ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government Address Collection
Address collection is an essential component of any plan to manage customer data. It ensures that the addresses in the company's database match those on customers documents that show proof of address like pay tax returns and stubs.
A centralized contact database can also be useful for sending out wedding invitations and holiday cards, as well as for managing other personal projects. Here are some tips for storing and organizing contacts in the most efficient method possible.
ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government
The ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government solution provides a suite of capabilities that aid in maintaining an authoritative address repository, continuously improve address data quality, 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 teams and other personnel responsible for the collection, maintenance and use of authoritative road centerlines, valid site addresses, and associated postal addresses. It also comes with a series of preconfigured ArcGIS Data Reviewer checks that can be used to confirm, maintain, and improve the integrity of address information.
Address data capture is the process of collecting the postal and site addresses for all buildings, 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 to the structure they are used for or a specific location within the boundaries of a parcel. A site address could be the entry point to a driveway which serves one or more houses on the parcel. Site addresses could also serve as a contact point for a service point like an emergency response station.
You can add one or more distinct postal addresses to a website address. Postal addresses are used to identify a building, or any other structure, and provide contact details for the owner or occupant. The site address feature classification and type schema is based on a status field that allows local governments to classify features as pending, temporary or even current.
Assume you are a supervisor for an addressing authority and your team is tasked to verify an incorrect address report from 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 then tap Edit. Enter the correct details for the address, including a street name and a municipality. Then, tap Submit (iOS) or the check mark (Android).
ArcGIS Pro Project
An ArcGIS Pro project provides a location to organize your work, store files, and use many tools and functions. A project can include a combination of maps, scenes, layers, and layouts that present your data in the way you prefer to view it. It could also include links to folders, databases and resources for importing and exporting data.
Each item in a Project has a set or metadata that describes it. A project's metadata can help you find items, assess them, and decide which ones are best to use for the task at hand. It can also be used to record the project's contents. A good example of metadata could be the description and name of a scene or map. You can edit 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 elements within the project (such as scenes and maps) can be incorporated into other projects. Project components (such a geodatabases or toolboxes) are also able to be moved from one location to another. In addition, many items can be accessed through connections without having to be stored in the project file.
The Project tab is located on the main page of ArcGIS Pro. You can select to open a recently completed project or create a completely new project by using templates. For example, you can create a new project by using the Map template, which opens with a map view that displays a topographic basemap.
You can save a project either to an area on your local computer or to a folder on your portal of choice. The default location for projects is C: Users username> Documents ArcGIS Projects. If you wish to save your project into an appropriate folder, you can look up the Create folder for this project in the New Project dialog.
It's a good idea to keep your data, ArcGIS Pro installation, and project files all on the same computer in order to cut down communication time. You might not be able to find all of these components on a single computer or you might prefer to share project files, data, and other files over the internet.
Data Assistant Add-in
The Data Assistant Addin is a collection of tools put together in the Data Assistant Toolbar. These tools enable you to create source and target configuration files, as well as load or replace data.
These tools, when used conjunction with the Community Data Aggregation Solution, allow staff to transform and load data sources into an aggregated layer for community use and automate updates on a regular basis. These tools allow you to personalize the solution for your particular organization.
To use 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 layers of the community. To download the add in, navigate 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. It is essential to close all open ArcGIS apps before you can start an entirely new ArcGIS Pro. Once you have installed the add-in you can start the add-in by clicking the Data Assistant icon in the ArcGIS Pro toolbar.
Once the Data Assistant Add-in has been activated, you can create an Data Mapping file by using the Configure Data Mapping dialog box. This allows you to define the mapping of fields and settings for a specific source-target configuration file. Once configured, online will replace data in the dataset target from the source layer according to the settings that you select. This tool lets you stage results locally and skip the final processing if you are only replacing data in a subset of records.
Data Management
Address data is essential for most businesses and has to be accurate, reliable and standardized. For example, whether it's routing mail, offering location services on a site or promoting to customers and prospects poor data can be devastating. It is essential to implement an address management system.
An address management system is a procedure to maintain a standard and verified set of addresses. It lets you manage your address database easily and ensure that it conforms to the national guidelines provided by the national postal authority of your country. It also allows you to verify and correct inaccurate addresses provided by external or internal stakeholders.
For example for instance, the USPS maintains a database of verified addresses and provides an official certification known as CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System). A modern solution like PostGrid is certified by CASS, which means that it can connect to the official USPS database to verify an address instantly. This can save you time and improve the quality of your data.
The solution to this issue is to create an authoritative address repository that supports various information needs and to continuously improve it by implementing data quality processes. To achieve this, you will need to develop an address standard, improve processes to store and capture data, create audit controls, establish the responsibility for this information, and ensure that it is accessible to all stakeholders.
A good approach is to incorporate the address collection process in your company's overall master data management strategy. MDM deals with a variety of different critical business data types, including 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 establishing an ArcGIS Work Assignment and adding any person who is accountable for verifying address 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 gather new addresses and verify crowdsourced data. Once they've completed their work, they can upload their addresses to the office work assignment in order to have them marked as incorporated and added to the authoritative site address layer.
