Identifying the CRS of a Feature Layer
Included in this tutorial:
Finding the CRS of a feature layer within the Layer’s Properties
Software version in examples: ArcGIS Pro 2.8.0
Tutorial Data: This tutorial uses the 1:50m Admin 0 - Countries shapefile downloaded from Natural Earth.
Natural Earth. “Admin 0 - Countries.” [shapefile]. 1:50m Cultural Vectors, version 4.1.0. 25 May 2018. Accessed 28 June 2021 from https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-cultural-vectors/
Credits: L. Meisterlin with Erik Strand, Moses Levich, and Thiago Lee (2021)
This quick tutorial walks through the steps of accessing a layer’s properties and navigating to its CRS information.
To check the coordinate information of a layer, right-click on the layer’s name in the Contents Pane and click-through Properties > Source (tab), then scroll to and expand the Spatial Reference dropdown.
checking the CRS of a layer
In this example, the “Admin 0 - Countries” layer uses the WGS 1984 Geographic Coordinate System (unprojected, therefore it lists no linear units).