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How do you indentify coordinates?

Anonymous User

Hi all -

I'm trying to master the wretched process of dealing with unidentified coordinates. I work for a state agency that does a lot of field work and this data comes in fairly often. I'd like to train my users on how to manage it, but it appears I haven't quite got a handle on it myself! This is the documentation (unless one of you knows a better source).

29129 - Identify the spatial reference, projection, or coordinate system of data

It says to add the data table and look at the data via the 'project on-the-fly' utility.

But when I look at the source tab, I can't see anything but text, both with a csv or xls table.

I wondered if maybe it was b/c it wasn't a dbf but when I try and export as a dbf it fails! Help, please? TIA

Cheers,

Joanna

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Anonymous User

cool idea. I work for the State of Vermont so that might be doable. I still don't understand why this data can't be viewed in my source tab like the documentation says. I'd just like to do it the right way!

MelitaKennedy

Here's something I recommend in my talks at the UC. If you generally deal with data from one area, make a cheat sheet with extents or sample coordinates in the various coordinate systems. Here are sample coordinates for San Diego in three different coordinate systems.

Header 1	Header 2	Header 3
San Diego, California
NAD 1983	X / longitude	Y / latitude
Geographic	-116.67	33
UTM zone 11N	530,000 m	3,650,000 m
State Plane (CA zone 6)	1,960,000 m	593,000 m

Beyond training the staff to, say, always use latitude and longitude, WGS 1984, in decimal degrees, this technique may help you to more quickly identify data with an unknown coordinate system.

Melita

DanPatterson_Retired

They are latitude and longitude values and if originating from a gps, most likely using WGS84 datum. I wouldn't worry...do note that Longitude-Easting-X are Latitude-Northing-Y can be thought of as triplets when referring to coordinates, in case someone directly or inadvertently changed the coordinates in the GPS (highly unlikely)...without getting into details, just don't switch them around if asked for an X-coordinate and you are given gps data as you have recorded.

Anonymous User

It's worth noting that I was able to project the data, but only by guesswork. I used the "Most frequently, GPS data is collected on the WGS 1984 datum" rule, but that seemed suspicious to me. I got it from below.

27589 - Import XY data tables to ArcMap and convert the data to a shapefile

But I want to know how to do this correctly and teach it that way as well.

Anonymous User

Gladly.

ID,site,Latitude,Longitude

1,Lowell -Burgess Branch,44.80583300,-72.46055600

2,Troy - Jay Branch,44.95638900,-72.39722200

3,"Westfield – Missisquoi River, Loop Rd ",44.86666700,-72.41555600

4,"N Troy – Missisquoi River, Big Falls",44.97388900,44.97388900

DanPatterson_Retired

copy and post the first few rows of the csv file.

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