Greetings,
I'm stumped on this and wonder if anyone can just point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance!
I have a csv to excel table that includes a narrative PLSS land description attribute, i.e., "CO T. 34 N., R. 5 W., New Mexico Principal, Sec. 22". I need to map these parcels. But I am stuck on how to do this. I have the PLSS shapefile to join this data to, but I don't know how to do this practically.
The PLSS shapefiles themselves of course do not include a narrative description that I can directly join to. The field I want to use is the FIRSTDIVID of the PLSS shapefile. The FIRSTDIVID entry "CO230340N0050W0SN220" corresponds to the narrative land description "CO T. 34 N., R. 5 W., New Mexico Principal, Sec. 22".
So what's the process I need to use to get those two fields to match up and join? I thought there might be a way to geolocate the land description and then do a spatial join, but I haven't found a Locator for PLSS descriptions. There's probably a way to create the FIRSTDIVID attribute in excel from the land description before importing it into Pro? Or do I need to learn Python to create a new field that translates the narrative into the alphanumeric?
If anyone can just point me in the right direction I can hopefully figure out the details from there. I know this is an unconventional post here but I am stumped. This is probably something I should know but, well, I don't!
Thanks!!
