Geocoding Florida Schools

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Geocoding is a powerful tool in Arc GIS Pro. We can locate areas of interest using X and Y coordinates, or we can just take an address of a location to map a point. In order to do this, we need to run a tool called "geocode" and use an address locator. Arc GIS Pro with an organization account will have the Arc GIS locator caked in to find locations based on coordinates or address. For this map in particular, I created our own address locator unique to Brevard County, Florida. I then geocoded all of the schools located in the county. 16 were unmatched, which required me as the GIS analyst to rematch them by fining their correct coordinate. Now we have the map displayed above, with all of the schools located in Brevard County. We projected the data to a more local datum for NAD 1983 HARN State Plane East Florida in U.S. feet. 

Please see the webmap below:

https://arcg.is/1rCa4v




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