Geospatial · Build and fix geometry

Make Point

Turns longitude and latitude columns into points you can map and use in other spatial nodes.

Also known as: XY to point, create points

How it works

Pick the Longitude column and Latitude column, both in decimal degrees, and the Output column, geom by default. The point is built with longitude first and tagged as EPSG:4326, which the Map tab and the other spatial nodes expect. Nothing is dropped: coordinates outside -180..180 or -90..90, rows at 0,0 and rows that look like swapped latitude and longitude are counted into warnings on the node instead.

Inputs and outputs

Settings

{
  lonColumn: string
  latColumn: string
  outputColumn: string
}

Example

Store coordinates from a CSV with lng and lat columns: longitude lng, latitude lat, output geom. Then use Spatial Join to tag each store with its region.

More in Build and fix geometry

• Poly Build — Connects ordered points into a line or polygon, or wraps them in a hull or bounding box, optionally one shape per group. For example, GPS points into route lines.
• Make Valid — Repairs broken shapes, such as self-crossing polygons, so later spatial steps don't fail on them.
• Reproject — Converts geometry from one coordinate system to another. Use it before measuring or overlaying layers that come in different projections.
• Poly Split — Breaks multi-part shapes into single parts, one row per part, such as the islands of a country.
• Remove Holes — Fills in the holes inside polygons, keeping only the outer boundary.
• Dissolve — Merges shapes into one, or one per group, so the inner borders disappear. For example, county outlines into one outline per state. To keep totals alongside the shapes, use Aggregate's Union (dissolve).