Unknown Spatial Reference

Question

Anyone know what coordinate system this is in. Trying to display it on arcmap and its showing up in the gulf of guinea. It is supposed to show up in Edmonton Canada. I used add x and y then tried define projection. But because its projection is unknown. I am not able to project it to NAD 83 UTM 114. I have gone through different projections trying to guess  the right one but i have not been successful. Any one Know how i can fix this? Thanks

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DanPatterson_Retired · Answer

keep us posted... gave up Dr Google, all I could come up with is some school bus routing software or a masters program in photonics engineering... both sound cool but probably off-track

St_A · Answer

Thanks Dan

I will have to ask. The x and y values are not making any sense. Seems like something is missing. I appreciate your input.

DanPatterson_Retired · Answer

Mapnet?  never heard of it... it doesn't even look like a web Mercator (check though, stranger things have happened)

It can't even be in UTM since either value isn't large enough to be a representative value from the equator.  Given that in a standard UTM zone, 45 degrees latitude is about-ish 5,000,000 metres from the equator.

It looks like your coordinate system might be something different ... is there a chance that you use Lambert conformal conics of some kind?  any projection being used by Edmonton that may not have a standard parallel of the equator.

Best solution!  Find the person that gave you the spreadsheet and ask them