Hi: In such situations we often recommend making sure that your longitude/latitude values have the correct +/- prefix, or that you are using the correct projection and coordinate system. Can you provide an example x/y value from your table? Maptitude Mapping Software <http://www.caliper.com> Group Moderator
--- In [email protected], "Bonzoboy" wrote: > > I have a huge amount of data in an excel sheet. (Locational Data are in both Lat/Long and FIPS Code, around columns 20-23) > > I open the data from Maptitude as Excel (as per a previous note in this discussion). > > Now, I don't select and "x/y" coordinate (I didn't recall that I needed to do that). > > But what results is a default, WORLD VIEW, with a series of datapoints noted in the Eastern Hemisphere, starting in North Africa and passing through Uzbekistan. (All my data are in actually in the US). > > Any suggestions for simplification? Seems like if I don't use this every day, I often end up starting at ground zero. >
