Address Match-Code Software

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Address Match-Code Applications
-- Health Clinics in Houston, Texas Areas

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Use the Address Match-Code software to address match your address-oriented data records to street segments between two intersections, anywhere in the U.S. This Web page shows an example of how the AMC software is used to address match and geocode a set of health clinic addresses in the Houston, Texas area. A file of approximately 200 clinics with addresses exists as a text file. An analyst seeks to view the location of the health clinics on a map.

The AMC software is used with the clinics file. The addresses are matched to the street segments on which they are located using the Proximity streets shapefiles. AN address matched clinics file is generated that contains the original record content, latitude-longitude, and geographic codes. The geographic codes include census tract and census block.

The ArcView software is used to display a map of the Houston area by census tract. The Proximity streets file is added as a layer. The clinics address matched dbase file is opened as an event theme. The map display appears as shown below. Clinic locations are shown as red icons.

A zoom into census tract 3101.00 is shown in the next map. Clinic names appear next to the clinic location.

A further zoom is shown in the next map depicting street name detail. The identify feature operation is used to view attributes of a clinic located at Rusk school.

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