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Format coordinates in a variety of common notations.

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Use case

The coordinate formatter can format a map location in WGS84 in a number of common coordinate notations. Parsing one of these formats to a location is also supported. Formats include decimal degrees; degrees, minutes, seconds; Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM), and United States National Grid (USNG).

How to use the sample

Click on the map to see a callout with the clicked location’s coordinate formatted in 4 different ways. You can also put a coordinate string in any of these formats in the text field. Hit ‘Enter’ and the coordinate string will be parsed to a map location which the callout will move to.

How it works

  1. Get or create a map Point with a spatial reference.
  2. Use one of the static “to” methods on CoordinateFormatter such as CoordinateFormatter.toLatitudeLongitude(point, CoordinateFormatter.LatitudeLongitudeFormat.DECIMAL_DEGREES, 4) to get the formatted string.
  3. To go from a formatted string to a Point, use one of the “from” static methods like CoordinateFormatter.fromUtm(coordinateString, map.getSpatialReference(), CoordinateFormatter.UtmConversionMode.LATITUDE_BAND_INDICATORS).

Relevant API

  • CoordinateFormatter

Tags

convert, coordinate, decimal degrees, degree minutes seconds, format, latitude, longitude, USNG, UTM

Sample Code

module-info.java module-info.java FormatCoordinatesSample.java
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module com.esri.samples.format_coordinates {
// require ArcGIS Maps SDK for Java module
requires com.esri.arcgisruntime;
// handle SLF4J http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder
requires org.slf4j.nop;
// require JavaFX modules that the application uses
requires javafx.graphics;
requires javafx.controls;
exports com.esri.samples.format_coordinates;
}