ArcGIS for Microsoft 365 transforms aspects of location data (such as a pair of x,y coordinates, an address, or the name of a place) to a location on the earth's surface and represents that on a map.
ArcGIS for Microsoft 365 uses services such as the ArcGIS Geocoding service and the ArcGIS GeoEnrichment Service to detect point locations (such as addresses and coordinates) and boundary (polygon) locations (such as postal codes, cities, states, and provinces) in your data.
For guest users, ArcGIS services use the default locators established for all users. If you are signed in to your ArcGIS account, ArcGIS for Microsoft 365 uses the locators configured for your organization to place your data coordinates accurately on the map. To learn more about locators, see Introduction to locators.
To ensure that you use the best available positioning accuracy, you may need to review and configure your location data to ensure that it can be read by ArcGIS services. For example, when you add a data layer to a map, choose a location type that best represents the dataset. Location information from the data creates a relationship between your dataset and the specified location type.
Although ArcGIS for Microsoft 365 includes functionality to provide a location on the map based on the best possible available location data, the more you organize and prepare your data before you add it to a map, the more likely the map results will be accurate every time. See Supported notation formats for information about the notation formats you can use in your data.
Related topics
See the topics listed in the following table for more information about data and geocoding:
| ArcGIS for Excel | ArcGIS for Power BI | ArcGIS for SharePoint |
|---|---|---|