GIS5050 Module 5: Add XY & Geocoding

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Module 5 covered adding XY coordinate tables into ArcGIS Pro and also geocoding schools, which we eventually publicized the data on ArcGIS Online. I've had a few occasions in the past where I've received nothing but excel sheets from clients, but it doesn't happen all that often -- so, it was good to refresh how to go about it.

For the Add XY part of the lab, we cleaned up coordinate data to be useable in ArcGIS Pro, then ran the XY Table to Point tool in order to have the Eagle Nests points populate at their proper locations. It was fairly straight forward; however, the geocoding section of the lab was a little more demanding. I thought it was good practice to get us used to actually retrieving the data for once from organizations, since the data we had been working with so far had been mostly just given to us. Albeit, we weren't looking for the data blindly (and the websites were given), but getting used to where to find credible and substantial data useful to what you're trying to accomplish is very important. We had to manually gather the list of schools in Manatee county, Florida and prepare the excel sheet for ArcGIS Pro. Similar to the Eagle Nests, we had addresses for these schools; we simply needed to create a point feature class for them.

Feel free to click the blue hyperlink title below to view the Web Map I created for the Geocoding part of the lab.

Preview of my ArcGIS Online Web Map on Manatee Schools that were geocoded during the lab.

Funny enough, I had a coworker that had been assigned to do something very similar for a project in Miami-Dade, where they too had to generate a map of all the schools there. I didn't follow that project closely, but I saw how it also required checking addresses and mapping them. Now being able to do geocoding myself for a different county was fun to explore!


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