Week 6 Lab: Add XY Data Points, Geocoding, Georeferencing, and Basic Editing

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For this lab, I learned how to add XY data points by altering data in Microsoft Excel. I also explored the concepts of geocoding, georeferencing, and basic editing

The first part of this lab revolved around learning how to prepare spatial data for integration to ArcGIS that is not "ready-made" in a shapefile. I prepared an Excel table spreadsheet consisting of  XY point data of the location of three eagle nests. The Excel spreadsheet was saved as a .csv file and then imported into ArcGIS Pro. When importing the data, I selected "XY Point Data" ("XY Events Data"). The data was then projected to the NAD 1983 (2011) StatePlane Florida North FIPD 0903 (US Feet) coordinate system.

The second part of this lab produced a map that originated from raw tabular data. The raw tabular data was prepared and cleaned up in Excel. It was then saved as a .csv file. Next, I began to establish a  geocoding style. It began by setting up an address locator with the address locator style being "US Address- Dual Range." I ran the address locator and proceeded with the next steps of geocoding. There was a series of 15 unmatched addresses I had to manually identify. To do this, I googled the addresses and compared its location on Google Earth and Google Maps to the base map in ArcGIS Pro. To make it easier to identify locations in ArcGIS Pro I ran several Geoprocessing Select Layers by Attribute queries based on street names to identify and isolate the location of the street I was looking for.