Source data requirements
The source data for User Dictionaries includes street data but can also include place names and intersections.
To create a User Dictionary, your source data must conform to these requirements:
- Source records must include required fields, and these fields are mapped during the User Dictionary creation process. If a value of a required field is empty for a particular record, then that record will not be imported into the User Dictionary. The MapInfo table must contain specific fields. These input fields are described in Required input fields.
- Source records must be in a MapInfo table (.TAB file). For more information, see MapInfo Pro files.
- Segments must have two or more defined end points to be loaded into a User Dictionary. Segments without end points are ignored.
- Segments that make up intersections must have one or more end points in the intersection for the US geocoder to recognize it as an intersection. Source records can be either point objects or segments.
- Each row in the table is equivalent to a street segment.
MapInfo Pro files
MapInfo Pro allows you to use address record data that was created in other file formats and
converts this information into the .TAB file format. The
conversion process also generates other files that need to be placed in the same
directory as the .TAB file:
- filename.DAT - Contains the attribute data for each record.
- filename.MAP - Contains geometry information.
- filename.ID - Contains the spatial index.
- filename.IND - This file is created if an index is created from one of the attribute fields.