Pitney Bowes MapMarker USA - Manual (Page 64)

Understanding the Geocoding Process
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Setting Startup Preferences
MapMarker has Startup preferences that apply to all of your geocoding sessions. This allows you to
start MapMarker with a consistent appearance and behavior. These Startup preferences are
available on the System Preferences dialog.
To display the System Preferences dialog, click System Preferences on the Options menu, and
then click the Startup tab.
You can use any and all preferences available in this dialog. For the file open choices, if you select
either Show for MapInfo or dBASE files or Show for ODBC tables, the Open dialog appears
automatically when you start MapMarker. If you have both options selected, MapMarker prompts
you with another dialog at startup to choose which type of table you want to open.
You may also control which of the setup dialogs, if any, display on startup. Choose from:
• Show Select Column Dialog On Open (selected by default)
• Select Attribute Files After Selecting Columns
• Show Geocode Dialog After Selecting Columns (selected by default)
By selecting all three options, when you start MapMarker, it walks you through the geocode and
attribution setup phase. The settings are saved to the table as metadata and used as new defaults
when you open the table again.
Other system preferences are discussed in Setting System Preferences on page 112 .
See the following topics:
Supported File Formats
Geocoding Flexibility and Trade-offs
General Guidelines for Optimizing Geocoding
Specify Input Address Columns
Specify Output Address Columns
Output Column Type/Width Requirements
Interpreting Census Block IDs