topic Reverse Geocoding - only need Country in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/reverse-geocoding-only-need-country/m-p/353820#M20263 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi-</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have a list of several thousand latitude/longitude points from all over the world. I need to reverse geocode them and all I need is the country. I just want to know what country the point lands in. Most of them will be in wild uninhabited areas with no real address nearby.&nbsp; I have tried using the Reverse Geocoding tool with no luck. I use the ESRI_ PLACES_WORLD.geocodeserver and I get an output data set with a blank field called PlaceName. I am using ArcGIS 10. I was hoping that I could select an option to just get the Country name or code out, but the only option I see is Address.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any ideas or advice would be helpful.&nbsp; I know there are webservices that could do this but I don't know how to batch use them and I don't use mySQL etc. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>thanks-</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Sally</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:37:15 GMT SallyVegso 2013-01-09T18:37:15Z Reverse Geocoding - only need Country https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/reverse-geocoding-only-need-country/m-p/353820#M20263 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi-</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have a list of several thousand latitude/longitude points from all over the world. I need to reverse geocode them and all I need is the country. I just want to know what country the point lands in. Most of them will be in wild uninhabited areas with no real address nearby.&nbsp; I have tried using the Reverse Geocoding tool with no luck. I use the ESRI_ PLACES_WORLD.geocodeserver and I get an output data set with a blank field called PlaceName. I am using ArcGIS 10. I was hoping that I could select an option to just get the Country name or code out, but the only option I see is Address.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any ideas or advice would be helpful.&nbsp; I know there are webservices that could do this but I don't know how to batch use them and I don't use mySQL etc. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>thanks-</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Sally</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:37:15 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/reverse-geocoding-only-need-country/m-p/353820#M20263 SallyVegso 2013-01-09T18:37:15Z Re: Reverse Geocoding - only need Country https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/reverse-geocoding-only-need-country/m-p/353821#M20264 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I think you would be better off using a spatial join or intersect using the World Countries polygon layer from ArcGIS.com.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Brad</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:02:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/reverse-geocoding-only-need-country/m-p/353821#M20264 BradNiemand 2013-01-09T21:02:16Z