HOW TO
A zone is considered city, state, or zip code, but is not limited to these values when mapping zone fields. For instance, an emergency service number value can be used as the zone and mapped to the city field when building the locator.
Increasing the weight of the zone gives it a higher priority than the street suffix type. This is helpful when the street suffix type of the input address has a high probability of being incorrect. Increasing the weight of the zone causes the candidate with the correct zone to be returned with a higher score than the candidate with the incorrect zone.
The instructions provided demonstrate how to increase the zone weight when geocoding.
Note: Rebuilding the address locator is not required.
Note: If it is necessary to adjust the weights, make the changes and save the *.loc.xml file and continue geocoding with the address locator.
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