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Receiving error "The coordinates or measures are out of bounds" when doing spatial.to_featureclass()

AFackler_NAPSG — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:35:20 GMT

Hello all, I am trying to run a script that will extract the deleted features from a hosted feature layer on ArcGIS Online and ultimately publish them into a new feature class OR feature layer. However any time I run the spatial.to_featureclass() or spatial.to_featurelayer(), I receive the same error stating, "Could not insert the row because of error message: The coordinates or measures are out of bounds.. Recheck your data."

As far as I'm aware there are no additional data transformations that occur on the layer and I am not running any custom or other projections on ArcGIS Online. I am mostly working in VS Code. When I run the same script in Notebooks (with appropriate modifications to work in AGOL Notebooks), I just receive the error "Error 1: Cannot Encode Value". I am running the newest version of the API for Python and newest version of Runtime in Notebooks.

Below is my script and screenshots of the errors I am seeing. Anyone run into this before?

from arcgis.gis import GIS from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone import pandas as pd from arcgis.features import FeatureLayerCollection # new import from arcgis.features import FeatureSet print("Starting") gis = GIS("https://napsg.maps.arcgis.com", username="USERNAME", password="PASSWORD") # skip SSL verification for this demo item_id = "ITEM_ID" # replace with your item ID flc_item = gis.content.get(item_id) # FeatureLayerCollection item flc = FeatureLayerCollection.fromitem(flc_item) # flc = flc_item # alias – we use it a lot below utc_now = datetime.now(timezone.utc) start_time_ms = int((utc_now - timedelta(hours=24)).timestamp() * 1000) print(utc_now) changes = flc.extract_changes( layers=0, # layer IDs to examine servergen=18985651, # start at generation 0 (all edits) # <- add this so no syncLayers object is required return_inserts=False, return_updates=False, return_deletes=True, # # queries = {"0"{"where": "EditDate >= start_time_m"} queries={"0":{"where": f"EditDate <= '{utc_now}'"} }, data_format="json" ) changes dels = changes["edits"][0]["features"]["deletes"] # gives list of features print("Doing something") for i, edit in enumerate(changes.get("edits")): layer_id = edit.get("id") # print(layer_id) features = changes.get("edits")[i].get("features") for op in ["adds", "updates", "deletes"]: # print(features[op]) if op in features: feature_dict = { "features": [ {"attributes": feat["attributes"], "geometry": feat["geometry"]} for feat in features[op] ] } feature_set = FeatureSet.from_dict(feature_dict) # print(feature_set) feature_set.sdf print("sending to csv") output_csv_path = r"C:\Users\admin\Desktop\output_data.csv" feature_set.sdf.spatial.to_table(location=output_csv_path) print("sending to feature class") output_fgdb_path = r"C:\Users\admin\Downloads\USAR_Pro_Template\incident_data\incident_data.gdb" output_feature_class_name = "NewTestClass" output_path = f"{output_fgdb_path}\\{output_feature_class_name}" feature_set.sdf.spatial.to_featureclass(location=output_path) # print("Publishing to feature layer") # feature_set.sdf.spatial.to_featurelayer() print("Done")

Error in VS Code:

Error in Notebooks

Re: Receiving error "The coordinates or measures are out of bounds" when doing spatial.to_featureclass()

Clubdebambos — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:00:36 GMT

Hi @AFackler_NAPSG,

I haven't had a chance to test a similar workflow, but perhaps a different option for creating the feature class might work. The FeatureSet has a save() method you could try.

feature_set.save( save_location=output_fgdb_path, out_name=output_feature_class_name )

All the best,

Glen

Re: Receiving error "The coordinates or measures are out of bounds" when doing spatial.to_featureclass()

AFackler_NAPSG — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:21:53 GMT

Hi Glen,

Looks like that created a File Geodatabase Table that is still completely empty

Re: Receiving error "The coordinates or measures are out of bounds" when doing spatial.to_featureclass()

KenGalliher1 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:22:19 GMT

In my test case, the trick is to set the spatial reference of the FeatureSet before running to_featureclass.

feature_set = FeatureSet.from_dict({"features": edits[op]}) feature_set.spatial_reference = {"wkid": 3857} sdf = feature_set.sdf fc = sdf.spatial.to_featureclass("path/to/gdb")

Re: Receiving error "The coordinates or measures are out of bounds" when doing spatial.to_featureclass()

AFackler_NAPSG — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:05:35 GMT

Thanks Ken, putting "feature_set.spatial_reference = {"wkid": 3857}" into line 49 of my script above did the trick and I am not seeing that error any more, and I am able to send to feature class and send to feature layer as expected!

for i, edit in enumerate(changes.get("edits")): layer_id = edit.get("id") print(layer_id) features = changes.get("edits")[i].get("features") for op in ["adds", "updates", "deletes"]: # print(features[op]) if op in features: feature_dict = { "features": [ {"attributes": feat["attributes"], "geometry": feat["geometry"]} for feat in features[op] ] } feature_set = FeatureSet.from_dict(feature_dict) feature_set.spatial_reference = {"wkid": 3857} feature_set