topic displaying XY Data properly - coordinate issue? in ArcGIS Enterprise Portal Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-portal-questions/displaying-xy-data-properly-coordinate-issue/m-p/333632#M4537 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Okay, I know the issue, but don't know how to go about fixing this.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am trying to display XY data from a .dbf file i created from an excel sheet. The lat and long in the table is in decimal degrees which is no big deal however when I display XY data, it is putting the points way off from where they should be. I already have the coordinate system set up in the data frame based off of a parcel layer. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Projected Coordinate System: NAD_1983_StatePlane_California_VI_FIPS_0406_Feet</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1983</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What I realized is happening, is that while my display is showing coordinates in decimal degrees, the points are being mapped in feet.&nbsp; I have never had to play with coordinate systems too much to know enough to fix what I think is the problem.&nbsp; Anybody have any ideas?&nbsp; When I change the display to show coordinates in feet the points are displaying correctly, but that isn't what I want.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>[ATTACH=CONFIG]25227[/ATTACH]</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:08:41 GMT DerekNewland 2013-06-12T17:08:41Z displaying XY Data properly - coordinate issue? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-portal-questions/displaying-xy-data-properly-coordinate-issue/m-p/333632#M4537 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Okay, I know the issue, but don't know how to go about fixing this.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am trying to display XY data from a .dbf file i created from an excel sheet. The lat and long in the table is in decimal degrees which is no big deal however when I display XY data, it is putting the points way off from where they should be. I already have the coordinate system set up in the data frame based off of a parcel layer. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Projected Coordinate System: NAD_1983_StatePlane_California_VI_FIPS_0406_Feet</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1983</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What I realized is happening, is that while my display is showing coordinates in decimal degrees, the points are being mapped in feet.&nbsp; I have never had to play with coordinate systems too much to know enough to fix what I think is the problem.&nbsp; Anybody have any ideas?&nbsp; When I change the display to show coordinates in feet the points are displaying correctly, but that isn't what I want.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>[ATTACH=CONFIG]25227[/ATTACH]</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:08:41 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-portal-questions/displaying-xy-data-properly-coordinate-issue/m-p/333632#M4537 DerekNewland 2013-06-12T17:08:41Z