Hi all, I am trying to figure out how to reverse geocode lat/long coordinates using the geocoders at my org that we have hosted on our Portal site. These geocoders are all in our local state plane coordinate system.
This is for a project where we will be importing lots of location points from an avl platform that will be in lat/long, so I'm setting up an automation in Make(Integromat), to match these points against an address. Since we will have a lot of points, I'd like to use our geocoders instead of the Esri world geocoder to avoid using a lot of credits.
But our geocoders will only reverse match against coordinates in state plane and not lat long. I've found some old posts that say the geocoder should transform on the fly but from what I can tell this doesn't work. And by that I mean just entering some decimal degree coordinates like '-82.576337, 35.5938221'.
I'm considering creating another locator where I transform our local data in the update process so the locator ends up being WGS84, but this seems redundant. Whats the solution here? I realize the other option is doing a transformation in our automation software, but thats proving to be difficult so I'm looking for a solution on the geocoder side if possible.
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Your Portal/ArcGIS Server should have a Geometry Service which you can send the coords to for conversion.
https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/latest/publish-services/windows/about-the-geometry-service.h...
Your Portal/ArcGIS Server should have a Geometry Service which you can send the coords to for conversion.
https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/latest/publish-services/windows/about-the-geometry-service.h...
Thanks! I completely forgot about the utilities folder. So is the idea that the locator will transform on the fly mistaken?
https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/geocoding/reverse-geocode.htm
If the spatial reference of the input feature class is different from that of the locator, the locator will transform the coordinates on the fly and try to find the match. The output feature class will be saved in the same spatial reference as the input feature class. To change the spatial reference of the output feature class, set a different output coordinate system in the tool's environment settings.
If so I'm guessing this behavior only applies to the tool itself and not the service.
Oh no, I have no idea. That link seems to be for the World Geocoding Service, but certainly worth a try.