ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government Address Collection
Address collection is an essential component 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 like pay statements and tax returns.
A central database of contacts can also be used to manage personal projects, such as sending holiday cards or wedding invitations. Here are some ideas on how to collect and organize contact information in the most efficient way you can.
ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government
The ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government solution provides an array of capabilities to assist in maintaining an authoritative address repository, continually improve address data quality, and share authoritative addresses with internal and external stakeholders. The solution comes with an application for ArcGIS Pro that is designed to be used by mapping crews, address verification teams, and other personnel responsible for collecting, maintaining and utilizing authoritative road centerlines and valid site addresses. It also includes a preconfigured ArcGIS Data Reviewer check that can be used to verify maintaining, enhancing, and confirming the integrity of address information.
Address data capture is a method that involves the collection of site and postal addresses for all buildings, structures, and sites that require an identification number. It is a necessary step towards the creation of an authoritative road and street network that enables secure and efficient trade and service delivery.
By following the steps of the Add Site Addresses Task You can create a new feature within the Address Data Management task. Site addresses are specific to the structure they are serving or a specific area within the parcel. For example an address on a site could be an entrance point for a driveway that serves one or more homes on the same parcel. The address of the site could also serve as a contact point for a service location like an emergency response station.
When talks about it add a new site address, you are able to join one or more distinct postal addresses with it. Postal addresses serve to identify a structure, or any other structure, and provide contact information for the owner or occupant. The site address feature classification and type schema is based on a status field which allows local governments to categorize features as temporary, pending or even current.
Assume that you are a supervisor of an address authority, and your team is assigned to investigate 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 missing address and then tap Edit. Enter the correct address details including the street's name and the city. 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 access various tools and functionality. A project could comprise of maps, scenes layers, layouts, and layers to display your data the way you prefer. It may also include links to folders, databases and resources for importing and exporting data.
Each item in a project has a set of attributes that define it, or its metadata. The metadata of a project can help you find items, evaluate them, and decide which ones are best to use for your current task. It can also be used to record the project's contents. Metadata can be used to describe a map, or a scene. You can modify the metadata for each item within an application by clicking the Properties button on the toolbar or in the Details window.
ArcGIS Pro projects are reusable--the objects in them (such as maps and scenes) can be transferred to other projects. Also project components (such as geodatabases and toolboxes) can be moved or renamed from one location to another. In addition, many items can be accessed using connections without having to be stored within the project file.
The Project tab is located on the home page of ArcGIS Pro. You can choose to open a newly completed project or create a completely new project using templates. For instance, you could create a new project using the Map template that opens with a map that shows an elevation basemap.
You can save a project either 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 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.
When possible, it's good practice to locate your data, ArcGIS Pro installations, and project files on the same computer to speed up round-trip communication. 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 a network.
Data Assistant Add-in
The Data Assistant Add-in provides a set of focused tools organized on a Data Assistant toolbar. These tools allow you to create source and target configuration files, as well as load and replace data.
When combined 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 organization.
To utilize the Data Assistant Add-in you must install it on every ArcGIS Pro machine that will be used to transfer data to one or more layer in the community. To download the add-in for free, go to the Content section of your ArcGIS organization and click the Data Assistant item.
Once the add-in is downloaded Follow the installation instructions to install it. You must close all open ArcGIS apps before you can start a new ArcGIS Pro. Once installed you can start the add-in by clicking on the Data Assistant icon in the ArcGIS Pro toolbar.
You can create an Data Mapping File by using the Configure Data Mapping Dialog Box once the Data Assistant Addin has been activated. This lets you define the mapping of fields and settings for a chosen source-target configuration file. Once you have it set, you can run the Replace Data tool to replace data in the target dataset from the source layer based on the settings you have selected. This tool also has the capability to store results in local databases and avoid the final process by replacing data only on a subset of records.
Data Management
Address data is critical to most businesses and needs to be accurate, reliable, and standardized. Bad data can have disastrous effects, whether it's for routing mail or location services on a site or for marketing to customers and potential customers. This is why it's essential that every business implements an effective system for managing addresses.
An address management system is a procedure to maintain a standard and verified list of addresses. It allows you to manage your address database easily and ensure that it is in line with the guidelines of the postal authority of your country. It lets you validate or correct any incorrect information about addresses provided by internal or external stakeholders.
For instance for instance, the USPS maintains a database of verified addresses and provides a certification called CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System). An advanced solution like PostGrid is certified by CASS which means it is able to 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 support diverse information needs, and continually improving it by implementing data quality processes. To achieve this goal, you must creation of an address standard, enhancing processes to capture and store address data, developing audit controls, establishing the responsibility for this set of information and ensuring it is accessible to all parties.
A good idea is to integrate the process of collecting addresses into your organization's overall master data management strategy. MDM is an application that handles numerous types of vital business data, including address data. By connecting your address verification API into your MDM it is possible to clean and update the data in real-time without 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. When they're done, they can upload addresses back to the work assignment in the office to have them added to the authoritative site address layer and marked incorporated.