Geo-Mapper Manual Lookup

The Geo-Mapper Manual Lookup is used to find the true site location, when the location in the site master does not show up on the map. This can happen when the address is not a correct address, such as a misspelled street, an incorrect house number or a zip code that does not match the city.

It is possible to locate the site location using the Geo-Mapper Manual Lookup. This window has a set of tools which allow you to try to find a matching house number, street name, city, state and zip code. The Geo-Mapper Manual Lookup is available from the Geo-Mapper tab on the Site Master.

Opening Geo-Mapper Manual Lookup

On the Main Menu, select Site/Customer, and click Site Master.

The Site Master window will open.

Click on the Geo-Mapper Tab to bring the map into view.

Click the Search button .

The Geo-Mapper Manual Lookup Window will open.

Steps to Locate Site Address

The Geo-Mapper Manual Lookup Window has several different areas, which are called frames. Notice that the known site address is shown in two frames. The first is the Input Address Frame. The address in this frame can be modified or edited. The second is the Standardized Information Frame, which will break up the address into separate parts.

In order to demonstrate how the manual lookup works, let's say that we entered the following incorrect address:

9100 Purdue Road

Suite 119

Blue Ash, Ohio

46260

Geo-Mapper shows possible matches for the street address and for the zip code. Geo-Mapper will place Blue Ash,OH in the Possible Cities from Input Address list box, which is in the Zip Code List frame. Geo-Mapper will also show that streets in Blue Ash, OH may actually be part of Cincinnati, OH.

Geo-Mapper also shows that the zip code of 46260 does not belong to either Blue Ash or Cincinnati. 46260 is a zip code for Indianapolis, IN. Because of this, all three cities might be the correct city for this customer site, and would be listed in the Possible Cities from Input Address list box as shown below:

You may click on any city in the Possible Cities from Input Address list box to see all of the zip codes that exist for that city. Those zips codes are termed the "Zip List."

Along with listing possible cities that might match the Input Address, Geo-Mapper also lists possible streets in the list box at the lower left hand corner of the Manual Lookup window.

Note that in the illustration, the Std name must be "In Zip List". You may choose to look at streets that are only in the zip codes in the Zip List, as shown above, or you may set this to "Equal to Std. Zip" which says that Geo-Mapper should only list a matching road name if it is in the zip code shown in the Standardized Information Frame. The last option is "In Any Zip" which says that Geo-Mapper should display all road names that are like the standardized name anywhere in the country. We have shown this down below for PURDUE.

Each road name displayed will have the first 6 characters be equal to PURDUE. If you click on the Match first combo box, which currently has a 6 in it, you can set it to a 4 (four), which would then show all roads that match PURD in any zip. This lets you see more streets that may match your lookup criteria in the event that you have a misspelling towards that end of the street name that you wish to correct.

Now, once you have found the various road names that match your criteria, click on one that you wish to see. We will go back to the Purdue Roads in the zip code list for Indianapolis for the example below and click on PURDUE RD.

When we click on PURDUE RD, Geo-Mapper will fill in all of the address ranges that it knows about for Purdue Road in the zip code list in the ranges selection box at the right. Currently it is set to "Within 10000 of range". This means that either the low address or high address for a segment must be within 10000 of the standardized address number displayed in the Standardized Information frame at the upper left of the window. If you wanted Geo-Mapper only to display street segments whose address ranges are within 100 of the standardized address number, just click on the dropdown list box and select “Within 100 of Range”.

Now, if you scroll down the list of addresses and find one that contains your address, click on the range that contains your address and then click on the Place on Segment button. If you click on the range and the Place on Segment button does NOT highlight, it's because you have an odd address and the range that you are looking at is an even range (i.e. the low and high address numbers are even).

Let's say that you cannot find the exact address along a range but find one that is close. Click on the range that looks close to what you want and then click on the Select Segment button.

In the event that nothing seems to match the address that you want to find or even comes close, try the following:

A. You may try clicking on the Match first dropdown list box and giving Geo-Mapper more flexibility in showing streets that match your criteria by picking a smaller number.

B. If the "Std name must be" is set to "In Zip List" and there are other cities listed, try selecting a different city in the Possible Cities from Input Address listbox by clicking on it. As an example, if we didn't have any luck with Blue Ash, OH, we could try Cincinnati, OH as it is an alternate name for Blue Ash. Just click on Cincinnati, OH. Here is how it would look:

As you can see, when compared to the Blue Ash, OH listing above, Cincinnati contains many more zip codes than Blue Ash. Anytime that there is an (Alternate) city listed, odds are very high that it will contain more zip codes than the city as it was entered.

C. You could change your requirements in the "Std name must be" dropdown list box to being less stringent. This is directly above the street names list box on the lower left hand corner of the dialog and looks like this:

In the event that you have selected "Equal to Std. Zip", then you may try selecting "In Zip List". You could also let Geo-Mapper find names anywhere in the country by selecting "In Any Zip".

D. Check to see that the address number as entered is correct and double check the spelling of other key pieces of address information such as the city name, state and road name.

E. You may try an alternate name for the street. Sometimes roads are known by two different names.