idea Go To XY Lat-Lon Pair Input Box in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Go To XY Lat-Lon Pair Input Box

CameronLarson — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 13:24:17 GMT

The Go To XY tool should have a single input box where you can paste lat/lon pairs like you might copy from two adjacent cells in a spreadsheet. Add a toggle that allows you to switch between lat/lon and lon/lat.

Re: Go To XY Lat-Lon Pair Input Box

AndyMurray1 — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:03:43 GMT

Excellent ideas. Surely this could be implemented with the existing 2 input boxes: just have the tool recognize a TAB character as a separator between the X and Y coords. You paste the pair into the first box and it moves the 2nd coord to the 2nd box. This would allow one to copy/paste two adjacent cells from a spreadsheet (the tab is automatically inserted between cell values). Also I can quickly insert a tab character between columns of coords in a text editor.

Taking it further, I would like to see a couple of additional features added to this tool:
1. Click on the map and get the XY coords of the location (loaded into the input boxes). Then be able to flash, add point, etc as normal.)
2. Ability to copy the coord pair with one click. Currently you must do this one coord at a time, and you have to select (highlight) the coord before you can copy it.
3. Abiility to copy the contents of the "Recent" list to clipboard.

I know this tool is called Go To XY, and I know the GetXY function is already part of the Identify tool, but in my workflows these functions go togeher. Put them together and rename the tool.

Re: Go To XY Lat-Lon Pair Input Box

AndyMurray1 — Fri, 12 May 2017 18:48:32 GMT

Four years on, and I still feel this tool could be so much better.

Copy Coordinates and Goto XY Suggestion

PeteJordan — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:47:57 GMT

I am suggesting the Goto XY (esri_mapping_gotoXYControl) to allow a single entry of both the Lat/Long rather than forced to using it as it currently is as two separate boxes.

I find it frustrating when using the Copy Location (esri_mapping_copyCoordinates) from one map and want to find that location on another, I have to paste the full Lat/Long in the Long box, then cut out the Lat and re-paste that in the Lat box.

It would be easier to have the option to paste the entire coordintate into the a Lat/Long box option (similar as to how Google allows pasting of both and it will jump to the location) as well as have it separated as it currently has to deal with both types of coordinates to paste in.

It would also be helpful to allow the Long box and Lat box to also be expanded to paste in longer coordinates as well.

Re: Copy Coordinates and Goto XY Suggestion

wayfaringrob — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 18:31:51 GMT

Yes, Google Maps is a good benchmark for how coordinate searches should be treated. It's always so nice; no matter if you've got decimal degrees or DMS, cardinal directions or +/-, etc - it handles it and it works.

Re: Copy Coordinates and Goto XY Suggestion

alex_friant — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 19:50:31 GMT

Great idea. Seems like an easy change to add the option be it an extra single entry field or even a toggle option.

While I think it would be cool to have the default interpreter to be "smart" - aka: it attempts to parse the coords using some intelligent analysis, like Google does, I think it would be a bonus to have a "custom configuration" option that allows you to explicitly tell it how to interpret the coords you are entering in case the smart entry doesn't work.

Paste Coordinates

wayfaringrob — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:40:10 GMT

It's very easy to copy coordinates (R click map --> Copy Coordinates).

If I want to quickly go to these coordinates in another project I have open, I can't really. Go To XY wants lat & long in separate boxes -- another couple steps. It would be great to have either the option for single field entry in Go To XY or a quick paste/go to copied coordinates option on the R click menu.

If Google Maps can support this, can't Esri?

Re: Paste Coordinates - Status changed to: Open

JMutunga — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:53:44 GMT

Re: Paste Coordinates

silverberrysea — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 21:33:00 GMT

Does the locate pane work for you? It's never had any problems accepting XY coordinates for me.

I agree it'd be nice if GoToXY would let you paste it all in one go too, though, and right click > go to coordinates would be stellar.

Re: Paste Coordinates

wayfaringrob — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 18:03:12 GMT

@silverberrysea interesting ... can't say I use that pane very often, and agree that it would be clunkier than my proposed solution, but I'll give it a go in the interim.

Re: Go To XY Lat-Lon Pair Input Box

PeteJordan — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:37:47 GMT

@silverberrysea I have actually been using the Locate now for quite some time as I find it doing exactly what I need and much easier to use. I've actually unbound my GoTo XY and just use Locate now...

Re: Go To XY Lat-Lon Pair Input Box

Bud — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 01:00:44 GMT

@PeteJordan Thanks for bringing up the Locate pane. I had mostly forgotten about it.

The coordinates I want to bring up in the ArcGIS Pro map are often in lat/long format, like this:

44.723320, -77.544250

But the Go To XY widget is in long/lat format. So I need to flip the coordinates when entering them, which is an extra step:

Whereas the Locate pane seems to be able to handle either long/lat or lat/long. So that saves a step.

Re: Go To XY Lat-Lon Pair Input Box

Bud — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 21:11:35 GMT

For what it's worth, this is the format coordinates are in when I'm copying them to the Go To XY tool in Pro:

Lat: 44.72332° N
Lon: 77.54425° W

Or:

44.723320, -77.544250

Re: Go To XY Lat-Lon Pair Input Box

PeteJordan — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:23:03 GMT

@Bud, yes I often am getting corrdinates from places like Google so haveing to re-arrage them was always a pain to do with the extra steps to make it work in the Go To XY tool. I also like how it just makes another pane on the side of Arc that I don't have to search for. If I have my Attribute Editor up in the bottom as I often do, I have to move that, to move the Go To XY tool to a visible space on the map.

So it's now I don't have any use for that tool anymore since the Locate tool does everything better and much more efficiently...