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ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government Address Collection

Address collection is an essential element of any management plan for customer data. This process ensures that the addresses on a company's database match proof of address records, such as tax stubs, pay stubs, or returns.

A central database for contacts can be used to manage personal projects like sending holiday cards or wedding invitations. Here are some suggestions for storing and organizing contact information in the most efficient method possible.

ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government

The ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government solution offers a suite of capabilities that assist in maintaining an authoritative address repository, continually improve the quality of address data and share authoritative addresses with both internal and external stakeholders. The solution comes with an application for ArcGIS Pro that is designed to be used by mapping crews as well as address verification teams and other individuals responsible for collecting, storing and using authoritative road centerlines and valid address data for sites. It also includes a preconfigured ArcGIS Data Reviewer check that can be used to validate maintaining and improving the integrity of address information.

Address data capture is the process of capturing the postal and site addresses for all buildings, sites, and structures that require an identification number. This information is essential for the creation of a road and street network that promotes secure and efficient commerce.

The Address Data Management task allows you to create a new address for your site feature by following the steps of the Add Site Addresses task. Site addresses are specific to the structure they are serving or a specific location within the boundaries of a parcel. A site address may be the entrance to a driveway which serves one or more houses on a parcel. The address of the site could also be a point of contact for a service delivery location, such as a fire station.

You can add one or more distinct postal addresses to a site address. Postal addresses serve to identify a building or other structure and provide contact details for the owner or the occupant. The type of feature for site addresses and classification schema is based upon a status field that lets local authorities to categorize their features into pending, temporary or current.

Assume that you are a supervisor at an address authority and your team is tasked to verify an incorrect address report provided by an external stakeholder. By using the ArcGIS Workforce app, open the Address Field Inventory map and look up the address in question. Select the missing point of address and then tap Edit. Enter the correct information for the address, including the name of the street 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 give you access to a variety of tools and functions. A project can include an array of maps, scenes layouts, layers, and layers that present your data in the way you would like to see it. It can also include connections to databases, folders, and resources for importing or exporting data.

Each item in a project includes a set of attributes that describe it, or its metadata. A project's metadata can help you identify items, assess them, and determine which ones are the best to apply to your current task. It can be used to record the contents of a project. One example of metadata would be the name and description of a scene or map. You can edit the metadata for each item within a project by clicking the Properties button on the toolbar or in the Details window.


ArcGIS Pro projects are reusable--the objects in them (such as scenes and maps) can be transferred to other projects. Project components (such toolboxes or geodatabases), can also be moved from one location to another. Additionally, many items can be accessed via connections without being stored within the project file.

When  링크모음  start ArcGIS Pro, the Project tab is displayed on the home page. It offers options to open a recent project or create a new project from an existing template. For instance, you can create a new project by using the Map template, which opens with a map view that displays an elevation basemap.

You can save your project to either the local computer or to the active portal. The default project location is C: Users username> Documents ArcGIS Projects. If you wish to save your project into a folder, you can search for the Create folder for this project on the New Project dialog.

If possible, it's a good practice to locate your data, ArcGIS Pro installations, and project files on the same machine to speed up round-trip communication. It's possible to find all of these components on one machine or you may prefer to share data, project files and other resources via networks.

Data Assistant Add-in

The Data Assistant Add-in provides a set of focused tools organized on a Data Assistant toolbar. These tools allow you to create source-target configuration file and load or replace data.

These tools, when used conjunction the Community Data Aggregation Solution, allow staff to transform and load data sources into an aggregated layer for community use and automate updates on a regular basis. Using these tools, you can configure the solution to meet the specific requirements of your company.

Install the Data Assistant Addin on each ArcGIS Pro computer that will be used to migrate data to one or more layers of community. To download the add in go to the Content section of ArcGIS and click on the Data Assistant item.

Follow the steps for installation after the add-in is downloaded. It is essential to close all open ArcGIS apps before you can start a new ArcGIS Pro. Once you have installed the add-in you can open the add-in by clicking the Data Assistant icon in the ArcGIS Pro toolbar.

You can create a Data Mapping File by using the Configure Data Mapping Dialog Box when the Data Assistant Addin is started. This dialog box lets you to define the field mapping and settings for a source-target configuration. Once it is configured, the Replace Data tool will replace the data in the target layer from the source layer in accordance with the settings you have selected. This tool also has the ability to stage results in a local database and skip the final processing by replacing data only on a small subset of records.

Data Management

Address data is essential for most businesses and has to be reliable, accurate, and standardized. Whether it is for routing mail, providing location services on a website, or marketing to customers and prospects, bad data can be disastrous. It is therefore vital to implement an address management system.

An address management system is a procedure to maintain a uniform and verified list of addresses. It allows you to effortlessly manage your address database and ensure that it conforms to the guidelines of the national postal authority of your country. It allows you to validate or correct any incorrect information about addresses that is provided by external or internal stakeholders.

For instance, the USPS maintains a database of verified addresses and provides a certification called CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System). An advanced solution like PostGrid is certified by CASS which means it is able to connect to the official USPS database to instantly verify an address. This will help you save time and improve data quality.

The solution to this issue is to build an authoritative address repository that supports various information needs and to continuously improve it through data quality processes. To achieve this goal, you must development of an address standard, optimizing processes to collect and store address data, creating audit controls, assigning the ownership of this data set and ensuring that it is available to all parties.

A good approach is to integrate the process of collecting addresses into your overall master data management strategy. MDM manages a variety of critical business data types including address data. By connecting your address verification API with your MDM it is possible to update and cleanse the data in real-time without the need for manual intervention.

You can begin collecting and managing addresses by establishing an ArcGIS Work Assignment and adding the person responsible for verifying address information in the field by granting them a Mobile Worker Role to the Address Assignments ArcGIS Workforce Project. They will then be able to go out in the field to collect new addresses and verify the data collected by crowdsourcing. After they've completed the task, they can add their addresses to the office work assignment to get them added to the database and incorporated in the authoritative layer of site addresses.