How do I export Lat/Long in ArcView?

Hi Everyone,

I've searched through the topics, but can't find anything specific to
my question. I have a point file of UTM coordinates. I reprojected
into GCS_NorthAmerican_1983, and now I can get the Lat/Long info that I
need by clicking on the point with the ID button; however, I don't know
how to export the Lat/Long coordinates for each point into a .dbf file.
When I do the regular export, The fields I get are what I have
already, which are the UTM coordinate numbers.

Is there a way to export the file and get the lat/longs, instead of
having to manually use the ID function for every site and then entering
the lat/longs into a corresponding file?

Thanks,
Dara

rocketD wrote:

Have you tried any of the open source toolsets? The OGR package
(http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ ) would be able to do this easily.

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/faq/projconversion

So, in your case, your command would be:

$ ogr2ogr -s_srs EPSG:26910 -t_srs EPSG:4326 output.shp input.shp

where EPSG:4326 would be your output projection and EPSG:26910 would be
your input project (NAD83, UTM zone 10, for example, though I'm not
sure of your UTM zone).

..Tom

Whether you are using the old ArcView GIS 3.x or the current ArcGIS ArcView,
there are well documented ways of doing this. For old ArcView, look on the
ArcScripts forums - I think there is a script called "addxy.ave" that will
do this for you - it is a few lines of avenue code. In ArcGIS, look in the
help for calculating fields in attribute tables. There is a code snippet
(with instructions) that will do this for you, only about 4 lines.

MK