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ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government Address Collection
Address collection is an essential element of any customer data management plan. The process ensures that addresses in the company's database correspond to addresses on customers documents that show proof of address, such as pay stubs and tax returns.
A central contact database can also be used to manage personal projects, like sending holiday cards or wedding invitations. Here are some suggestions on how to collect and organize contact information in the most straightforward way possible.
ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government
The ArcGIS Solutions for State and Local Government solution offers a suite of capabilities that assist in maintaining an authoritative address repository, continuously improve the quality of data on addresses and share authoritative addresses with both internal and external stakeholders. The solution includes an application for ArcGIS Pro that is designed to be used by mapping crews and address verification teams and other individuals who are responsible for collecting, maintaining and using authoritative road centerlines and valid site addresses. It also includes a preconfigured ArcGIS Data Reviewer check that can be used for validating maintaining, enhancing, and confirming the accuracy of address information.
Address data capture is a process that involves the gathering of site and postal addresses for all buildings, structures, and sites that require a unique identification number. The capture of this information is a necessary step in the development of a reliable street and road network that supports safe and efficient trade and service delivery.
The Address Data Management task lets you create a new site address feature by following the steps of the Add Site Addresses task. Site addresses are unique to the specific structure or location they serve within the boundaries of a parcel. A site address could be the entry point to a driveway which serves one or more houses on a parcel. The site address may also be a point of contact for a service delivery location, such as the fire station.
You can add one or more distinct postal addresses to an address. Postal addresses are used to identify a building, or other structure and provide contact details for the owner or the person who occupies it. The site address feature classification and type schema is based on a status field which allows local governments to classify features as pending, temporary, or current.
Assume that you are a supervisor for an address authority, and your team is tasked to verify 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 click Edit. Enter the correct details for the address, including a street name and 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 access many tools and functions. A project can be an array of maps, scenes layouts, layers, and layers that display your data as you want to view it. It can also include connections to databases, folders and other resources for exporting or importing data.
Every item in a project is accompanied by metadata that describes the item. The metadata of a project can help you locate items, analyze them, and determine which ones are best to use for the task at hand. It can also be used to document the project's contents. Metadata can be used to describe a map or an entire scene. You can edit the metadata for each item within an application 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. Additionally project components (such as toolboxes and geodatabases) can be moved or changed from one location to another. Additionally, many of the items can be accessed through connections without being stored in the project file.
The Project tab is on the home page of ArcGIS Pro. You can choose to open a newly completed project or create a brand new project by using a template. You can create a project by using the Map template. This opens a map that has an topographic 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 would like to save your project in an appropriate folder, you can look up the Create folder for this project from the New Project dialog.
If possible, it's a recommended to keep your data, ArcGIS Pro installations, and project files on the same computer to reduce round-trip communication time. In some cases, however, you can't locate these components on the same machine, or you may want to share your project files, data and other resources over a network.
Data Assistant Add-in
The Data Assistant Addin is a collection of tools that are put together in a Data Assistant Toolbar. These tools allow you to create sources and target configuration files, as well as load or replace data.
When combined with the Community Data Aggregation solution they allow your organization staff to transform and load data sources into a community layer and then schedule automated updates to the layer on a regular basis. love it let you customize the solution for your organization.
Install the Data Assistant Addin on each ArcGIS Pro computer that will be used for data migration to one or more layers of community. To download the add-in, go to the Content section of your ArcGIS organization and click the Data Assistant item.
After the add-in has been downloaded, follow the installation instructions to install it. After installing, you must close all 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 once the Data Assistant Addin has been started. This dialog box allows you to define the field mapping and the settings of the source-target configuration. Once the configuration file is set you can then run the Replace Data tool to replace data in the target dataset from the source layer according to the selected setting. This tool allows you to stage results locally and skip the final processing if you just replace data on a subset of records.
Data Management
Address data is crucial for the majority of businesses. It should be precise, reliable and standardized. For example, whether it's routing mail, providing location services on a site, or marketing to prospects and customers, bad data can be devastating. Therefore, it is crucial that companies implement an address management system.
A system to manage addresses is a way to keep a standard and verified list of addresses. It assists you in keeping your address database up-to date and ensure that it complies with the national guidelines, for instance those set by the country's national postal authority. It also lets you verify and correct incorrect address information submitted by external or internal stakeholders.
For instance the USPS maintains a list of verified addresses and offers an official certification known as CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System). Solutions that have been certified by CASS like PostGrid can directly connect to the official USPS database and instantly verify an address. This will save time and improve accuracy of data.
The solution to this issue is to create an authoritative address repository that meets various information needs and to continuously improve it with data quality processes. To accomplish this it is necessary to develop an address standard, enhance processes for capturing and storing information, develop audit controls, establish the right to this information and make sure that it is accessible to all stakeholders.
It is an ideal idea to incorporate the address collection into your company's master data management strategy. MDM manages a variety of critical business data types including address data. By integrating your address verification API with your MDM it is possible to cleanse and update the data in real-time without the need for manual intervention.
You can begin collecting and managing addresses by establishing an ArcGIS Work Assignment and adding any person who is responsible for verifying address information in the field using a mobile Worker Role to the Address Assignments ArcGIS Workforce Project. They can then go into the field to gather new addresses, and verify the data collected by crowdsourcing. Once they are completed, they can upload addresses to the assignment in the office to get them added to the authoritative layer of site addresses and marked incorporated.