idea Add Projected Coordinate Systems to Coordinate Conversion widget in ArcGIS Experience Builder Ideas

Add Projected Coordinate Systems to Coordinate Conversion widget

andrewdc_tt — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 04:26:40 GMT

Currently, the Coordinate Conversion widget in Experience Builder only converts Lat-Long coordinates into different notations, but can't convert coordinates into a different projected coordinate system.

I would like users to be able to input a set of coordinates in one coordinate system (e.g. Lat-Long) and get coordinates in another projected coordinate system (for example NZTM 2000 / EPSG 2193) and vice versa. The tool should be configurable to allow for coordinates for many projections to be converted.

Re: Add Projected Coordinate Systems to Coordinate Conversion widget

shodge_fsu — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 19:29:10 GMT

Agreed. For my applications, only being able to see various versions of Lat/Lon makes this widget pretty useless.

Re: Add Projected Coordinate Systems to Coordinate Conversion widget

BexH — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 20:56:56 GMT

Yes please! This would be VERY useful!!!

Re: Add Projected Coordinate Systems to Coordinate Conversion widget

johnjcarter — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 21:06:35 GMT

Excellent idea

Re: Add Projected Coordinate Systems to Coordinate Conversion widget

DanielLeRoux — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 21:48:14 GMT

This would be really useful for my work also! Fingers crossed.

Re: Add Projected Coordinate Systems to Coordinate Conversion widget

SimonNigh — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 16:45:03 GMT

Pretty essential for any mapping application.

Re: Add Projected Coordinate Systems to Coordinate Conversion widget

TimF — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 10:41:05 GMT

Absolutely agree this is required. Would also highlight the following confusion between the two coordinate widgets available in AGOL Experience Builder:

Coordinates: is capable of 'converting' between different coordinate systems because datum transformations can be configured in the widget. However, the user can only view one system output at a time, meaning two very precise mouse-clicks are required to obtain a conversion (bearing in mind the marker disappears at each reset).
Coordinate Conversion: is only capable of converting the format of the coordinate within the map coordinate system. It does however leave a nice pin on the map!

Arguably, the former does a better job of 'conversion' but in a not very useful manner. The latter is conversion in a limited sense only and actually more useful as a coordinate pinning function (IMO).

Using both widgets does allow an extremely fudgy conversion: pin point with 'conversion' widget; click pin to get the (approximate) conversion with the non-conversion widget. I'm not recommending that - just highlighting how un-intuitive the split across two widgets is. Solution: combine them into one.

Re: Add Projected Coordinate Systems to Coordinate Conversion widget

SubaKrishnan — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 16:23:26 GMT

Hi! This seems like a good enhancement for the coordinate widget. I'd suggest logging in a support case. Thank you.