Latitudes are given to the nearest 0.000001. Horizontal positions are specified in geographic coordinates, that is, latitude and longitude.
I personally am fond of exporting to CSV as it makes the data extremely portable to all kinds of programs. Use Save-As to save the data in another format (such as CSV or xlsx).Īlternatively, ArcGIS 10.2 provides several methods for this. This is a database file containing your attribute table.ĬAUTION: although you may find it extremely tempting to edit the data in Excel then re-save it, this will often corrupt your shapefile. You will see various files all named the same but with different file types. Navigate to the directory you saved the shapefile in.