GIS Quiz Ch 10
What is a street centerline?
A file containing line segments representing roads?
What is a TIGER/Line?
A file produced by the US Census Bureau that contains the line segments that correspond with roads in the US
What is a linear interpolation?
A method used in geocoding to place an address location among a range of addresses.
What is a locator package?
A single file created in ArcGIS that allows for the sharing of address locators
What is a segment?
A single part of a line that corresponds to one portion of a street
What is an address locator?
An ArcGIS utility that specifies the reference data, geocoding style, and necessary attributes for geocoding.
What is a geocoding service?
An online utility that allows for geocoding one or more addresses.
What is parsing?
Breaking an address into its component parts
What is batch geocoding?
Matching a group of addresses together at once
What is reference data?
The base street layer used a source for geocoding
What is the address locator style?
The format that will be used for geocoding addresses.
What is geocoding?
The process of using the numbers and letters of an address to plot a point at that location.
