Chapter 14

Question 1

geocoding

Answer 1

A GIS operation for converting street addresses into spatial data that can be displayed as features on a map, usually by referencing address information from a street segment data layer

Question 2

address locator

Answer 2

A dataset in ArcGIS that stores the address attributes, associated indexes, and rules that define the process for translating non spatial descriptions of places, such as street addresses, into spatial data that can be portrayed on a map.