Spatial Analytics with Only Address

[MM_Chris]

Hi there,

I have an upcoming project where a user inputs an address (street, city, state, zip). I was wondering is there a way to find the lat/long within Alteryx using just these parameters?

[neilgallen · Accepted solution]

The Street Geocoder tool in the Address Palette does just this. As long as each is a field in your dataset you'll be good to go.

[MM_Chris]

Thank you, I was able to figure this out earlier because I wasn't aware we had the Spatial package. I shall leave your answer as the solution for any others who come across this problem.

[CarlyArk]

Is there a way to do this without the spacial package?

[MM_Chris]

Another alternative solution I was given was looking into using a geocoding service. There are a lot out there that offer the service for a fairly low cost. You can use most of the online geocoding services from Alteryx by leveraging the Download tool.

[marco_zara]

It can be done using the OpenStreetMap shapefiles but it requires a bit of patience, if you're interested I can try to give a rough tutorial.