Configuring geocoding to use attribute values

You can configure the geocoding service to look for addresses in one or more attribute values. By default, Analyst's Notebook Connector for Esri detects attributes with the same names as the geocoding service parameters.

Procedure

To specify which attributes to use when geocoding addresses:
  1. On the Geocoding page of the Data Sources task pane, select a geocoding service and click Configure Selected Geocoding Service.
  2. On the Attribute Values page of the Geocoding Service Configuration window, select the Use attribute values for geocoding check box.
  3. The Geocoding Parameter column contains all the available parameters on the geocoding service. To specify an address part to use for a specific parameter, select a row in the table. For each address part, you can specify a semantic type, an attribute name, or to ignore that parameter. Select each row of the table in turn to specify the attribute.
    • To specify which semantic types to use, select Semantic type, and then from the Semantic type list, click Browse, and select a semantic type.

      If the specified semantic type does not exist on the current chart, "missing semantic type" is displayed in the Source column.

    • As an alternative to the default attribute classes, you can configure Analyst's Notebook Connector for Esri to use addresses from other attribute classes. To specify an attribute class to use, select Name, and then from the Name list, select an attribute class name.

      If the specified attribute class does not exist on the current chart, the source name is displayed in red in the Source column.

      For example, the four attribute classes Address 1, Address 2, Address 3, and Address 4 might contain the four lines of an address:
      Source Geocoding parameter
      Address 1 Street or Intersection
      Address 2 City or Placename
      Address 3 State
      Address 4 ZIP Code
    • To ignore a geocoding parameter, select Ignore parameter. <ignore> is displayed in the Source column.
    Note:
    "*" in the Geocoding Parameter column indicates that it is a mandatory parameter.
  4. Optional: To reset the settings for attributes back to their default values, click Reset.