Module 5: Adding XY Data & Geocoding

Adding XY Data to ArcGIS Pro

We used the Latitude and Longitude of (3) known eagles’ nests in Santa Rosa County, Florida (in degrees, minutes, seconds format) and input them into a Microsoft Excel file. We converted into decimal degrees format by using a formula, and then added the data to an ArcGIS Map as XY Point data.  

    I work with Excel often in my day-to-day, so found this assignment to be a very familiar experience! 

Online ArcGIS Map View of Schools in Manatee County, Florida 

Geocoding

In order to geocode for the address of Manatee County, Florida schools, we first cleaned up the Manatee County, Florida school addresses dataset from the Florida Department of Education in Microsoft Excel. I ended up having 88 school listings – however, several of those lacked address information (which showed up as “unavailable” in Excel, which would then show up as an “unmatched address” later on in the lab-). The US Census Bureau provided the Road and County layers.

Once we correctly projected our data into NAD1983 (2011) Harn State Plane Florida West FIPS 0902 Feet, added the cleaned data Excel file we created earlier, and created a new feature class just for Manatee County from the County layer- we began setting up an address locator using the Create Locator geoprocessing tool.

We were able to geocode once we had our address locator created. I got 8 unmatched addresses – several were “unavailable” as the dataset from the Florida Department of Education didn’t have as much data listed for those school location entries, and others were PO Boxes. I did place a few addresses manually/"Pick from map" to match to locations as I found them in Google Maps.

My map is available as a web map here: Online ArcGIS Map View of Schools in Manatee County,Florida 

The green dots are the locations of schools within Manatee County, Florida, and the brown lines are roads/streets of Manatee County, Florida.

    This portion of the lab was very straightforward - I did question why some of my data wasn't matching in the address locator, but realized after really examining the data for problems that truly some schools were "unavailable" for the Address, City, and Zip. 

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