ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government Address Collection
Address collection is a critical element of any plan for managing customer data. This process ensures that addresses in the company's database correspond to addresses on customers documents that show proof of address, such as pay statements and tax returns.
A central contact database can also be useful for sending out wedding invitations and holiday cards and also for managing other personal projects. Here are some tips for collecting and organizing contact information in the easiest way possible.
ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government
The ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government solution offers an array of capabilities to help maintain 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 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, maintaining and using authoritative road centerlines as well as valid site addresses. It also includes a preconfigured ArcGIS Data Reviewer check that can be used to validate, maintaining, and improving the accuracy of address information.
Address data capture is the process of collecting the postal and site addresses for all structures or structures, sites, and buildings that require an identification number. This information is essential to the development of a road and street network that promotes safe and efficient commerce.
By following the steps of the Add Site Addresses Task you can build a new feature within the Address Data Management task. Site addresses are unique to the location or structure they serve within the parcel. A site address could be the entrance to a driveway that serves one or more houses on a parcel. The address could also be a point of contact for a service delivery location, such as an emergency response station.
When adding a new site address, you can optionally join one or more distinct postal addresses to it. Postal addresses are used to identify a structure, or other structure and provide contact details for the owner or the occupant. The site address feature classification and type schema is dependent on a status field that allows local governments to classify features as temporary, pending or even current.
Imagine that you are a supervisor within an addressing authority, and your team has been assigned to investigate an incorrect address report that was supplied by an outside stakeholder. By using the ArcGIS Workforce app, open the Address Field Inventory map and look up the address in the report in question. Select the address that is missing and then tap Edit. Enter the correct address details, including the street name and municipality. Tap Submit (iOS) or the checkmark (Android).
ArcGIS Pro Project
An ArcGIS Pro project provides a space to organize your work, store files, and use various tools and features. A project could be the combination of maps, scenes layouts, layers, and layers which display your data the way you prefer to view it. It can also include connections to databases, folders, and resources to import or export data.
Discover More in a Project is accompanied by metadata that describes it. The metadata of a project can help you identify items, analyze them, and determine which ones are suitable to apply to your current task. It can be used to record a project's content. One example of metadata would be the name and description of a map or scene. The Properties button on the toolbar, or in the Details window, enables you to edit the metadata of each item in the Project.
ArcGIS Pro is reusable. The project's components (such as maps and scenes) can be copied into other projects. Project components (such toolboxes or geodatabases) are also able to be transferred from one location to another. Additionally, many items can be accessed using connections without being stored in the project file.
When you launch ArcGIS Pro, the Project tab will be displayed on the home page. It offers options to open a new project or create a new project using a template. For instance, you could create a new project by using the Map template which opens with a map view that displays the topography of the basemap.
You can save a project to the local computer or to a folder on your portal that is active. The default location for projects is C: Users username> Documents ArcGIS Projects. If you want to save your project in a folder, you can search for the Create folder for this project on the New Project dialog.
It's a good idea to keep your data, ArcGIS Pro installation, and project files all on the same computer to cut down on the time spent communicating. You might not be able to locate all of these components on one computer or you might prefer to share files, data, and other files over the internet.
Data Assistant Add-in
The Data Assistant Add-in provides a set of focused tools organized on the Data Assistant toolbar. These tools allow you to create source-target configuration file and load or replace data.
These tools, when utilized in combination with the Community Data Aggregation Solution, allow staff to transform and load sources of data into a layer for a community and automate updates on a regular base. These tools allow you to modify the solution to fit your organization.
Install the Data Assistant add-in on each ArcGIS Pro computer that will be used for data migration to one or more layers of community. To download the add-in for free, go to the Content section of your ArcGIS organization and click the Data Assistant item.
After the add-in has been downloaded Follow the installation instructions to install it. After installing, close all open ArcGIS applications prior to opening a new ArcGIS Pro session. Once the add-in is installed, you are able to start it by clicking on the Data Assistant icon located 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 activated. This dialog box lets you to define the field mapping and the settings of a source-target configuration. Once configured the Replace Data tool will replace the data in the target layer from the source layer based on the settings you have selected. This tool allows you to stage results locally and skip final processing if you just replace data in a subset of records.
Data Management
Address data is essential for the majority of companies. It has to be accurate and reliable as well as standardized. Bad data can have disastrous impacts, whether it's routing mail or location services on a site, or marketing to clients and prospects. This is the reason it's vital that all businesses implement an effective system for managing addresses.
A system to manage addresses is a method to keep a standard and verified list of addresses. It lets you easily maintain your address database and ensure that it is in line with the guidelines of the national postal authority of your country. It also allows you to validate and correct erroneous addresses provided by internal or external stakeholders.
For example, the USPS maintains a database of verified addresses, and also provides the certification CASS (Coding Accuracy Support 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 verify an address instantly. This will save you time and improve data quality.
The solution to this issue is to create 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 data, developing audit controls, establishing the responsibility for this set of information and ensuring that it is available to all parties.
An effective approach is to incorporate the address collection process into your organization's overall master data management strategy. MDM handles a range of business data types such as address data. Integrating your address verification API into your MDM allows you to update and clean data in real time without any manual effort.
You can begin collecting and managing addresses by creating an ArcGIS Work Assignment and adding any person who is responsible for verifying address information in the field by granting them a Mobile Worker Role to the Address Assignments ArcGIS Workforce Project. They can then go in the field to collect new addresses, and verify the data collected by crowdsourcing. Once they've completed the task they can add their addresses to the office work assignment to have them added to the database and added to the authoritative site address layer.