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Now working in earnest on those Chicago Sanborn maps I mentioned earlier ...

So I have a file of census data prepared by students including the street
addresses of the residents.  I'd like to upload all those records (600 in
one file, 700 in another) to AGOL so that the class can develop map apps
working with this data.

It is incredibly easy to just add the file in AGOL and it magically locates
all the addresses, creates points, populates the popups, etc.  Except ...
the points are not really in front of the houses (which is really easy to
see in those Sanborn maps, with the very carefully written-in street
numbers).  The points are clustered in the northern half of the avenues,
not spread along the entire street.

I've tried geocoding these files in ArcMap, with the modern Streets layer
as a base layer, with the same results.  I know that the geocoding process
interpolates the points, based on what the range of addresses is along the
street, which side of the street, and how far down the street it calculates
the location of the point should be.  I don't mind the interpolation, but
...

Is there any way to make it use the entire length of the street, not just
the northern half?  I'm using the default World address locator, if that
makes a difference.  I've looked through some of the documentation and
haven't really found anything related to this issue.

Thanks as always for any illumination of this issue,

Deborah Reichler
Hamilton College

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