GIS Assignment 2

A Brief explanation (not more than a page) on how to export GPS data into
ArcGIS
Set Up Your Data

Convert your coordinates into an x,y z table format (lat,long).It is important that you know the
coordinate system of the x,y,z data.There are a few options for x,y,z coordinate
conversion.Latitude and Longitude outside of GIS are often expressed in degrees, minutes

Importing Data

Layers added from x,y points are called “event layers”Click the “Add Data” button. Then
choose the spreadsheet file with your GPS data. (this can also be done using Tools > Add XY
Data Right click the Table Name and choose “Display XY Data” Set the “X” field to the
Longitude and the “Y” field to the Latitud, seconds. These must be converted, using a
spreadsheet software such as MS Excel, into Decimal Degrees.steps

1. Open Microsoft Excel and write the (x-y-z data) collected using GPS device
2. Then convert these coordinates into text data by simply saving the excel in TEXT (Tab
Delimited) format
3. Open or Add xyz coordinates saved in text tab delimited format in Arc GIS (double click
or drag &drop) or in latest versions of Arc Map, double click the excel data with xls
format after changing the data into txt file, then highlight and click Sheet1$, which is
equivalent to the txt delimited format data.
4. Highlight the text delimited format data in the table of contents under Arc Map
5. Click File and click Add Data, then click Add XY Data
6. In the Add XY data dialog box, open the text delimited file, then specify the fields: X for
X, Y for Y, and Z for z
7. In the same dialog box, click EDIT to give the data a special reference property, i. e.,
Edit, projected coordinates, UTM, Northern, WGS 84 37N. Then click ok, ok. The Steps
4-8 can also be performed by highlighting and right clicking on the .txt data layer, then
clicking DISPLAY XY DATA, then assigning x, y, z and projections.
8. These process will create Events with extension .txt Events
9. . Then to change this file into shape file, right click the txt Event file and click Data, then
click EXPORT DATA, then the export data dialog box will appear
10. Then click the radio button ‘this layer’s source data’ to give the same projection as the
source .

11. Identify out data location/folder and the feature class (.shp) and give new name for the
output dat,In the save as a type, select shape file a Then hit ok. Then click YES

12. Finally, we will see the shape file containing xyz coordinates.

Specialization of hydraulic engineering

GIS Assignment 2

Specialization of hydraulic engineering