idea Add coordinate sytems Listing on the Table of Contents Pane ? in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Table of Contents list by Coordinate System

DominicBull — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:23:30 GMT

Currently in ArcGIS Desktop 10.2 (ArcMap) under the table of contents you can list by drawing order, source, visibility and selection. I think it would be useful to be able to list by coordinate system.

Re: Table of Contents list by Coordinate System

KoryKramer — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 12:45:09 GMT

From Display each Layer projection under the Table of Contents. :

It would be NICE if ESRI can add this toolbar "List by projection" for each layer rather than having to go into the Layers' Table Of Contents (TOC) and then double click on the Layers to open the Data Frame Properties and then hit the Coordinate System tab menu.

This is inconvenience way to do this several steps to get there if you are agree with me ?

So how about adding the "List projection" for each layer toolbar on the TOC ? This way we all can take a look the quick way to check them ?

So you have the buttons on the Table of Contents here:

On the Table of Contents you have 5 different buttons.

List by Drawing Order

List by Source

List by Visibility

List by Selection

Options

Add this to "List by Projection" ?

Here is the screenshot of what I am trying to display.

List by Spatial Reference in the ArcGIS Pro Contents pane

AndrewShakes1 — Tue, 25 May 2021 05:28:12 GMT

Spatial data comes in all sorts of coordinate systems and projections. If you load it in to ArcGIS Pro without re-projecting, it can all get a bit messy. But some of us are too busy to do that every time, and ArcGIS Pro just makes it easy to be lazy and re-project on the fly.

How handy would it be to list all the content by Spatial Reference, and see which datasets need re-projecting (or worse don't have a projection defined); without needing to go through each one's properties.

Re: Table of Contents list by Coordinate System

KoryKramer — Tue, 25 May 2021 12:46:57 GMT

FILTER TOC BY COORD SYSTEM

SylvainBoivin — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:35:47 GMT

It would be nice to display de TOC (table of contents) by coord system to troubleshoot issues. It would help finding the culprit layer (s), thanks!

Re: FILTER TOC BY COORD SYSTEM

David_Brooks — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:49:47 GMT

How coincidental that I was thinking this exact thing yesterday. There's already an Idea open for it too

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/table-of-contents-list-by-coordinate-system/idi-p/928173

In the meantime, I wrote a python script that outputs a CSV, listing the layers and their coord systems in 2 columns. You just need to input the APRX folder and filepath, name of the Map and folder and filepath for CSV.

import arcpy, csv, os aprxInput = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) mapInput = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1) csvpath = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(2) aprx = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject(aprxInput) m = aprx.listMaps(mapInput)[0] lyr = m.listLayers() lyrList = [] lyrNames = [] for lyr in m.listLayers(): if lyr.supports("dataSource"): # some layers might not support the property "dataSource" lyrList.append(lyr) lyrNames.append(lyr.name) srs_list = [] srsNames = [] for lay in lyrList: laySRS = arcpy.Describe(lay).spatialReference srs_list.append(laySRS) srsNames.append(laySRS.name) arcpy.AddMessage("LAYERS") arcpy.AddMessage(lyrNames) arcpy.AddMessage("SRS") arcpy.AddMessage(srsNames) def tableToCSV(input_list, srs_list, csv_filepath): with open(csv_filepath, 'w') as csv_output: writer = csv.writer(csv_output, lineterminator='\n') for i, value in enumerate(input_list): srs_val = srs_list[i] writer.writerow([value,srs_val]) tableToCSV(lyrNames, srsNames, csvpath) arcpy.AddMessage("CSV Generated.")

Re: Table of Contents list by Coordinate System

KoryKramer — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 18:10:05 GMT

Hi @SylvainBoivin in terms of troubleshooting to find a culprit layer, when you open the Map Properties you will see the map's coordinate system.

And you will also see layers that are using a different coordinate system, so that may help for the troubleshooting use case:

Re: Table of Contents list by Coordinate System

SylvainBoivin — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 18:15:14 GMT

Waww, thanks! this will be helpful!

Re: Table of Contents list by Coordinate System

CraigHartel — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 19:27:11 GMT

I have dozens of features in my Table of Contents. Opening the properties of each one to determine its projection is onerous to say the least.

