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geocentric longitude

[coordinate systems] The angle between the prime meridian and a line drawn from a point on the surface to the […]

geocode

1 [geocoding] To assign a street address to a location. 2 [government] A code representing the location of an object,

GeocodeServer

[ESRI software] An ArcGIS Server software component that provides programmatic access to an address locator and performs single and batch

geocoding

[geocoding] A GIS operation for converting street addresses into spatial data that can be displayed as features on a map,

geocoding engine

[ESRI software] An entity in the geocoding framework that drives the geocoding process.

geocoding index

[ESRI software] An index on reference data used by an address locator to search for matching records in the reference

geocoding platform

[ESRI software] A conceptual entity of the geocoding framework that combines the interaction of the ArcGIS interface with the input

geocoding process

[geocoding] The steps involved in translating an address entry, searching for the address in the reference data embedded in an

geocoding reference data

[ESRI software] Data that a geocoding service uses to determine the geometric representations for locations.

geocoding rule base

[programming] A collection of files that directs the geocoding engine in how to standardize address data and match it to

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