topic Re: go to a lat/long in Mapping Questions

go to a lat/long

MikeHenson — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:13:46 GMT

I have a list of meter locations from a rural water system. The coordinates are in lat/long. How can I type in lat/long in arcmap and have it show me that location? Any help will be greatly appreciate.

Re: go to a lat/long

IanMurray — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:21:14 GMT

Hi Mike,

Go to the customize tab, and turn on the geocoding toolbar. On the bar there is the option to type in addresses, or lat/long coordinates. Type the coordinates, then if it find the location, right click on the bar and select zoom to or pan to. Should make it easy to navigate to.

If you have the coordinates in a table format, you can import the the table into arcmap and create an xy event layer from the coordinates, which makes it much easier to view your points then just zooming to them with no representation. Check this link for that. ArcGIS Desktop

Re: go to a lat/long

MikeHenson — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:30:03 GMT

thanks for that reply, but all I see is "type an address" in the geocoding toolbar

Re: go to a lat/long

IanMurray — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:31:33 GMT

It says type an address, but you can also type in lat/long coordinates, just make sure they are comma seperated(i.e. 55.34212,-74.31234)

Re: go to a lat/long

MikeHenson — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:40:07 GMT

keep getting a message "address not found"

Re: go to a lat/long

IanMurray — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:55:30 GMT

Hmmm,

To the left of the type an address bar, there is a bar that picks your geocoding service, make sure it is using World Geocode Service(ArcGIS Online).

More help on the Geocoding Toolbar

ArcGIS Desktop

Re: go to a lat/long

MikeHenson — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:05:27 GMT

still not getting it. See attached image. That service was not available. I tried the others but still get the error

Re: go to a lat/long

IanMurray — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:07:38 GMT

Try dropping that 0 from in from of that first number, that is probably messing it up. I'm on ArcGIS 10.2.2 hence why the geocoding services are different, I'm guessing you are on 10.0?

Re: go to a lat/long

MikeHenson — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:10:42 GMT

Thanks, but I tried that already.

Re: go to a lat/long

IanMurray — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:19:42 GMT

I'm trying not to pull my hair out over this, as this should be such a simple thing to do!

okay, so checking some more help files, and testing the coordinates from your screenshot, it appears that the longitude needs to be put in first, then latitude. I got the location just south of Ozark, Arkansas. Apparently the preferred format for inputting Lat/ Long is like so, W93.834, N35.475 or -93.834, 35.475(see the help below for acceptable Lat/Long formats).

ArcGIS Desktop

Re: go to a lat/long

MikeHenson — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:30:35 GMT

ok...just noticed this. When I changed locator service, I get an error. I connected to a state address locator, and it works if I use format w93.xxxxx, n35.xxxxx

Re: go to a lat/long

IanMurray — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:32:36 GMT

As long as it works for you. Sorry it took so long to get it working for you.

Re: go to a lat/long

JorgeOrellana — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:33:03 GMT

Have you tried the Go to XY tool? Should be part of the "Tools" toolbar. The little black triangle pointing down is where you can change the units of the coordinates you want to input.

Re: go to a lat/long

MikeHenson — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:50:52 GMT

wow...that works great. Thanks for the reply

Re: go to a lat/long

MikeHenson — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:51:32 GMT

Ian....I appreciate you staying with me on this issue!

Re: go to a lat/long

IanMurray — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:25:38 GMT

Wow I knew there was a better tool but for the life of me I couldn't think of it, I've gotten so use to the address locator bar for quick navigation. My bad on not remembering that one sooner