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Get Longitude(x)/Latitude(Y) from Google MapAdd geographical Data in Arc GIS

GIS in Health and Planning2012 SpringRutgers Universityby Wansoo Im, Ph.D.

SEARCH FOR THE LOCATION

Right click – click “What’s here?”

YOU WILL SEE ‘LONGITUDE(X)/LATIITUDE (Y)’ DATA IN THE SEARCH BAR X(longtitude) : -74.445872

Y(latitude) : 40.497304

CREATE EXCEL FILE

Save file as xls. Format – Excel 97-2003 workbook

WARNING!!!

Make sure if you close your Excel file after you save it.

If Excel file is open, then you will see an error message in Arc GIS when you try to open the excel file.

OPEN ARC GIS ->ADD XY DATA

CLICK THE FOLDER ICON TO SEARCH FOR EXCEL FILE

->Select Sheet where you put the data

MAKE SURE X-Y FIELD MATCH YOUR EXCEL FIELD LATITUDE – LONGITUDEAND YOU NEED TO DEFINE PROJECTION

X field : Longitude

Y field : Latitude

Click “Edit” to change Projection

Helpful link :

http://ic.ucdavis.edu/information/GPStoArcGIS9.pdf

PROJECTION

Geographic Coordinate Systems: Choose “World” , then choose “WGS1984.prj” file.

Click “Apply”, and “OK”

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OUTCOME

You can export the file as a new shape file, so we can use it for analysis.