ArcView StreetMap 1.

1Nationwide Street
Mapping and Address Matching on a
Single CDROM
An ESRI White Paper September 1999

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ArcView StreetMap 1.1

Nationwide Street Mapping and
Address Matching on a Single
CDROM

An ESRI White Paper

Contents
Overview
ArcView StreetMap Data
What Can I Do with ArcView StreetMap?
Mapping Capabilities
Nationwide Address Geocoding or Address Matching
Working with a Particular Area: Creating Shapefiles
Creating Custom Applications with Avenue
Supported Platforms
For More Information

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ArcView StreetMap 1.1Nationwide

Street Mapping and Address
Matching on a Single CDROM
Overview

ArcView GIS software gives you the tools you need for visualizing,
analyzing, and presenting your data. The optional ArcView StreetMap
extension to ArcView GIS provides additional capabilities that can help
solve problems you encounter every day. ArcView StreetMap provides
nationwide street mapping for, and the ability to locate addresses
anywhere in, the United States.

ArcView StreetMap
Data

The ArcView StreetMap CD includes street and landmark data for the United States in
a highly compressed format. The street database was derived from Wessex Streets
6.0. Wessex Streets 6.0 is an enhanced street database based on TIGER 1997 files with
improved address range information and more current five-digit ZIP Codes. Wessex
Streets 6.0 contains about thirty-one million street records and is 1997 current. The
data are georeferenced in latitude/longitude, six decimal degree accurate based on
NAD 83 datum. StreetMap also provides a nationwide landmark data set. In total, you
receive
World Countries
N Countries 1995
N Map background
United States
N States
N States (detailed)
N Cities
N Populated places
N Roads
N Interstates
N Major roads
N Airports
N Hospitals
N Lakes and rivers
N Major water bodies
N National parks
N Parks
N Streets

Wessex is a division of ESRI business partner Geographic Data Technology.

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Reading directly from the CDROM, ArcView StreetMap automatically creates

attractive local, state, regional, and even national street maps.

What Can I Do with

ArcView
StreetMap?

ArcView StreetMap solves problems associated with address and point of interest
locations.
Find an address and zoom to its location.
Find the locations of many addresses at the same time.
Zoom to any area in the United States to display state boundaries, roads, lakes,
rivers, parks, airports, and hospitals.
Click on any feature to display information about it.
Perform detailed analysis of a particular area and create a customized local street
data set.
Extract any street data to a local shapefile for further analysis.
With ArcView StreetMap you can zoom to any area in the United States to display
state boundaries, roads, lakes, rivers, parks, airports, and hospitals. You can click on
any feature to display information about it.
Detailed analysis of a particular area can be performed by creating a customized local
street data set. The data set can be used in routing applications (using ArcView
Network Analyst) or to study the relationships between streets and other features using
the powerful analysis capabilities of ArcView GIS.
ArcView StreetMap also provides additional Avenue (ArcView GIS software's
object-oriented scripting language) classes and requests. Use them to customize how
ArcView StreetMap data are displayed and managed in your application.

Mapping
Capabilities

ArcView StreetMap can automatically create local, regional, state, or national street
maps of any area in the United States. StreetMap will also classify, symbolize, and
label map features to create attractive maps right out of the box.
The ArcView StreetMap extension introduces a new theme type called StreetMap. The
StreetMap theme manages different layers, grouped into one of four levels: national,
state, regional, and local. StreetMap themes read and display the compressed data right
from the ArcView StreetMap CD.
StreetMap themes use predefined legends to display the data from the CD and also
have predefined scale-dependent display thresholds to control how much of the data
are displayed at any given scale. National and state levels display when you're viewing
larger areas; regional and local levels display when you're viewing smaller areas. The
more you zoom in, the more detail you see. You can retrieve detailed information
about any feature by clicking ArcView GIS software's Identify tool and then clicking
on the feature. The following table shows the features displayed at different scales.

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Scale

Level

Features Displayed

1:24,000,000 or smaller

National

Major cities, interstate highways,

bodies of water, state boundaries

1:23,999,999 to
1:1,400,000

State

Major cities, state capitals, interstate

highways, bodies of water, parks, state
boundaries

1:1,399,999 to 1:200,000

Regional

Airports, highways, primary roads,

secondary and connecting roads, bodies
of water, parks, state boundaries

1:199,999 or larger

Local

Airports, hospitals, highways, primary

roads, secondary and connecting roads,
local roads, access roads, bodies of
water, parks, state boundaries

You can easily change the scale at which a particular level displays using the theme
properties dialog box. You can also control how the data layers display with ArcView
StreetMap. Using the ArcView StreetMap legend editor, you have the freedom to
decide
Which layers are displayed
The order in which layers are drawn
Which symbols are used
Layer names
The number of text labels drawn

Nationwide Address
Geocoding or
Address Matching

ArcView StreetMap lets you find nearly any U.S. address easily using the software's
Locate button. If the address is located, ArcView StreetMap will zoom to its location and
display a graphic symbol there. Because ArcView StreetMap locates addresses using a
national database, you must provide either the ZIP Code or the city and state, along with
the street address.
You can also add your own table of addresses to your project. An address table should
contain fields for street address, city, state, and ZIP Code. You can use a batch process
to instruct ArcView StreetMap to search for your list of addresses in the database. If
StreetMap is unable to locate some addresses due to incorrect spelling or other errors,
options such as spelling sensitivity or minimum match score can be relaxed. You can
also manually correct address errors using an editor dialog box. When you have
completed the address match, you can add a theme of points to your view.

Working with a
Particular Area:
Creating Shapefiles

You will often want to work with a specific area in a StreetMap theme. For example,
you may be developing a geocoding application that deals with a particular city, or you
may want to use ArcView GIS software's analytic capabilities to study the relationship
between city streets and other information. With the ArcView StreetMap extension,
you can create local street shapefiles of any area in the United States. The shapefile
format stores the location, shape, and attribute information of geographic features.

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Once created, these shapefiles contain address range and road category information
based on Wessex Streets 6.0 street data.

Creating Custom
Applications with
Avenue

Should you require more control over data display and address geocoding in your
StreetMap theme, you can create and run Avenue scripts. ArcView StreetMap comes
with Avenue classes and requests that let you build your own StreetMap applications.
Using Avenue, you can
Add or remove custom levels or layers. For example, you could write a script that
adds a fifth level called neighborhood. It could be visible at scales larger than
1:100,000 and show such features as parks, schools, churches, and major
buildings. You could also write a script that adds a river layer to the regional and
local levels.
Set the scale at which a layer is visible. For example, the state detail level contains
urban interstates that are visible when the scale is between 1:23,999,000 and
1:1,400,000. You could make urban interstates visible only when the scale is
between 1:10,000,000 and 1:1,400,000.
Change the text size and font used to label a layer.

Supported Platforms
For More
Information

The ArcView StreetMap extension is available for Windows operating environments

(NT, 95, and 3.1 or higher) and requires ArcView GIS 3.x software.
To purchase ArcView GIS and the ArcView StreetMap extension, or to obtain additional
information on ESRI's GIS software solutions, please contact your local distributor or
ESRI.
Telephone: 1-800-447-9778
E-mail: [email protected]

September 1999