Search Box

Use the search box to locate anything on the map. Type in an address, intersection, vehicle ID, or feature name and select from the drop down or press Enter if the search is not found in the drop down Search Suggestion results.

Addresses

Any search text that starts with a number and contains a space will be considered an address. Here are some examples of valid search text:

•123 Jefferson

•123 N Jefferson St

•123 N Jefferson, Washington (community name must be separated from address by a comma)

•123-D N Jefferson, Washington ("D" intended to match a house suffix such as apt D, must be after hyphen)

See Address Finding for advanced information about how Think GIS works with addresses.

See Address Finding tab of Workstation settings for more options

Intersections

Any search text that contains a forward slash ('/') will be considered an intersection. Think GIS searches all road layers for features whose first field best matches the text before and after the slash and then calculates their intersection. If more than two matching features are found then Think GIS displays a list of all possible intersections. A "Road Layer" is any layer flagged for Intersection lookups in the GeoCode column of the Layer Settings screen. If the road layers contain a "community" field then narrow the search by specifying a community name after the street names separated by a comma. An Aliases section can be configured for any road layer that matches the simple format as described under address aliasing. See examples below.

•Jefferson/Walnut

•Jefferson St/Walnut St

•Jefferson/Walnut, Washington

Vehicle ID's

If interfacing with an AVL server, entering the vehicle ID of any AVL unit will make Think GIS locate it. Both the vehicle label and the vehicle label will be searched. See AVL Server documentation for an explanation of these two identifiers.

Street Names

If the requested location is not formatted as an address, intersection, or vehicle ID then Think GIS next searches the first field of all the road layers of the map for a match. Road layers are those layers that have the "use this layer for intersection and road lookups" box checked in the Geocode column of the layer settings window. Street name searches make use of any alias rules stored in the layers. They also make use of any optional community name specified in the search text. Some examples are:

•Market St

•Main St, Allendale

Place Names

If the requested location is not formatted as an address or intersection and does not match any road names then Think GIS next searches the first field of all place name layers. Place name layers are those layers that have the "use this layer for placename lookups" box checked in the Geocode column of the Layer Settings window.

Default Search

If no results are produced by any of the above searches then Think GIS proceeds to search every field of every feature of every layer for an exact match. It even searches the label text for each feature. All matching features are returned in a pick list.

Search Suggestions

The list that appears as a location is being typed is called the Search Suggestions. See Search Suggestions for more information about how this works and how to configure it.