ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government Address Collection
Address collection is a critical element of any plan for managing customer data. The process makes sure that the addresses in a company's database match proof of address records, such as pay stubs or tax returns.
A central database for contacts can also be used to manage personal projects like sending out holiday cards and wedding invitations. Here are some suggestions 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 offers a range of capabilities that allow you to maintain a repository of authoritative addresses as well as enhance the quality of the data on addresses and share authoritative addresses with external and internal stakeholders. The solution comes with an ArcGIS Pro project designed to be utilized by mapping technicians, address verification crews and other staff responsible for the collection, maintenance, and use of authoritative road centerlines and valid site addresses and associated postal addresses. It also includes 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 buildings as well as structures, sites and structures that require an identification number. This information is essential for the creation of a street and road network that facilitates secure and efficient commerce.
The Address Data Management task lets you create a brand new site address feature by following the steps of the Add Site Addresses task. Site addresses are unique for the structure or location they serve within a parcel. A site address may be the entrance to a driveway which serves one or more houses on the parcel. Site addresses could also serve as a contact point for a service center such as a fire station.
You can add one or more distinct postal addresses to a site address. Postal addresses are associated with buildings or other structures and provide contact information for its owner or its occupant. The site address feature classification and type schema is based on a status field which permits local authorities to classify features as temporary, pending or current.
Imagine you are a supervisor for an address authority, and your team is given the task of confirming an incorrect address report supplied by an external stakeholder. Open the Address Field Inventory map in the ArcGIS Workforce App and search for the address. Select the missing address point and tap Edit. Enter the correct information for the address, which includes a street name and municipality. Tap Submit (iOS), or the checkmark (Android).
ArcGIS Pro Project
An ArcGIS Pro project provides a place for you to organize your work, save files, and use many tools and features. A project can be the combination of scenes, maps, layers, and layouts which display your data the way you prefer to view it. It can also include connections to folders, databases, and resources for exporting or importing data.
Each item in a Project has a set or metadata that describes the item. The metadata of a project can help you find items, assess them, and decide which ones are best to use for the task at hand. It can be used to record the content of a project. A good example of metadata could be the name and description of a scene or map. By clicking the Properties button on the toolbar, or the Details window, allows you to edit the metadata for each item in a Project.
relevant resource site is reusable. The items within the project (such as scenes and maps) can be transferred to other projects. Also, components of the project (such as geodatabases and toolboxes) can be moved or changed from one location to another. Many of the items can be accessed through connections without having to save them in the project file.
When you start ArcGIS Pro, the Project tab is displayed on the home page. It offers options to open a recent project or create a brand new project from a template. You can create a new project by using the Map template. This opens a map with a topographic basemap.
You can save your project to a location on your local computer or to a folder in your active portal. The default location for projects is C: Users username> Documents ArcGIS Projects. If you decide to save the project to an appropriate folder, you can select the Create a folder for this local project check box on the New Project dialog box.
If possible, it's a best practice to store your data, ArcGIS Pro installations, and project files on the same computer to cut down on round-trip time for communication. In some cases however, it's impossible to find these components on the same machine, or you may prefer to share your data, project files and other resources on the network.
Data Assistant Add-in
The Data Assistant Add-in provides a set of tools that are focused and arranged on a Data Assistant toolbar. These tools let you create sources and target configuration files as well as load and replace data.
These tools, when utilized in combination with the Community Data Aggregation Solution, enable staff to transform and load sources of data into a layer for a community and schedule automated updates on a regular basis. These tools allow you to modify the solution to fit your particular organization.
To utilize the Data Assistant Add-in, you must install it on every ArcGIS Pro machine that will be used to migrate data to one or more layer in the community. To download the add-in go to the Content section of ArcGIS and click on the Data Assistant item.
Follow the instructions for installation after the add-in has been downloaded. After installation, you must close any open ArcGIS applications before opening another ArcGIS Pro session. After the add-in has been installed, you can open it by clicking on the Data Assistant icon located in the ArcGIS Pro Toolbar.
You can create an Data Mapping File by using the Configure Data Mapping Dialog Box after the Data Assistant Addin is launched. This dialog box allows you to define the field mapping and settings for the source-target configuration. Once set the Replace Data tool will replace the data in the target layer from the source layer in accordance with the settings selected. This tool also supports the capability to store results in local databases and skip the final process by replacing data only on a small subset of records.
Data Management
Address data is crucial to most businesses and needs to be reliable, accurate, and standardized. Whether it is for routing mail, offering location services on a website or promoting to prospects and customers poor data can be disastrous. This is why it's crucial that every business implements an effective system for managing addresses.
A system for managing addresses is a method to maintain a consistent and verified list of addresses. It allows you to keep your address database up-to current and ensures that it is in line with national guidelines, like the ones provided by your national postal authority of your country. It also allows you to verify and correct inaccurate address information submitted by internal or external stakeholders.
USPS, for example, maintains a database of verified addresses. It also offers an accreditation known as CASS (Coding Accuracy System). Solutions that are CASS-certified such as PostGrid can connect directly to the official USPS database and instantly verify an address. This will save time and increase accuracy of data.
This problem can be solved by creating an authoritative address repository to meet the needs of a variety of information requirements and continuously improving its data quality through processes. Achieving this goal requires the development of an address standard, enhancing processes to collect and store address data, creating audit controls, assigning ownership over this information set and ensuring it is available to all parties.
An effective approach is to incorporate the process of collecting addresses in your company's overall master data management strategy. MDM deals with a variety of critical business data types, including address data. By connecting your address verification API with your MDM you can cleanse and update the data in real-time without the need for manual effort.
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 with a Mobile Worker Role to the Address Assignments ArcGIS Workforce Project. They will then be able to go out into the field to collect new addresses, and then verify the data collected by crowdsourcing. Once they've completed their work they can add their addresses to the office work assignment in order to have them added to the database and incorporated in the authoritative layer of site addresses.