topic Re: Passing Lat/Long to attributre table in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/passing-lat-long-to-attributre-table/m-p/419023#M23900 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Create lat and lon (Double) fields in the point attribute table, then right click each column header and choose Calculate Geometry. (assuming version 10).</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:54:02 GMT KevinMayall 2012-10-17T15:54:02Z Passing Lat/Long to attributre table https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/passing-lat-long-to-attributre-table/m-p/419022#M23899 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm trying to grab the Lat/Long of an existing point file and pass that into the attribute table.&nbsp; Is there a way to capture the lat/long of an existing point and write it to a field in the table?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Randy</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:34:53 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/passing-lat-long-to-attributre-table/m-p/419022#M23899 RandyWright 2012-10-17T13:34:53Z Re: Passing Lat/Long to attributre table https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/passing-lat-long-to-attributre-table/m-p/419023#M23900 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Create lat and lon (Double) fields in the point attribute table, then right click each column header and choose Calculate Geometry. (assuming version 10).</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:54:02 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/passing-lat-long-to-attributre-table/m-p/419023#M23900 KevinMayall 2012-10-17T15:54:02Z Re: Passing Lat/Long to attributre table https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/passing-lat-long-to-attributre-table/m-p/419024#M23901 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">Create lat and lon (Double) fields in the point attribute table, then right click each column header and choose Calculate Geometry. (assuming version 10).</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks, that worked.&nbsp; I also learned the calculation field must be string rather than numeric or the results are unpredictable.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:17:30 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/passing-lat-long-to-attributre-table/m-p/419024#M23901 RandyWright 2012-10-17T20:17:30Z