idea ArcGIS Pro 2.6: An option to “clear” the coordinate system of “Map” to get it to “unknown” as it is used to be in ArcMap, in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

ArcGIS Pro 2.6: An option to “clear” the coordinate system of “Map” to get it to “unknown” as it is used to be in ArcMap,

JamalNUMAN — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 11:56:00 GMT

ArcGIS Pro 2.6: An option to “clear” the coordinate system of “Map” to get it to “unknown” as it is used to be in ArcMap,

It would be great if the “clear” option for the coordinate system of “Map” gets available in Pro as it used to be available in ArcMap. In particular cases, it enable us to better understand our data

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.6: An option to “clear” the coordinate system of “Map” to get it to “unknown” as it is used to be in ArcMap,

JamalNUMAN — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 18:30:16 GMT

We are now in 2.4 and still the “clear” command is not there!

For example, in the screenshots below, I wanted to clear the coordinate system of the map so that I can see how the layers are mapped in respect to each other. This is not doable in the arcpro!

Rawan Saleh‌, rawan saleh‌, Ahmad Saleh‌

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.6: An option to “clear” the coordinate system of “Map” to get it to “unknown” as it is used to be in ArcMap,

TimAlbert — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 23:59:24 GMT

I agree that the ability to have no coordinate system for a map ArcGIS Pro would be very useful and I use it all the time in ArcMap. My application is managing the building interior of our airport terminal. The original data was in millimeters in a CAD format. I moved the data into a Geodatabase and maintained the millimeter units and rotation of the information and did not apply a projection. This has allowed me to easily work with the data, update it based on new CAD information I receive and still use the power of GIS to display and manage the data. I simply set my map coordinate system to none and the units to millimeters,

If I would have georeferenced and projected the data into UTM Zone10 NAD83, as we use for the rest of the airport, the building would be rotated and the units in meters making it difficult to deal with.

Since I do need a projected version of the data for use in ArcGIS Online, I use FME (www.safe.com) to automatically rotate, scale and shift the data into the correct geographic location and create a Geodatabase version I can upload to ArcGIS Online.

So please implement this in ArcGIS Pro so I can move into it from ArcMap.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.6: An option to “clear” the coordinate system of “Map” to get it to “unknown” as it is used to be in ArcMap,

DanSmith27 — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 17:35:54 GMT

Any movement on this? I agree with the posters above that think we need to clear the coordinate system - unless there's another solution to see the actual coords data is drawn in without opening it in CAD or ArcMap

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.6: An option to “clear” the coordinate system of “Map” to get it to “unknown” as it is used to be in ArcMap, - Status changed to: In Product Plan

KoryKramer — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 15:58:01 GMT

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.6: An option to “clear” the coordinate system of “Map” to get it to “unknown” as it is used to be in ArcMap, - Status changed to: Implemented

AmeliaBradshaw — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:16:52 GMT

This Idea has been implemented in ArcGIS Pro 3.2. Please see the What's New documentation for more new features in Pro 3.2.

The Your Ideas in ArcGIS Pro 3.2 blog and video have been posted to the Esri Community blog. You can take a look at these to see your idea and all others that were implemented in this release of ArcGIS Pro.

Add ability to have no Coordinate System in a map

RTPL_AU — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:40:30 GMT

When working with data in ArcMap you have an option to remove/clear the Coordinate System from a map so the raw geometry is displayed.

Please add this ability to Pro.

This is very handy when working with CAD data in Australia where you may have 4 similar but different coordinate systems / datums in play in a project (AGD66/84, GDA94, GDA2020, WGS84) and you just want to compare geometry without any 'smarts' coming to play.

Re: Add ability to have no Coordinate System in a map - Status changed to: Needs Clarification

TanuHoque — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:41:10 GMT

@RTPL_AU

ArcGIS Pro introduces Unknown coordinate system in 3.2. Is that not working for you?

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/mapping/properties/use-an-unknown-coordinate-system.htm

Re: Add ability to have no Coordinate System in a map

BSBlagojevic — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:38:49 GMT

@TanuHoque Nice NEWS! Thank you for info! I missed it.

Re: Add ability to have no Coordinate System in a map

RTPL_AU — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:48:25 GMT

@TanuHoque Broken link but thank you. "prodev" host seems to be the issue.

That seems it.

I saw it but to me, Unknown did not have the same meaning as "Clear" coordinate system.

Please close.

Re: Add ability to have no Coordinate System in a map

RTPL_AU — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:05:51 GMT

@TanuHoque I had a quick look through the "What's new" for 3.2 & 3.3 and saw no mention of this.

@KoryKramer With fewer changes you'll have more time for documentation & communications to inform existing customers of these small things 🙂
Tip - when changing the words used to describe 'old' features make sure legacy documentation has updated search triggers so latest docs are promoted to Google, DDG, etc. Because Pro is so unstable (as in changes so often) if I search for things I generally set it to show results from the last year to prevent old community forum posts clogging the results.
This one is still a top search return and you have not gone back to let the OP know it has been fixed, so anyone reading it (me too) thinks it is unresolved (and you call it 'clear the coordinate system'....)
https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/how-to-clear-the-coordinate-system-of-the-map-to/td-p/120403

Re: Add ability to have no Coordinate System in a map - Status changed to: Implemented

TanuHoque — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 01:06:56 GMT

It was implemented in ArcGIS Pro 3.2.

Please see the details in a comment above https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/arcgis-pro-2-6-an-option-to-clear-the-coordinate/idc-p/1357476/highlight/true#M27422

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Re: Add ability to have no Coordinate System in a map

RTPL_AU — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:46:06 GMT

@TanuHoque
Thank you for fixing the link - maybe edit the post to clarify.

Re: Add ability to have no Coordinate System in a map

TanuHoque — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:48:51 GMT

Sorry @RTPL_AU about the broken link. I just fixed that.

Also, just realized it is a duplicate of an existing idea. I'm merging this with that the previous idea.

thank you both @RTPL_AU & @BSBlagojevic

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.6: An option to “clear” the coordinate system of “Map” to get it to “unknown” as it is used to be in ArcMap,

RTPL_AU — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:51:55 GMT

And this idea also links to this question that comes up in most searches about the topic.

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/how-to-clear-the-coordinate-system-of-the-map-to/td-p/120403

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.6: An option to “clear” the coordinate system of “Map” to get it to “unknown” as it is used to be in ArcMap,

TanuHoque — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 01:08:12 GMT

thanks @RTPL_AU for sharing the thread with the same question. I have already updated that thread. Please let us know if you have any question.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.6: An option to “clear” the coordinate system of “Map” to get it to “unknown” as it is used to be in ArcMap,

curtvprice — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 23:09:53 GMT

Hooray!