The data resources required for deploying World Gazetteer may be downloaded from My Esri or are included on the ArcGIS Data Appliance: World Gazetteer USB flash drive, which is available with most ArcGIS Data Appliance 2025 product options.
Note:
World Gazetteer is not included with the World Basic product option.
The World_Gazetteer\worldgazetteer folder contains the following three files:
- ESRI_World_Gazetteer.sd
- worldgazetteer.loc
- worldgazetteer.loz
The following instructions are available to assist you in deploying World Gazetteer on your system:
- For information about supported environments, see System requirements.
- To use World Gazetteer, you must deploy it using ArcGIS Server Manager.
The steps below describe the deployment process for ArcGIS Server 10.9.1 or later.
Copy the worldgazetteer folder to ArcGIS Server
Copy the worldgazetteer folder from where you downloaded and unzipped it from My Esri (or from the ArcGIS Data Appliance: World Gazetteer USB flash drive) World_Gazetteer folder to your server, for example, C:\locators\worldgazetteer. You can use Windows copy and paste tools or another copy utility.
Publish World Gazetteer on ArcGIS
Using ArcGIS Server Manager, you can publish the World Gazetteer service definition file (.sd) as a service.
Note:
The service definition file, ESRI_World_Gazetteer.sd, is created with the data path C:\locators\worldgazetteer. If your data is stored in a different location, you must use ArcGIS Pro 3.1 or later to publish a geocode service.
- Start ArcGIS Server Manager and sign in.
- Click Services > Manage Services > Publish Service.
- Browse to the worldgazetteer folder under locators on your GIS server, for example, C:\locators\worldgazetteer.
- Select ESRI_World_Gazetteer.sd and click Next.
- On the Specify properties dialog box, ensure that Name is ESRI_World_Gazetteer and Type is Geocode Service. Leave Folder set to Existing, and check Start service immediately. Click Next.
- Click Publish to publish the service definition as a service.
The published service screen appears for the ESRI_World_Gazetteer geocode service indicating Status: Started. The new geocode service appears in the list of available services.
For more information about ArcGIS Server and .sd files, see Publish service definition files.