topic plot a polygon from a row with 4 coordinates in Defense and Intelligence Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/defense-and-intelligence-questions/plot-a-polygon-from-a-row-with-4-coordinates/m-p/129209#M26 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have a excel file with multiple sheets.&nbsp; one sheet called polygons contains rows with the fields:&nbsp; name, description, startlatN, startlonW, startlatS, startlonW, endlatN, endlonE, endlatS, endlonE</P><P>the start and ends have decimal degrees latitude and longitude values.&nbsp; I'm trying to find a way to plot the four points and convert to polygon without useing xytoevent then pts to line then line to polygon.&nbsp; I thought there was a tool in toolbox which did in line polygon creation.&nbsp; &nbsp;thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 04 Feb 2020 23:00:01 GMT PaulRabatin1 2020-02-04T23:00:01Z plot a polygon from a row with 4 coordinates https://community.esri.com/t5/defense-and-intelligence-questions/plot-a-polygon-from-a-row-with-4-coordinates/m-p/129209#M26 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have a excel file with multiple sheets.&nbsp; one sheet called polygons contains rows with the fields:&nbsp; name, description, startlatN, startlonW, startlatS, startlonW, endlatN, endlonE, endlatS, endlonE</P><P>the start and ends have decimal degrees latitude and longitude values.&nbsp; I'm trying to find a way to plot the four points and convert to polygon without useing xytoevent then pts to line then line to polygon.&nbsp; I thought there was a tool in toolbox which did in line polygon creation.&nbsp; &nbsp;thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 04 Feb 2020 23:00:01 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/defense-and-intelligence-questions/plot-a-polygon-from-a-row-with-4-coordinates/m-p/129209#M26 PaulRabatin1 2020-02-04T23:00:01Z Re: plot a polygon from a row with 4 coordinates https://community.esri.com/t5/defense-and-intelligence-questions/plot-a-polygon-from-a-row-with-4-coordinates/m-p/129210#M27 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Look at the arcpy.Polygon object. Can easily pass an array into it to create your polygons.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 04 Feb 2020 23:05:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/defense-and-intelligence-questions/plot-a-polygon-from-a-row-with-4-coordinates/m-p/129210#M27 DavidPike 2020-02-04T23:05:23Z