Go To XY Lat-Lon Pair Input Box

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04-18-2012 09:33 AM
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CameronLarson
New Contributor II

The Go To XY tool should have a single input box where you can paste lat/lon pairs like you might copy from two adjacent cells in a spreadsheet. Add a toggle that allows you to switch between lat/lon and lon/lat.

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Bud
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@PeteJordan Thanks for bringing up the Locate pane. I had mostly forgotten about it.

The coordinates I want to bring up in the ArcGIS Pro map are often in lat/long format, like this: 

44.723320, -77.544250

But the Go To XY widget is in long/lat format. So I need to flip the coordinates when entering them, which is an extra step:

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Whereas the Locate pane seems to be able to handle either long/lat or lat/long. So that saves a step.

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Bud
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For what it's worth, this is the format coordinates are in when I'm copying them to the Go To XY tool in Pro:


Lat: 44.72332° N
Lon: 77.54425° W

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Or:
 
44.723320, -77.544250

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PeteJordan

@Bud, yes I often am getting corrdinates from places like Google so haveing to re-arrage them was always a pain to do with the extra steps to make it work in the Go To XY tool.  I also like how it just makes another pane on the side of Arc that I don't have to search for.  If I have my Attribute Editor up in the bottom as I often do, I have to move that, to move the Go To XY tool to a visible space on the map.

  So it's now I don't have any use for that tool anymore since the Locate tool does everything better and much more efficiently...