Share a locator

Available with Business Analyst license.

ArcGIS Business Analyst Enterprise comes with a locator for the U.S. to perform geocoding workflows, such as POI searches and batch geocoding of point locations. The locator can be shared as a geocode utility service to an ArcGIS Enterprise portal.

Business Analyst Enterprise users will receive authorization files for StreetMap Premium for North America for both ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Pro.

Note:

All data needed for street address geocoding and network analysis are included with the USA data bundle for Business Analyst Enterprise on My Esri.

ArcGIS StreetMap Premium product downloads for ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Enterprise may appear in your My Esri list. These files are not needed and should not be downloaded. Follow the steps for downloading the street data below.

Authorize the geocoding data for ArcGIS Pro

The USA address locator is available for geocoding in ArcGIS Pro if you are licensed for the proper regional StreetMap Premium extension (North America). Upon purchase of Business Analyst Enterprise, an authorization code for StreetMap Premium for ArcGIS Pro is made available through My Esri.

See Enable a StreetMap Premium extension and Review license information in ArcGIS Pro for additional licensing information.

Note:

If your account in ArcGIS Pro has not been provisioned with the StreetMap Premium North America extension, a red exclamation point will appear next to the country locator name in the Catalog pane under Project > Locators. In the Locate pane under Settings, the country locator name will also be unavailable. See Enable a StreetMap Premium extension for information on how to have your ArcGIS Pro account set up with a ArcGIS StreetMap Premium extension.

Download the geocoding data

To download the geocoding data, do the following:

1. On the My Esri site, click Downloads and click ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 (Linux). Click Products, click All Versions, and search for Business Analyst.
2. Look for U.S. Data for use with ArcGIS Business Analyst Enterprise and ensure the latest version is used. Click View Downloads.
3. Expand the details of the download components to see the descriptions.
4. Locate ArcGIS Business Analyst Enterprise 2025 Geocoding Data (U.S.A) and click Download.
5. On the Esri Download Manager dialog box, click Click to download your file now.

   The Destination Folder for Files dialog box appears.

6. Keep the default location or click Browse to choose a different location to save the file.

Authorize the geocoding data for ArcGIS Enterprise

To publish a geocode service to ArcGIS Enterprise, the ArcGIS StreetMap Premium North America extension must be authorized for ArcGIS Server. Upon purchase of Business Analyst Enterprise, an authorization code is provided through My Esri.

To install the authorization, follow the steps below:

1. On the My Esri site, click Licensing and click Authorizations.
2. In the Quick Search text box, type Business Analyst.

   The results are populated with all Business Analyst products available.

3. Locate the ArcGIS Business Analyst Server N America authorization (formerly called ArcGIS Business Analyst NA for Server) for the current software version and expand the Details section to view the authorization number.
4. Copy the authorization number and use it to activate your license using the ArcGIS Server Software Authorization Wizard.

Share the locator as a hosted service

For users in your organization to access the locator as a geocoding service, you must share the locator from ArcGIS Pro. Do the following:

1. Extract the 7-Zip file containing the geocoding data locally to the machine where it will be published. Contained within the 7-Zip file is a folder called Geocoding Data for ArcGIS Pro, which contains the USA locator.
2. Follow the Share a locator workflow in ArcGIS Pro to publish the USA locator as a hosted service.

Configure your locator for ArcGIS Enterprise

To configure your locator as a utility service for ArcGIS Enterprise, do the following:

1. Sign in to the portal as an administrator and click through to Organization > Settings > Utility Services.
2. Under Geocoding, click Add Locator and do the following:
   1. For From Existing Locator, ensure the USA locator is selected.
   2. Ensure the Allow geosearch and Allow batch geocoding check boxes are checked.
3. Click OK.

Configure a geocode utility service from ArcGIS Online

You have the option to configure your portal to use utility services from ArcGIS Online instead of publishing them to your own server. This has the added benefit of providing geocoding coverage outside the United States. To use an online geocoding service provided by Esri, you must have an ArcGIS Online organizational account. The account must have credits associated with it and the appropriate permissions to use the utility services.

The Esri World Geocoding service provides coverage for several countries or areas and can be configured in the portal following the steps below.

1. Sign in to the portal website using the default administrator role in your organization.
2. At the top of the site, click Organization and click the Settings tab.
3. Click ArcGIS Online on the left side of the page.
4. Select Geocode.
5. Enter your credentials for the ArcGIS Online account to be used for the utility services.
6. Click Configure services.

Next step

Install and configure GeoEnrichment Server