I am having issues calculating X Y coordinates for polygons

Question

I have selected a number of polygons by using select by location, 100m from a roads feature layer. After making a layer from the selection, I merged two such layers and need to populate Lat and Long fields in order to locate them with a GPS in the field.

I did it in tables and CALCULATE GEOMETRY as well as the ADD GEOMETRY tool from the tooblox.

Either way I get a long decimal coordinate that will not work at all.

I have done the same process with points and had fine luck. Only in obtaining the Centroid of a polygon is throwing me.

thanks for any thoughts.

curtvprice · Answer

Esri grids are still supported in ArcGIS Pro.

Like the old coverage format, grids are folders with .adf files and requires a parallel INFO folder with more .adf files. It is possible someone gave you corrupted grids by copying the grid folders without the (required) info folder.

Raster file formats—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

Esri Grid format—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

LonOttosen · Answer

Thank you. It was of course a projection issue.

I am now having trouble opening a raster. ArcGiS Pro gives me the error

that it is an unsupported format. It appears to be the old coverage style

with adf files?

I would not think the data sent to me woukd be that old. Any thoughts?

Thanks.

danretired · Answer

from the help

CalculateGeometryAttributes(in_features, geometry_property, {length_unit}, {area_unit}, {coordinate_system}, {coordinate_format})

what did you specify for the coordinate system and coordinate format in the dialog?

If you didn't specify anything but left the defaults, then you will get back the information in the coordinate system of the data (as you have confirmed)