Lab 8: Geocoding Addresses and Making Maps

Introduction

This lab introduces data address matching and map making in ArcGIS.  You will learn the following skills in ArcView:

• Creating a geocoding service
• Matching addresses
• Rematching addresses
• Opening a map template
• Adding x,y data to a map
• Drawing graphics on a map

Instructions

Do the tutorial exercises in Chapters 17 and 18 of Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop.

Deliverables

Answer the following questions and produce the following outputs.  Hand them in to the instructor at the beginning of the next lab section.  Labs should be typed, include your name and lab number, be well organized, and be stapled together.

Chapter 17

1. What is geocoding or address matching?
2. Geocoding requires an address table, reference data, and an address locator.  Describe each of these elements.
3. What is the output of the geocoding process?
4. Print the map at the end of exercise 17b after adding you name using a text box.
5. Print the map at the end of exercise 17c after adding you name using a text box.

Chapter 18

1. At the end of exercise 18c, put your name on the map using a text box.