topic Re: Looking for best approach for importing and re-projecting points in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/looking-for-best-approach-for-importing-and-re/m-p/641420#M49980 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">Hello,<BR /><BR />I'm hoping to put together a python script that reads xml files and creates new points in an existing feature class. The xml has the point data in lat / long (NAD83); however, the target feature class is NAD27 state plane oregon north.<BR /><BR />Am I correct in saying that there isn't really a way to re-project individual point geometries ... and that I'd need to create a featureset (or feature class, this is 9.3) in memory to call the project tool, then read possibly append that point data to the target fc?<BR /><BR />Thanks in advance,<BR /><BR />JB</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>If you are using an InsertCursor to append the data, you can define the spatial reference of the cursor which should transform the geometry.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Setting_a_cursor_s_spatial_reference/002z0000001w000000/">http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Setting_a_cursor_s_spatial_reference/002z0000001w000000/</A></BODY></HTML> Tue, 10 May 2011 16:01:54 GMT deleted-user-1T_bOHag6M8d 2011-05-10T16:01:54Z Looking for best approach for importing and re-projecting points https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/looking-for-best-approach-for-importing-and-re/m-p/641419#M49979 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm hoping to put together a python script that reads xml files and creates new points in an existing feature class. The xml has the point data in lat / long (NAD83); however, the target feature class is NAD27 state plane oregon north.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Am I correct in saying that there isn't really a way to re-project individual point geometries ... and that I'd need to create a featureset (or feature class, this is 9.3) in memory to call the project tool, then read possibly append that point data to the target fc?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>JB</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 10 May 2011 06:57:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/looking-for-best-approach-for-importing-and-re/m-p/641419#M49979 JessB 2011-05-10T06:57:23Z Re: Looking for best approach for importing and re-projecting points https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/looking-for-best-approach-for-importing-and-re/m-p/641420#M49980 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">Hello,<BR /><BR />I'm hoping to put together a python script that reads xml files and creates new points in an existing feature class. The xml has the point data in lat / long (NAD83); however, the target feature class is NAD27 state plane oregon north.<BR /><BR />Am I correct in saying that there isn't really a way to re-project individual point geometries ... and that I'd need to create a featureset (or feature class, this is 9.3) in memory to call the project tool, then read possibly append that point data to the target fc?<BR /><BR />Thanks in advance,<BR /><BR />JB</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>If you are using an InsertCursor to append the data, you can define the spatial reference of the cursor which should transform the geometry.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Setting_a_cursor_s_spatial_reference/002z0000001w000000/">http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Setting_a_cursor_s_spatial_reference/002z0000001w000000/</A></BODY></HTML> Tue, 10 May 2011 16:01:54 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/looking-for-best-approach-for-importing-and-re/m-p/641420#M49980 deleted-user-1T_bOHag6M8d 2011-05-10T16:01:54Z