce project with a Mobile Worker role. Then, they'll go out in the field and use the app to collect new addresses and verify the information collected from crowdsourced sources. Once they have completed the task they can upload their addresses to the office work assignment in order to have them added to the database and added to the authoritative layer of address information on a website.