{"id":445202,"date":"2021-06-29T19:59:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T02:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcnews&p=445202"},"modified":"2022-06-02T17:18:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T00:18:29","slug":"startup-improves-address-accuracy-for-multiunit-complexes","status":"publish","type":"arcnews","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcnews\/startup-improves-address-accuracy-for-multiunit-complexes","title":{"rendered":"Startup Improves Address Accuracy for Multiunit Complexes"},"author":5752,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11042,369792,91],"tags":[473242,1631,459731,641,17262],"arcnews_issues":[474922],"class_list":["post-445202","arcnews","type-arcnews","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esri-startup-partners","category-location-intelligence","category-mapping","tag-addressing","tag-collaboration","tag-deliveries","tag-logistics","tag-startups","arcnews_issues-summer-2021","arcnews_sections-collaborations"],"acf":{"short_description":"For most business and residential complexes, one location point indicates many units. One company is using ArcGIS technology to change that.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Accurate addressing is crucial to the rhythms of modern life. Whether dispatching basic deliveries, ensuring that service providers perform the right work, or helping emergency responders save lives, there are times when it\u2019s critical that people be found.\r\n\r\nBut in an age when communities and industrial areas are continually changing or expanding, accurate addressing, in some ways, has never been more complicated to achieve. It can be difficult to locate the right address, especially in large multiunit developments such as apartment buildings, colleges, hospitals, and commercial complexes. And the time wasted trying to complete the last 100 feet of an address search can be costly.\r\n\r\nThat\u2019s why one innovative company, Esri startup partner One Hundred Feet<\/a>, is using advanced geographic data to improve address accuracy at every step of the journey."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

The Challenges of Complex-Level Address Data<\/h2>\r\nIn the United States, about a quarter of all recorded addresses contain multiple units. Those units sometimes have distinct spatial locations, making them hard for people to find once they arrive on-site.\r\n\r\nWith most complex-level address data, one location point represents many individual units that are spread over a considerable area\u2014at times even in separate buildings. What\u2019s more, depending on what the adjacent road network looks like, some units aren\u2019t even accessible from the official address point.\r\n\r\nThis lack of accurate subaddress geocoding creates significant challenges. Delivery companies, for example, experience costly delays in the final 100 feet of distribution if their drivers have to search for the correct address. This kind of time wasted is particularly challenging for gig-economy delivery drivers, who depend on efficiency to ensure customer satisfaction and, ultimately, their ability to earn an income.\r\n\r\nInaccurate unit-level addressing also affects utility and internet companies that are looking to provide precise services. And when emergency responders need to reach people quickly, they can\u2019t afford to spend time searching large complexes for the correct unit."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":445052,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Precise Location Data to Navigate Multiunit Developments<\/h2>\r\nOne Hundred Feet, a geospatial mapping company based in Palo Alto, California, is using precise location intelligence<\/a> to create maps of addresses in complexes that include even structural features such as stairwells and entrances. The data that the company generates enables users to navigate to an exact destination in a housing, office, or industrial complex, eliminating the problems that tend to occur in the last 100 feet of an address search.\r\n\r\nThe startup built an adaptable framework that integrates address data drawn from diverse sources, including field operations and machine learning data models. Its in-house tools, combined with GIS software made accessible through the Esri Startup Program, have allowed One Hundred Feet to move quickly to create detailed address data for complexes across the United States.\r\n\r\n\u201cBecoming an Esri startup partner gave us access to a wide range of remarkable GIS tools and solutions,\u201d said Nitin Gupta, cofounder and CEO of One Hundred Feet. \u201cIt\u2019s really helping us tackle the toughest challenges in address mapping.\u201d\r\n\r\nEmploying massive field operations<\/a> using apps such as ArcGIS Survey123 and ArcGIS Collector, together with machine learning models, One Hundred Feet is creating a wealth of data for apartments and multiunit dwellings at scale. Its data includes the following:\r\n