{"id":2944819,"date":"2025-11-03T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2944819"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:14:36","slug":"adding-polygon-and-polyline-layers-to-arcgis-for-excel-map","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-for-excel\/analytics\/adding-polygon-and-polyline-layers-to-arcgis-for-excel-map","title":{"rendered":"Adding Polygon and Polyline Layers to ArcGIS for Excel Map"},"author":252692,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23341,22841,22771],"tags":[766102,761562,25901,679741,37771],"industry":[],"product":[766382,770122],"class_list":["post-2944819","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-local-government","category-natural-resources","tag-arcgis-for-excel","tag-arcgis-for-microsoft-365","tag-excel","tag-utility","tag-water","product-arcgis-for-excel","product-microsoft-365"],"acf":{"show_article_image":true,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Adding-Polygon-and-Polyline-Layers-in-ArcGIS-for-Excel-5.jpg","wide_image":false,"authors":[{"ID":252692,"user_firstname":"Gaurav","user_lastname":"Singh","nickname":"Gaurav Singh","user_nicename":"gsingh","display_name":"Gaurav Singh","user_email":"gsingh@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2021-07-16 23:07:37","user_description":"Sr. Product Engineer in the ArcGIS for Microsoft365 group.","user_avatar":""},{"ID":97432,"user_firstname":"Neha","user_lastname":"Yadav","nickname":"NYadav","user_nicename":"nyadav","display_name":"Neha Yadav","user_email":"nyadav@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2020-09-16 23:12:25","user_description":"","user_avatar":""}],"short_description":"Add polygon and polyline layers from Excel to ArcGIS map, normalize data for insights, and use spatial filter for better planning.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

A common question at the ArcGIS for Excel booth during the Esri User Conference was how to add polygon and polyline datasets to a map from their Excel data. We’ve written this article to walk users through the process of adding these features to an ArcGIS for Excel map using data from Excel. The steps are the same for both polygons and polylines datasets.<\/p>\n

In ArcGIS for Excel, you can map standard administrative boundaries or levels of your region’s geographies, including states, provinces, zip codes, block groups, census tracts, departements, statistical areas, regions, subregions, emirates, governorates, sectors, prefecture, etc. You can also map your own custom boundaries such as water districts, sales districts, or zoning boundaries. You can render the polygons layer on the ArcGIS for Excel map as long as there is a one-to-one relationship between the rows in your business data (Excel data) and the shapes in the service hosted on ArcGIS. You are specifying a dynamic map service or feature service from ArcGIS to use as a location type and performing a join between the fields from your Excel data and ArcGIS layer, and shapes with matched attributes will get rendered on the map.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Polygons<\/strong><\/p>\n

The dataset below includes demographic data for Riverside County ZIP codes with fields for Total Population, Total Housing Units, and Median Household Income. Our task involves:<\/p>\n