Create Points from Table (Adding X/Y Data) in ArcGIS Pro

It contains information such as maximum temperature, minimum temperature, snowfall at more than 8,000 weather stations in North American on a daily basis. In these examples, we used the Geographic Coordinate System (World Geodetic Survey of 1984) as our coordinate system since I could see the units were in latitude and longitude.

There were about 355,000 of records in this file. While I could use the address field to geocode all of these points, it would take a long time and utilize valuable credits. Instead, X and Y values were provided. However, in looking at them, they were not in latitude and longitude since latitude values range between -90 and +90 and longitude range from -180 to +180. These extremely high values were in foot using the North Carolina State Plane Coordinate System. The system places the origin (0,0) in Alabama so that every point in North Carolina is positive - i.e. in the first quadrant. The NC State Plane Coordinate System minimizes distortion for the state of North Carolina and I have more about that projection in my video titled "Viewing and Changing Projection Information in ArcGIS Pro".

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.