{"id":174651,"date":"2011-03-11T21:03:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T21:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=174651"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:54:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T19:54:31","slug":"adding-longitude-latitude-lines","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-desktop\/mapping\/adding-longitude-latitude-lines","title":{"rendered":"Adding longitude\/latitude lines"},"author":4331,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[34561,38411],"industry":[],"product":[36991],"class_list":["post-174651","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-grid","tag-mapping-center","product-arcgis-desktop"],"acf":{"short_description":"Question: Hello. I would like add long\/lat lines to a map that I have created. How do you do this?","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong>\u00a0Hello. I would like add long\/lat lines to a map that I have created. How do you do this?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0To add a graticule to your map, see the help topic\u00a0<a title=\"ArcGIS Desktop 10 Help: Adding a graticule\" href=\"http:\/\/help.arcgis.com\/en\/arcgisdesktop\/10.0\/help\/index.html#\/\/00s90000000m000000.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adding a graticule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a map in layout view you use the\u00a0<a title=\"ArcGIS Desktop 10 Help:  A quick tour of data frame grids and the Grids and Graticules Wizard\" href=\"http:\/\/help.arcgis.com\/en\/arcgisdesktop\/10.0\/help\/index.html#\/A_quick_tour_of_data_frame_grids_and_the_Grids_and_Graticules_Wizard\/00s90000000t000000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grids and Graticules Wizard<\/a>\u00a0to add a grid or graticule to your map.\u00a0 Using this method, your grid or graticule will only draw in Layout View and it will always draw on top of all features in your data frame.<\/p>\n<p>If you prefer to use a feature class instead (so the graticule does not draw on top of your map as with the method above), you can find a lat\/long feature class on Esri\u2019s Data and Maps DVD (in world folder &gt;data folder &gt; latlong.sdc &gt; latlong).\u00a0 Once you add this line feature class to your map you can write a\u00a0<a title=\"ArcGIS Desktop 10 Help:  Displaying a subset of features in a layer\" href=\"http:\/\/help.arcgis.com\/en\/arcgisdesktop\/10.0\/help\/index.html#\/\/00s50000002z000000.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">definition query<\/a>\u00a0to select which lines of latitude and longitude you want to display (10, 15, 20, or 30 degree lines).<\/p>\n<p><em>Formerly a Mapping Center Ask a Cartographer \u00a0Q &amp; A.<\/em><\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":4331,"user_firstname":"Aileen","user_lastname":"Buckley","nickname":"Aileen Buckley","user_nicename":"abuckley","display_name":"Aileen Buckley","user_email":"abuckley@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:15:57","user_description":"Dr. Aileen Buckley is a cartographer researcher and Senior Principal GIS Engineer at Esri. 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