Latest Contributions by ReneePardee

Well, sure it is slightly more complicated than I put it, but my data did have minus signs, and it was formatted properly, thus I was pulling out my hair. I was trying to use projected > UTM > WGS 1984 zone 13n, but the data would not cooperate. Using the geographic> World> WGS 1984, fixed my issue. It is a quick fix  that might help others. ... View more

I was having this problem too. My points were ending up in the middle of the ocean. Then I watched this video, and I finally understood the problem. Don't forget that choosing a projection verses geographic coordinate system is critical. Projected uses meters and the geographic uses decimals for lat and long. ArcGIS 10 - ArcMap - Projection and Coordinate Systems - YouTube ... View more

Thanks for the answers. If ever there was a fickle mistress, it is ArcGIS. Today I had a 54% match on my group of 7000 addresses, and an almost complete match if I use just zipcodes. Now I just need to figure out how to meld them together. ... View more

I now have ESRI Data & Maps on my computer. I attempted to geocode and over half my fields were geocoded! It was a miracle. So I used the next set of of data I prepared for geocoding and tried again, this produced 60% match. I realized I'd filtered out many addresses in SAS, took that portion of code out and geocoded again. There are around 7000 records, verses 2200 in the first attempt, and now it now won't geocode. The process moved pretty quickly, so I don't understand how the exact same method of preparing data, but with more records would stall out the process. Nothing else is running on my computer except firefox. Any Ideas? Also, what dies 'tied' mean? ... View more

Joe, thanks for checking. I just checked the E911 roads for my county and they are missing roads... but I will keep looking! The missing roads could be from growth, I can't remember how much we've grown since 2009. Agatha, thank you for mentioning this. I knew I should have this data available. The problem is that I wasn't permitted to install ArcGIS myself, the computer support folks had to do it (can't step on another departments' toes!) and I wasn't in my office when they did. I sent them an e-mail, so hopefully they will be able to find the maps & data collection DVD. ... View more

Thanks Joe! Which data do you usually use to geocode? I've looked through the transportation and census metadata and could not find any file with street names, number ranges, etc. in-order to do street level geocoding. Is there a better section to look in? ... View more

Hello everyone, Thanks for replying. I work for a college in New Mexico and I want to use addresses to create maps about our students. I need to geocode street addresses so we can visualize different patterns (dot density of different GPAs, etc). I eventually want to geocode for the whole country so we can see where all our students are coming from. Plus we have lots of online courses available, so it would be interesting to see where those students are. I was trying to use the geocode built into ArcGIS, World Geocode Service, by right clicking on my table with regular street addresses. That's when the "Not Authorized" error occurred. I called ESRI and they told me that this service is no longer available for free, that you have to either make your own geocode or pay for the geocoding services through their new credit system. After this I tried to create my own geocoder but the data I downloaded off the USDA website only had the street name available, none of the other attribute fields are useful for geocoding. This data didn't work of course because my addresses have the number before the street name. If it had worked I would just download all the other states, but there is no house number range in the attribute table. Also, my excel table with the student addresses needs formatting. Is SAS a good way to format tables for geocoding? I need to remove the students from the table with null values for their address and some students have the 4digit extension attached to their zip code. I started to go through the data manually, before deciding that was an absolutely ridiculous idea since we have thousands of students. I'm a beginner at SAS, so any advice about using SAS to create data for ArcGIS would be very helpful. Thank you, Renee ... View more