ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government Address Collection
Address collection is an essential component of any plan for customer data management. The process makes sure that the addresses in a company's database match proof of address records, such as tax stubs and pay returns.
A central contact database can also be useful for sending out wedding invitations and holiday cards as well as managing other personal projects. Here are some tips to collect and organize contact information in the most efficient method possible.
ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government
The ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government solution provides a set of capabilities that aid in maintaining an authoritative address repository, continuously improve the quality of data on addresses and share authoritative addresses with both 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. It also includes preconfigured ArcGIS Data Reviewer check that can be used for validating, maintaining, and improving the accuracy of address information.
Address data capture is a process that involves the collection of site and postal addresses for all structures, buildings, and sites that require an identification number. Capturing this information is an essential step towards the creation of a credible street and road network that ensures safe and efficient commerce and service delivery.
The Address Data Management task lets you create a new site address feature by following the steps in the Add Site Addresses task. Site addresses are unique to the structure they are serving or a specific location within the boundaries of a parcel. A site address could be the entrance to a driveway which serves one or more houses on the parcel. Site addresses could also serve as a point of contact for a service location like an emergency response station.
When you create a new website address, you can optionally join one or more distinct postal addresses to it. Postal addresses are associated with a building or other structures and provide contact information for its owner or its occupant. The site address feature classification and type schema is dependent on a status field that permits local governments to classify features as pending, temporary or current.
Assume that you are a supervisor of an addressing authority and your team is assigned to verify an incorrect address report received from an external stakeholder. Open the Address Field Inventory map in the ArcGIS Workforce App and search for the address. Select the address that is not in the map and then tap Edit. Enter the correct details for the address, which includes the name of the street and the municipality. Then tap Submit (iOS) or the check mark (Android).
ArcGIS Pro Project
An ArcGIS Pro project provides a place for you to organize your work, save files, and use a variety of tools and functionality. A project could be the combination of maps, scenes layers, and layouts which display your data the way you want to view it. It can also include connections to folders, databases and other resources for importing or exporting data.
Each item in a project has a set of attributes that define it or its metadata. Metadata for a project can help you find items, evaluate them, and determine which ones are the best to use for your current task. It can be used to document the contents of a project. Metadata can be used to describe a map or an entire scene. You can modify 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 items in them (such as maps and scenes) can be copied to other projects. Project components (such a geodatabases or toolboxes) can also be transferred from one location to another. Many of the items can be accessed via connections without having to store 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. You can create a project by using the Map template. This opens a map that has an topographic basemap.
You can save your project to an individual folder on your local computer, or to the active portal. The default project location is C: Users username> Documents ArcGIS Projects. If you would like to save your project into an appropriate folder, you can look up the Create folder for this project from the New Project dialog.
It's a good idea to keep your data, ArcGIS Pro installation, and project files on the same computer to reduce the time spent communicating. In some cases however, you may not be able to locate these components on the same machine, or you may prefer to share your data, project files and other resources over the network.
Data Assistant Add-in
The Data Assistant Addin is a collection of tools that are organized into the Data Assistant Toolbar. These tools let you create the source and target configuration files as well as load or replace data.
When used in conjunction with the Community Data Aggregation solution These tools allow the employees of the organization to transform and load data sources into a community layer, and schedule automatic updates to that layer on a regular basis. These tools let you personalize the solution for your particular organization.
Install click through the up coming page on each ArcGIS Pro computer that will be used for data migration 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.
Once the add-in is downloaded Follow the installation instructions to install it. It is essential to close all open ArcGIS applications before you start an entirely new ArcGIS Pro. After the add-in has been installed, you can open it by clicking on the Data Assistant icon located in the ArcGIS Pro Toolbar.
After the Data Assistant Add-in is installed and you are able to create the Data Mapping file by using the Configure Data Mapping dialog box. This lets you define field mappings and settings for a chosen source-target configuration file. Once it is configured the Replace Data tool will replace data in the dataset target from the source layer based on the settings that you select. This tool allows you to stage results locally and avoid final processing if you only replace data in a subset of records.
Data Management
Address data is essential for most businesses. It should be precise, reliable and standardized. Unreliable data can cause disastrous effects, whether it's for routing mail, location services on a site or for marketing to clients and prospects. This is the reason it's vital that all businesses implement an effective system for managing addresses.
An address management system is a method to maintain a uniform and validated set of addresses. It allows you to easily maintain your address database and ensure that it conforms to the guidelines set by the postal authority of your country. It also lets you verify and correct incorrect address information provided by internal or external stakeholders.
USPS, for example maintains a database with verified addresses. It also provides a certification known as CASS (Coding Accuracy System). A more sophisticated solution such as PostGrid is certified by CASS that means it is able to connect to the official USPS database to instantly verify an address. This can save you time and improve the quality of your data.
The solution to this problem is to build an authoritative address repository that meets diverse information needs and continuously improve it by implementing data quality processes. Achieving this goal requires the creation of an address standard, enhancing processes to collect and store address information, establishing audit controls, assigning ownership over this information set, and ensuring that it is available to all stakeholders.
An effective approach is to incorporate the process of collecting addresses into your organization's overall master data management strategy. MDM is a tool that deals with numerous types of vital business data, including address data. By integrating your address verification API into your MDM it is possible to update and cleanse the data in real time, without the need for manual intervention.
To begin collecting and managing address information To begin, you must create an ArcGIS work assignment and add anyone responsible for checking addresses in the field to the Address Assignments ArcGIS Workforce project with a Mobile Worker role. Then, they'll travel out into the field and use the application to gather new addresses and verify information from crowdsourced sources. After they're done, they can upload addresses to the office assigned to them at the office to have them incorporated into the authoritative layer of site addresses and marked as incorporated.