Format coordinates in a variety of common notations.

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
- Get or create a map
Pointwith a spatial reference. - Use one of the static “to” methods on
CoordinateFormattersuch asCoordinateFormatter.toLatitudeLongitude(point, CoordinateFormatter.LatitudeLongitudeFormat.DECIMAL_DEGREES, 4)to get the formatted string. - To go from a formatted string to a
Point, use one of the “from” static methods likeCoordinateFormatter.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
/* * Copyright 2022 Esri. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */
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;}/* * Copyright 2018 Esri. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not * use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of * the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under * the License. */
package com.esri.samples.format_coordinates;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.ArcGISRuntimeException;import com.esri.arcgisruntime.geometry.CoordinateFormatter;import com.esri.arcgisruntime.geometry.Point;import com.esri.arcgisruntime.layers.ArcGISTiledLayer;import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.ArcGISMap;import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.Basemap;import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.view.Callout;import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.view.MapView;import javafx.application.Application;import javafx.geometry.Insets;import javafx.geometry.Point2D;import javafx.geometry.Pos;import javafx.scene.Scene;import javafx.scene.control.Label;import javafx.scene.control.TextField;import javafx.scene.input.MouseButton;import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class FormatCoordinatesSample extends Application {
private MapView mapView; private Callout callout; private Label decimalDegreesLabel; private Label degMinSecLabel; private Label utmLabel; private Label usngLabel;
@Override public void start(Stage stage) {
try { // create stack pane and application scene StackPane stackPane = new StackPane(); Scene scene = new Scene(stackPane);
// set title, size, and add scene to stage stage.setTitle("Format Coordinates Sample"); stage.setWidth(800); stage.setHeight(700); stage.setScene(scene); stage.show();
// create a map with a wgs84 basemap and set it to the map view mapView = new MapView(); ArcGISTiledLayer basemapLayer = new ArcGISTiledLayer("https://wi.maptiles.arcgis" + ".com/arcgis/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer"); Basemap basemap = new Basemap(basemapLayer); ArcGISMap map = new ArcGISMap(basemap); mapView.setMap(map);
// configure the callout to show coordinate information callout = mapView.getCallout(); decimalDegreesLabel = new Label(); degMinSecLabel = new Label(); utmLabel = new Label(); usngLabel = new Label(); var calloutVBox = new VBox(); calloutVBox.setMinWidth(400); calloutVBox.setMaxWidth(400); calloutVBox.getChildren().addAll(decimalDegreesLabel, degMinSecLabel, utmLabel, usngLabel); callout.setCustomView(calloutVBox);
// click event to display the callout with the formatted coordinates of the clicked location mapView.setOnMouseClicked(e -> { // check that the primary mouse button was clicked and user is not panning if (e.isStillSincePress() && e.getButton() == MouseButton.PRIMARY) { // get the map point where the user clicked Point2D point = new Point2D(e.getX(), e.getY()); Point mapPoint = mapView.screenToLocation(point); // show the callout at the point with the different coordinate format strings showCalloutWithLocationCoordinates(mapPoint); } });
// create text field to input user's own coordinate string TextField input = new TextField(); input.setMaxWidth(300); input.setPromptText("Input a coordinate string (LatLon, UTM, or USNG)"); input.setOnAction(e -> { String inputText = input.getText(); if (!"".equals(inputText)) { // try each coordinate format converter, use the first one with the correct format try { Point point = CoordinateFormatter.fromLatitudeLongitude(inputText, map.getSpatialReference()); showCalloutWithLocationCoordinates(point); return; } catch (ArcGISRuntimeException ex) { // ignore, wrong format } try { Point point = CoordinateFormatter.fromUtm(inputText, map.getSpatialReference(), CoordinateFormatter.UtmConversionMode.LATITUDE_BAND_INDICATORS); showCalloutWithLocationCoordinates(point); return; } catch (ArcGISRuntimeException ex) { // ignore, wrong format } try { Point point = CoordinateFormatter.fromUsng(inputText, map.getSpatialReference()); showCalloutWithLocationCoordinates(point); } catch (ArcGISRuntimeException ex) { // ignore, wrong format } } });
// add map view and text field to stack pane stackPane.getChildren().addAll(mapView, input); StackPane.setAlignment(input, Pos.TOP_LEFT); StackPane.setMargin(input, new Insets(10, 0, 0, 10)); } catch (Exception e) { // on any error, print the stack trace e.printStackTrace(); } }
/** * Shows a callout at the specified location with different coordinate formats displayed within the callout view. * * @param location coordinate to show coordinate formats for */ private void showCalloutWithLocationCoordinates(Point location) { // update callout content to show information for provided location decimalDegreesLabel.setText("Decimal Degrees: " + CoordinateFormatter.toLatitudeLongitude(location, CoordinateFormatter.LatitudeLongitudeFormat.DECIMAL_DEGREES, 4)); degMinSecLabel.setText("DMS: " + CoordinateFormatter.toLatitudeLongitude(location, CoordinateFormatter.LatitudeLongitudeFormat.DEGREES_MINUTES_SECONDS, 1)); utmLabel.setText("UTM: " + CoordinateFormatter.toUtm(location, CoordinateFormatter.UtmConversionMode.LATITUDE_BAND_INDICATORS, true)); usngLabel.setText("USNG: " + CoordinateFormatter.toUsng(location, 4, true)); // display the callout callout.showCalloutAt(location); }
/** * Stops and releases all resources used in application. */ @Override public void stop() {
// release resources when the application closes if (mapView != null) { mapView.dispose(); } }
/** * Opens and runs application. * * @param args arguments passed to this application */ public static void main(String[] args) {
Application.launch(args); }
}