Add XY Coordinates

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04-29-2020 10:52 AM
DavidNoble
New Contributor II

Trying to get the lat/long for some hand-placed points to populate in the table.  Using the Add XY Coordinates tool, or any other that does similar is giving me coordinates that are not correct...like way not correct.  They should be in the -80, 40 range for decimal degrees and I'm getting 4886139.1982, -8888010.8724.  What am I doing wrong?  I've tried everything I can think of.

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DanPatterson_Retired
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Looks like you have projected coordinates, hence either the map or the featureclass is in a projected coordinate system.

Add Geometry Attributes—Data Management toolbox | Documentation 

specify the point centroid and specify a suitable Geographic Coordinate system for the output (eg GCS NAD83, GCS WGS84)

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