[UW-GIS-L] way to get point XY locations to output?

[David Finlayson]

VBA = 144 lines
AML = 5 lines

AML is 28.8 times more efficient. (It probably executes faster too) 
Seems about normal for ArcGIS.

Then again, how do you load a table of points and attributes into 
ArcInfo again?? ;)

David

Harvey Greenberg wrote:
> Okay, you do it the hard way, but:
> Arc: addxy mycover
> Arc: tables
> Tables: sel mycover.pat
> Tables: items
> Tables: unload myfile.txt /* or add arguments to select specific items
> 
> harvey
> 
> Sacha Vignieri wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I have sample locations plotted on a map, in UTM units. My point data 
>> was originally converted from lat long, but I need to get a table of 
>> their locations in UTM coordinates. I know I can get these coordinates 
>> by using the identify pointer, however, I have 228 of them, so it will 
>> take some time to do point by point. My question is whether anyone 
>> knows of a way to get ArcGIS to output a table of all the point XY 
>> coordinates in UTM, is there a command? Has anyone had experience with 
>> this kind of process who might know of a shortcut?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Sacha Vignieri
>> Department of Biology
>> University of Washington
>>
>>
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