Consuming GEOnet Names Server (GNS) Data and Services in ...

Excel is used to convert the TXT files into XLS (maximum number of rows = 65,536) or XLSX (maximum number of rows = 1,048,576) spreadsheet files that can be brought into ArcGIS, and then converted to feature class in a personal geodatabase. This should help maintain the original file encoding and avoid loss of data fidelity. ................
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