GIS Pathway... » Longitude http://gispathway.com ...helping guiding you to success in the world of GIS! Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:57:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Calculate Lat/Long for Shapefile http://gispathway.com/2008/10/30/calculate-latlong-for-shapefile/ http://gispathway.com/2008/10/30/calculate-latlong-for-shapefile/#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:27:47 +0000 Timothy http://gispathway.wordpress.com/?p=615 Ever needed to add XY or Latitude/Longitude values to you shapefiles or feature classes?  Well, what seems to be a mystery can easily be done with just a few clicks.

The easiest way to get the lat/long values is to right click the field and select “Calculate Geometry…”. You can define whether to calculate x or y along with other geometries too.

Here is a more extensive video tutorial.

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Learn how to add XY data to a map here:

Create Point File from XY Data

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Working With Lat Long, Numeric Data
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