topic Re: Finding Degrees Minutes Seconds in Data Management Questions

Finding Degrees Minutes Seconds

AlexanderBesemann1 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:06:56 GMT

Hi,

I was wondering if there is a way to get the attribute table to populate in Degrees, Minutes, Seconds format. I know how to do it with the extension XToolsPro but I am not able to use that since it isn't an option through my ArcMap tools. I have tried using the calculate geometry which allows me to do Decimal Degrees and other ways but not DMS. My question is can someone help or explain to me how I could go about that instead of writing them down and typing them individually for each point; a few wouldn't be horrible but I have more then a few. Decimal degrees works for now for the person I helped but he/she would like DMS later and I thought I would explore and see if I could get help to figure it out. Since the way I know how to isn't a possiblity.

Thanks
Alex

Re: Finding Degrees Minutes Seconds

DarrenWiens2 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:42:46 GMT

What version of ArcGIS are you using? Mine (v10) has the option to calculate DMS under units.

edit: you have more options for units in a text column. Obviously, you can't jam DMS into a numeric field because there are spaces, letters, quotes, and degree symbol.

Re: Finding Degrees Minutes Seconds

AlexanderBesemann1 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:00:11 GMT

I also am using (v10) I didn't even think about text... duh! Thank you. I just tried it and it came out to look like:

352840* 20' 17.155" x 5332075* 18' 45.208" So I have the format right.. Should have thought about it using 'Text'

so now my question is why are the degrees outerageously high then expected? Probably another thing I can think of either.

Thank you very much!

Alex

Re: Finding Degrees Minutes Seconds

DanLee — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:32:44 GMT

There is a Convert Coordinate Notation (Data Management toolbox - Projections and Transformation toolset):
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Convert_Coordinate_Notation/0017000000tw000000/

I haven't used it myself, but thought it may be helpful?