This map represents the location of schools (from elementary school to college) in Brevard County, Florida. This data was geocoded from the information found on the Florida Department of Education website. This map uses a NAD1983 HARN State Plane Florida East FIPS 0901 Feet projection.
The geocoding and XY data assignments enhanced my knowledge of the backstage players in GIS. Up until now, I have mostly been concerned with representing data through maps (other than the time I worked with ArcGIS Collector); however, now I have a more comprehensive view of how to get usable and quality data in the first place. When making a map, it is not always possible to manually travel to locations and record sites on the ArcGIS Collector app. Geocoding pre-existing data from credible sources is much more efficient and realistic, especially for my own future GIS endeavors. This was definitely a new difficult concept for me, especially since I only have a baseline understanding of Microsoft Excel. Overall, I surprised myself with my ability to move through the steps with little error. However, the most notable setbacks I had were inputting the formula for the cities wrong and not catching that mistake until the end when all of the formulas were intertwined. I ended up having to manually put in the cities myself which took a long time. I also had issues at the very end with getting a sharable link for my map because the feature layers in the map weren't defined somehow. I did a Google search and was able to fix this issue, though.
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