topic Re: Best projected coordinate system (meters) for Southeastern US in Coordinate Reference Systems Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/coordinate-reference-systems-questions/best-projected-coordinate-system-meters-for/m-p/868547#M1676 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Melita,</P><P></P><P>We'll be creating a pairwise distance matrix of bird locations to look at geographic distance coupled with genetic distance for speciation purposes. I don't think extremely precise distances will be needed, so I've just put them in USA_Contiguous_Albers_Equal_Area_Conic_USGS_version for now. Was just curious&nbsp;to see if anything for the SE USA existed that might be a better fit for that region/yield more accurate measurements than Albers EAC. Thank you!</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 06 Dec 2019 19:47:45 GMT BrittanyBankovich 2019-12-06T19:47:45Z Best projected coordinate system (meters) for Southeastern US https://community.esri.com/t5/coordinate-reference-systems-questions/best-projected-coordinate-system-meters-for/m-p/868545#M1674 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Any suggestions for the best projected coordinate system (in meters) for the Southeastern US, particularly the state of Florida (entire state), coastal Georgia, and coastal Alabama and Mississippi?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 06 Dec 2019 17:03:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/coordinate-reference-systems-questions/best-projected-coordinate-system-meters-for/m-p/868545#M1674 BrittanyBankovich 2019-12-06T17:03:45Z Re: Best projected coordinate system (meters) for Southeastern US https://community.esri.com/t5/coordinate-reference-systems-questions/best-projected-coordinate-system-meters-for/m-p/868546#M1675 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>There's nothing already defined. What will you be doing with the data? Any analyses? What kind? Display only? Etc.</P><P></P><P>Melita</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 06 Dec 2019 19:30:01 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/coordinate-reference-systems-questions/best-projected-coordinate-system-meters-for/m-p/868546#M1675 MelitaKennedy 2019-12-06T19:30:01Z Re: Best projected coordinate system (meters) for Southeastern US https://community.esri.com/t5/coordinate-reference-systems-questions/best-projected-coordinate-system-meters-for/m-p/868547#M1676 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Melita,</P><P></P><P>We'll be creating a pairwise distance matrix of bird locations to look at geographic distance coupled with genetic distance for speciation purposes. I don't think extremely precise distances will be needed, so I've just put them in USA_Contiguous_Albers_Equal_Area_Conic_USGS_version for now. Was just curious&nbsp;to see if anything for the SE USA existed that might be a better fit for that region/yield more accurate measurements than Albers EAC. Thank you!</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 06 Dec 2019 19:47:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/coordinate-reference-systems-questions/best-projected-coordinate-system-meters-for/m-p/868547#M1676 BrittanyBankovich 2019-12-06T19:47:45Z Re: Best projected coordinate system (meters) for Southeastern US https://community.esri.com/t5/coordinate-reference-systems-questions/best-projected-coordinate-system-meters-for/m-p/868548#M1677 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You can also consider creating a custom version based on <A class="link-titled" href="https://projectionwizard.org/" title="https://projectionwizard.org/">Projection Wizard</A>&nbsp;tool. Just an idea.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 06 Dec 2019 21:45:58 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/coordinate-reference-systems-questions/best-projected-coordinate-system-meters-for/m-p/868548#M1677 BojanŠavrič 2019-12-06T21:45:58Z Re: Best projected coordinate system (meters) for Southeastern US https://community.esri.com/t5/coordinate-reference-systems-questions/best-projected-coordinate-system-meters-for/m-p/868549#M1678 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi <A href="https://community.esri.com/migrated-users/170368">Brittany Bankovich</A>‌,&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>If you are going for an aesthetic appearance, depending on the size of the region you could look at creating a custom Lambert Conformal Conic by adjusting the Central meridian and the Standard Parallels.&nbsp; See&nbsp;<A class="link-titled" href="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/map/projections/lambert-conformal-conic.htm" title="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/map/projections/lambert-conformal-conic.htm">Lambert conformal conic—Help | Documentation</A>&nbsp; for background on the projection. You can also see the comments section of&nbsp;&nbsp;<A href="https://community.esri.com/thread/231792">How to choose standard parallels and central meridian for area of interest?</A>&nbsp;for further information.</P><P></P><P style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shane&nbsp;</P><HR style="background-color: #ffffff;" /><P style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 0px; padding: 0px;"><EM style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0px;">If this answer was helpful please mark it as helpful. If this answer solved your question please mark it as the answer to help others who have the same question.</EM></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 Mar 2020 08:41:38 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/coordinate-reference-systems-questions/best-projected-coordinate-system-meters-for/m-p/868549#M1678 ShaneMiles 2020-03-24T08:41:38Z