Geocoding Addressees Using ArcGIS Pro

In this tutorial , we describe how to geocode addresses from tabular data. The ability to convert tabular data to spatial data is one of the most important skills you will need in GIS. Geocoding is the process by which tabular data stored as addresses are converted to spatial data as points in a GIS. In this case, we downloaded crime data from the Open Durham GIS Web Site (https://live-durhamnc.opendata.arcgis.... From there, brought crime data as a CSV file into our GIS and just exported out vandalism data for the year 2021 to keep the file manageable. There are a couple of ways to geocode data, either by 1) using an existing locator service which you may already have on a hard drive 2) Connect to the Esri geocoding service through ArcCatalog at https://geocode.arcgis.com/arcgis/ser... or 3) Connecting to the ArcGIS World Geocoding service through ArcGIS Online. The result is a point feature class showing all crimes that were able to be matched using the service.

These videos have been created in support of teaching and research in the field of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) for the Department of Environmental, Earth and Geospatial Sciences at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). Established in 1910, NCCU is located in Durham, North Carolina, and serves about 8,500 students. The mission of our department is to promote intellectual, professional, and personal excellence through the highest quality instruction, research, and service in the environmental, earth and geospatial sciences. Its vision is to be recognized as a regional, statewide, and national resource for students and society as well as professionals who work in the many fields that are encompassed by the environmental, earth, and geospatial sciences. Students in our programs currently focus their studies in the fields of seismology, natural hazards, GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Remote Sensing applications, environmental health & impacts and remediation technology among others. Our courses are designed to provide students with the analytical and methodological skills necessary to understand or derive explanations for individual occurrences, for recurring processes, and for invariable as well as statistical regularities in the earth’s lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. The department prides itself in former students who fostered these skills and have gone onto successful careers in the field at places such as the North Carolina Department of Transportation, City of Durham, Environmental Protection Agency, Lowe’s Corporation, Environmental Protection Agency, National Forest Service, Army Corps of Engineers, real estate firms and private contractors or students who have gone onto Ph.D. programs at places such as North Carolina State University, North Carolina A&T State University and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.