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Re: Geocoding Score Documentation:  How is the score value determined? jian liu Jun 1, 2015 9:22 AM (in response to Bruce Harold) Bruce Harold Bruce, ... One thing I find strange is that when there are multiple candidates found for an address, the geocoder will pick whatever the first one, instead of the "best" one. For example, a search for address "2725 30TH STREET SE, Washington DC" will get a match at "2725 30th St NE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20018" with a score of 92.43, when geocoded using ArcMap. The match is wrong, due to the street directional. Of course, a manual rematch will find a 100 match, but this won't be feasible for batch geocoding. ... Jian Re: Geocoding Score Documentation:  How is the score value determined? Nathan Lowry Jun 1, 2015 12:59 PM (in response to jian liu) Similarly, one of our agencies was frustrated with the same thing.  There doesn't seem to be an option to allow the candidate among individual address locators with the highest score to be automatically selected as the match in a composite address locator - or, at least I couldn't find that option in any documentation or discussion thread yet.  So, last week I created Composite Address Locators by Score in ArcGIS Ideas, with the description: Enable ArcGIS users to create composite address locators and modify their settings so that the highest candidate scores among participating indiviudal address locators selected as the match for each address record geocoded.  Other variations on this idea would be most welcome (eg. setting a score of "60" from Locator A to be roughly equivalent to a score of "70" from Locator B, and "80" from Locator C). Is such modification possible, and if so, how would it be done? Sincerely, Nathan Lowry GIS Outreach Coordinator P 303.764.7801 |  F 303.764.7764 601 East 18th Avenue, Suite 220, Desk D-23, Denver, CO 80203-1494 nathan.lowry@state.co.us  |  www.colorado.gov/oit How am I doing?  Please contact my manager Jon Gottsegen (jon.gottsegen@state.co.us) for comments or questions. ... View more

I know geocoding is largely controled by the Locators .xml files in C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Desktop10.0\Locators.  However, where is it written (documented in white papers, technical articles, etc.), how the geocoding Score value is calculated? I'd like to reference the documentation in metadata. Thanks, Nathan Lowry, GISP Governor's Office of Information Technology GIS Outreach Coordinator, State of Colorado 601 East 18th Avenue, Suite 220, Denver, CO 80203-1494 303.764.7801 720.402.4462 Cell nathan.lowry@state.co.us, http://www.colorado.gov/oit How am I doing?  Please contact my manager Jon Gottsegen (Jon.Gottsegen@state.co.us) for comments or questions. ... View more