How can you update latitude and longitude of points by draging them, and have them update in the attribute table so they can be exported to something like excel with the accurate locations?

[DianeTirianto]

I am conducting a Tree Inventory and our GPS recorder was not accurate. I spent the time to move all the points around in GIS using the editor to place them in their correct locations. However, when I move the points, their latitude and longitude are not updated in the attribute table. So when I export the data to Excel, it does not have the updated coordinates. I want to export to Excel to have a database of all the tree information.

Is there a way to have latitude and longitude by a dynamic part of the attribute table? Or a way to update the new coordinates that have been dragged?

Please Help.

Thank you all!

[DanPatterson_Retired · Accepted solution]

Is it an event layer or a shapefile you are using or a feature class?

X, Y coordinates won't get updated unless you recalculate those fields... preferably in new fields to retain the old information... IN featureclasses Shape_Length and Shape_Area should get updated

You can use Calculate geometry from the table or Add XY coordinates from arctoolbox

[DianeTirianto]

Hello there,

This worked. Thank you!

[DanPatterson_Retired]

glad it worked out Diane

Do heed the warning about not overwriting existing fields... you never know when that data may be important... storage space is cheap, even in files

[BillFox]

Examples:

• Calculating area, length, and other geometric properties—Help | ArcGIS Desktop 
• Calculate Field examples—Help | ArcGIS Desktop 
• How to calculate XY coordinates of the points in ArcGIS – GeoGeek