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Geometry doesn't include Z and M values

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12-08-2010 03:22 PM
garrethmorgan
Emerging Contributor
I can't see any way to add Z and M values to the geometry of a feature.
What's up with that? Am I missing something?
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AkhilParujanwala
Regular Contributor
Can you explain what you want further? You want Z (M), meaning altitude? Well generally a field to hold the third piece of information regarding what you are collecting?

If you want altitude from the GPS, you can add a field in your feature class called Altitude, and program to get the atltitude of the point and set the altitude field with that value.

There is a sample on how to do it.
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garrethmorgan
Emerging Contributor
I just don't see why they haven't carried the Z and M fields through to ArcGIS Mobile. ArcPad supports them as does ArcGIS Desktop, why not ArcGIS Mobile?

Yes I could add Attributes to the feature to support them, but then I would have to post-process the data back on the desktop to transfer over the information to the correct fields in the geometry.
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