Locators in the geodatabase

Locators in the geodatabase
Release 9.3

• Locator styles—Used as templates on which to base new locators
• Locators—Defines the inputs, outputs, logic, and one or more reference datasets that are used to find locations
Locators are usually created by adding properties to a locator style that specify which reference datasets and which columns in those reference datasets to use to find locations. Using ArcCatalog to create a locator based on a locator style is the easiest way to create a new locator, but you can also use ArcToolbox geocoding tools. See Creating an address locator in the "Geocoding and address management" section of the help to learn how to create a new locator.
• Attached locators—Copies of properties of the locators that were used to create a geocoded feature class
When you create a geocoded feature class by geocoding a table of addresses using an address locator, ArcSDE stores a copy of the locator properties that were used to create the geocoded feature class. ArcSDE uses this attached locator when you rematch addresses in the geocoded feature class.

NOTE: To use an ArcSDE address locator—a geocoding service—a user must have SELECT privileges on the reference datasets and geocoding index tables used by the address locator. Only the owner of the ArcSDE dataset can grant privileges to the dataset.