List by spatial reference

ToddHawley1 — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:11:50 GMT

My idea is very simple. Provide a "List by spatial reference" button at the top of the contents pane similar to the existing "List by datasource" button. This would be very helpful to quickly know what data my need to be projected or simply when the "shape length" and "shape area" fields may not be appropriate for the units of your project. I think this would be a very popular feature for people who deal in multiple coordinate systems especially when the linear units vary.

Re: Table of Contents list by Coordinate System

RoseF — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:14:16 GMT

Even some indication in the TOC that a particular layer is being reprojected on the fly. In other words, if a particular layer in the TOC doesn't have the same spatial reference as the data frame, a star by its name or something to indicate that it is being altered on the fly.

Re: Table of Contents list by Coordinate System

SylvainBoivin — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:21:37 GMT

Good idea to indicate by a symbol, you don't need to change the panel. And it could be a good idea to do the same if a definition query is setted!

Re: Table of Contents list by Coordinate System

ToddHawley1 — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 17:59:56 GMT

@RoseF I like this idea quite a lot. It would be much more efficient than what I had in mind. It made me think of another option I would like which would be to disable project on the fly. This would force you to project your data before you could use it. In the old days this was just how it was. Just a simple toggle somewhere on the TOC. Turn it off while your processing local data and turn it back on if you need a web services for instance. I think both ideas would be fairly trivial to implement.

Re: Table of Contents list by Coordinate System

WillAnderson — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 23:28:01 GMT

If nothing else, maybe Pro could provide the option to LIST/VIEW THE FILEPATHS to the layers listed under MapProperties-->CoordinateSystem-->Layers-->[CoordinateSystems], rather than just their TOC layer names (which can be duplicates, filepaths cannot, unless layer is loaded more than once)?

If not, I upvote the idea to list/order in TOC by spatial coordinate system. We work with a lot of farm equipment shapefile exports that are often named the same, so seeing 1 "culprit" layer named "Tile Pipe" with an Unknown system isn't particularly helpful when you have 1000+ layers named "Tile Pipe" loaded in the map and you need to merge etc.

Pro's project on the fly is handy but the need to get everything into a common spatial reference system for troubleshooting and pre-geoprocessing/analysis data prep hasn't gone away.

Thanks!

Re: Table of Contents list by Coordinate System

mj_gis — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:18:05 GMT

I was just looking for this functionality today and am really happy to have found this idea!

@KoryKramer Thank you for describing how to see all coordinate systems in the map properties in Pro - so very helpful.

Also I like @RoseF 's idea to list the layers that are being projected on the fly. That would be a very helpful addition.

Re: Table of Contents list by Coordinate System

WillAnderson — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:25:54 GMT

Don't forget you can at least see what layers are flagged as different than the current map coordinate system by (1) opening the Edit tab in Contents view, (2) turning editing on, then (3) grouping the culprit layers and to interrogate them individually one by one, working top to bottom, rather than scrolling through Contents when you have hundreds of layers.

Re: Table of Contents list by Coordinate System

mj_gis — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:28:34 GMT

@WillAnderson

Great idea! Thank you - I didn't know about that functionality in the Edit tab 🙂

Show the Coordinate System in the Table of Contents - Data Source View

RTPL_AU — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 23:43:29 GMT

Add the data coordinate system to the data source view in the Contents pane.

Bonus points:
Make it a global setting so users with small monitors can optimise UI space as required.

Re: Open Show the Coordinate System in the Table of Contents - Data Source View

ScottFedak2085 — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:31:45 GMT

It's possible that a single data source could have multiple coordinate systems. I'd enhance this idea a bit and suggest that an entire new tab be added to the TOC where layers are grouped by their coordinate system. This would allow users to identify and troubleshoot possible reasons for misalignment issues and better understand the interaction between different layers and how they are being visualized.

Re: Open Show the Coordinate System in the Table of Contents - Data Source View

KoryKramer — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 18:11:46 GMT

For troubleshooting and better understanding the various coordinate systems used by multiple layers within a map, you can go to Map Properties > Coordinate Systems: