Pitney Bowes MapMarker USA - Manual (Page 83)

Chapter 3:
Intersection Geocoding
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Map the Match Candidates
To help you choose the best match for your record, display the candidates on a map via Map in the
Interactive dialog. This requires that you have street data on your system and you specify its location
in the System Preferences > Maps tab.
See Viewing Match Candidates on a Map for a complete discussion of visualizing match
candidates.
Edit Your Records
Interactive geocoding also allows you to correct your record to improve the possibility of a match. If
you choose, your table can be updated to reflect the newly edited record, all from within the
Interactive Geocode dialog.
By manually correcting the fields to put the firm, street, city, and state into their proper locations, the
record is more logical and MapMarker can make better suggestions on possible matches. After
editing the record, click Search to display a new list of match candidates.
To write these changes to the base table, select the Write modified address above to Input Fields
on Geocode check box and click Geocode to confirm the match.
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Your edits overwrite the address data in the respective fields, so be sure not to alter the fields
containing the correct address data.
Remote Tables
Note that when you geocode remote tables interactively, MapMarker cannot overwrite the Input
Address fields of the source table. That is why the check box Write modified address above to
Input Fields on Geocode is unavailable in the Interactive Geocode dialog.
Intersection Geocoding
MapMarker enables you to geocode to street intersections in two ways. The method that you choose
depends on how you prefer to store the street and cross street information in your table.
Intersection addresses stored in one column. With this method of intersection geocoding,
MapMarker reads input street addresses that contain intersection tokens (such as “&&”) between the
street and the cross street. If you do not have the information in your table, you must create a
column that contains the street and the cross street.
Street 1 and Street 2 names can be separated by one of the following intersection tokens: “and”,
“at”, “&”, “&&”.