Hi Neil, Good question. You haven't done anything wrong, Arches is working as intended. We haven't added the extra step of automatically geocoding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocoding) the address you enter in the location from because this would require a geocoding service.
I agree that this would be a very nice addition to Arches, but we just haven't included it yet because the leading geocoding services such as Google or esri have licensing restrictions or require a payment. We've recently looked at Mapbox as a possible geocoder, but it requires signing up for an account (an may also require a purchase). FYI, we're also considering using Pelias (https://github.com/pelias/pelias), an open source geocoder that could use OpenStreetMap data as a geocoding engine for Arches. Personally, I think that this approach would the most flexible and open, but also would require you to download a dataset from OpenStreetMap to make it work. Once the geocoding service issues are resolved, it would be a pretty easy matter to automatically add the resulting geometry to the resource and make it viewable in the Map View. Hope this helps. Cheers, Dennis On Sunday, September 27, 2015 at 8:11:18 AM UTC-7, Neil Silberman wrote: > > Hi All-- > > I'm working with Angela Labrador to set up Arches for a project. All seems > to be working fine, except for this: > > When I'm working in the Resource Description Manager --> Resource > Description--> Location--> Address field, and I enter a street address, is > there any way to have this automatically appear georeferenced in the mapped > locations or Map View? Is it supposed to do so? Have we neglected to > install something? All advice appreciated > -- -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
