Geocoding with alternative names

To locate an address, you have two more alternatives:

• Name aliases (for example, the 91 Dacia Ave address is known as Elementary School)

• Alternative names (for example, Dacia Avenue is a small section of the road called E60; E60 is part of the European Road Network)

The address locator with a name alias needs a supplementary table that must contain two required fields: the alias place name and the corresponding address. Your address locator will use this input table to search the address of the alias place name.

The address locator with alternative names needs an alternate name table that will contain specific fields in accordance with the address locator style (for example, prefix and suffix type, street name, and prefix and suffix direction). The alternate name table and the primary reference feature attribute table must contain the common Join ID field. Those two tables will join in a Many to Many relationship based on the common field.

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