topic Re: Automatically Display Coordinates of Mouse Position on Map in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

Automatically Display Coordinates of Mouse Position on Map

CameronLacelle — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:30:17 GMT

Is there a way you can get the coordinates of the cursor to automatically display as the user hovers their mouse around the map area?

I embedded the coordinates widget so a user can place a point on the map and get its coordinates, however our current corporate GIS viewer has a text box in the top right corner of the map that displays the coordinates of the cursor's current position without a click so it dynamically changes as you move your mouse over the map screen. If possible, I'd like to replicate this feature in EB.

Re: Automatically Display Coordinates of Mouse Position on Map

TonghuiMing — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 07:56:03 GMT

@CameronLacelle

The default behavior of the OOTB ExB Coordinates widget works this way:

(view in My Videos)

If you place a pin, then the number stays for copy functionality.

The only exception is that certain WKIDs do not get values from mouse hover, so the coordinate values can only be obtained from a pin drop.

Re: Automatically Display Coordinates of Mouse Position on Map

CameronLacelle — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:22:18 GMT

Thank you for the info. Much appreciated

Re: Automatically Display Coordinates of Mouse Position on Map

DNMCSCADA — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 07:57:28 GMT

Hi,

If you can verify that the Widget works with WKID 4326, that will be very appreciated. I'm trying it to work with WKID 4326 but it only works with placing the pin.

Regards.

Re: Automatically Display Coordinates of Mouse Position on Map

TonghuiMing — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:08:26 GMT

I tried 4326 and it works fine on mouse hovering

Re: Automatically Display Coordinates of Mouse Position on Map

CameronLacelle — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:03:14 GMT

hover coordinates does not work for UTM 17N (and I assume other UTM as well)

Re: Automatically Display Coordinates of Mouse Position on Map

Stefan_Thorn — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 07:35:33 GMT

it depends on the coordinate system wkid that is used for the basemap. it will show coordinates while hoovering when you also add the same wkid to the widget.

update: but is it not working for all. i.e. I used a luxembourg webservice (esri lux) as basemap but still need to add a pin to get the coordiantes. while using a rd new (esri nl) basemap it went well.