ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government Address Collection
Address collection is an essential aspect of any plan to manage customer data. The process ensures that addresses in the database of the company are in line with those on the customers' proof of address documents, such as pay tax returns and stubs.
A central database for contacts can be used to manage personal projects, such as sending holiday cards or wedding invitations. Here are some suggestions for collecting and organizing contact information in the easiest way you can.
ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government
The ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government solution provides a set of capabilities that help maintain an authoritative address repository, continuously improve the quality of address data and share authoritative addresses with internal and external stakeholders. The solution comes with an ArcGIS Pro project designed to be used by mapping technicians, address verification crews and other personnel responsible for the gathering, maintenance, and use of road centerlines that are authoritative, valid site addresses, and associated postal addresses. It also comes with a series of preconfigured ArcGIS Data Re view er checks that can be used to confirm, maintain, and improve the integrity of address data.
Address data capture is a method that consists of the collection of postal and site addresses for all structures, buildings and sites that require an identification number. It is a crucial step towards the creation of an authoritative road and street network that enables safe and efficient trade and service delivery.
The Address Data Management task allows you to create a new address for your site feature by following the steps in the Add Site Addresses task. Site addresses are unique for the location or structure they serve within the boundaries of a parcel. For example, a site address may be an entrance point for a driveway that serves one or more houses on the same parcel. The site address may also be a point of contact for a delivery point, such as the fire station.
When adding a new site address, you are able to join one or more distinct postal addresses to it. Postal addresses are linked to buildings or other structures and provide contact information for the owner or occupant. The site address feature type and classification schema is based upon the status field, which allows local authorities to categorize their features into temporary, pending or current.
Imagine that you are a supervisor within an address authority and your team has been given the task of confirming an incorrect address report that was submitted by an outside stakeholder. Utilizing the ArcGIS Workforce app, open the Address Field Inventory map and look up the address in the query. Select the address that is missing and then click Edit. Enter the correct details for the address, including a street name and municipality. Tap Submit (iOS) or the checkmark (Android).
ArcGIS Pro Project
ArcGIS Pro projects allow you to organize and save your work. They also give you access to a range of tools and features. A project can be an array of maps, scenes, layers, and layouts that display your data as you would like to see it. It may include hyperlinks to databases, folders and resources for importing and exporting data.
Every item in a project includes a set of metadata that describes the item. The metadata of a project will help you find items, analyze and decide which ones are suitable for your particular task. It can be used to document the content of a project. A good example of metadata could be the description and name of a map or 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 is reusable. The project's components (such as scenes and maps) can be incorporated into other projects. Project components (such a geodatabases or toolboxes), can also be moved from one location to another. Additionally, many items can be accessed using connections without having to be stored within the project file.
The Project tab appears on the main page of ArcGIS Pro. You can select to open a recently completed project or create a new project using templates. For instance, you can create a new project using the Map template which opens with a map view showing an elevation basemap.
You can save your project either to an individual folder on your local computer or to the portal that is active. The default location for projects is C: Users username> Documents ArcGIS Projects. If you choose to save the project to a folder, you can check the Create a folder for this local project check box on the New Project dialog box.
If you can, it's a best practice to store your data, ArcGIS Pro installations, and project files on the same machine to cut down on round-trip time for communication. In some cases however, it's impossible to find these components on the same computer, or you might prefer to share your data, project files, and other resources across the network.
Data Assistant Add-in
The Data Assistant Addin is a collection of tools that are put together in the Data Assistant Toolbar. These tools let you create source-target configuration files and load or replace data.
These tools, when used in conjunction with the Community Data Aggregation Solution, enable staff to transform and load sources of data into an aggregated layer for community use and schedule automated updates on a regular basis. These tools let you personalize the solution for your organization.
Install the Data Assistant Add-in on each ArcGIS Pro computer that will be used to migrate data to one or more layers of community. To download the add in, navigate to the Content section of ArcGIS and click on the Data Assistant item.
After the add-in has been downloaded Follow the installation instructions to install it. After installation, you must close all open ArcGIS applications prior to opening another ArcGIS Pro session. After the add-in has been installed, you can start it by clicking on the Data Assistant icon located in the ArcGIS Pro Toolbar.
After the Data Assistant Add-in is launched it is possible to create an Data Mapping file by using the Configure Data Mapping dialog box. This dialog box lets you to define the field mapping and settings of a source-target configuration. Once configured, you can run the Replace Data tool to replace data in the target dataset from the source layer according to the selected setting. This tool lets you stage results locally and skip final processing if you just replace data on a subset of records.
Data Management
Address data is essential for most businesses. It should be precise and reliable, as well as standardized. Whether it is for routing mail, offering location services on a site or promoting to prospects and customers poor data can be disastrous. This is why it's essential to ensure that all businesses have an effective system for managing addresses.
An address management system is a procedure to maintain a standard and validated set of addresses. It lets you manage your address database easily and ensure that it conforms to the guidelines set by the national postal authority of your country. It lets you verify or correct inaccurate address information that is provided by external or internal stakeholders.
For example the USPS maintains a list of verified addresses and offers the certification CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System). A more sophisticated solution such as PostGrid is certified by CASS that means it can connect to the official USPS database to instantly verify an address. This will help you save time and improve the quality of your data.
This issue can be resolved by establishing an authoritative address repository to accommodate a variety of information needs, and continually improving its data quality through processes. This requires the creation of an address standard, enhancing processes to capture and store address information, establishing audit controls, establishing the responsibility for this set of information and ensuring it is accessible to all stakeholders.
It is a good idea to integrate the address collection into your organization's master data management strategy. MDM is a tool that deals with various types of crucial business data, including address information. Integrating your address verification API with your MDM allows you to clean and update data in real-time without any manual effort.
You can begin collecting and managing addresses by creating an ArcGIS Work Assignment and adding anyone responsible for verifying address in the field using 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 crowdsourced data. After they're completed, they can upload addresses to the office assigned to them at the office to have them incorporated into the authoritative site address layer and marked as incorporated.