How it works...

In this recipe, you geocoded a spreadsheet of inspections that had been exported from a Permitting and Inspections system which was external to your GIS. To do this, you first had to determine a reference layer. The reference layer is a GIS layer that contains address data. You examined your parcels and street centerline layers to determine which one would be the best reference layer. You determined that the street centerlines layer was best due to the completeness of the address information.

You then created a new locator that allowed you to use the centerlines as your reference. You used the Create Address Locator geoprocessing tool found in the Geocoding toolbox.

Once the locator was created, you were able to geocode the inspections spreadsheet. This created a new point layer in your map showing the locations of the inspections. One of the inspections did not match when you ran the initial geocoding. This was due to a misspelled name. You corrected this in the Rematch Addresses window, matching it to the correct location.