Click the plus icon and scroll down until you find “WGS 1984”. A common geographic coordinate system for XY tables is WGS 84 – to select this system, click the plus icon next to “Geographic Coordinate Systems” and scroll down to the last option, “World”.If you do not select a spatial reference, the shapefile may have an Unknown Coordinate System, or take the incorrect one from the data frame’s properties. If you’re not sure of the coordinate system of the data, check the metadata (commonly found where you downloaded the data from) or contact the administrator of the dataset, if possible. If you know the spatial reference of the input coordinates, click the “Coordinate System of Input Coordinates…” button.In the pop-up window, the X Field should be Longitude and the Y Field should be Latitude.Right click on your file and hover over “Create Feature Class”, then select “From XY Table…”.Open the Catalog Pane* and navigate to your file (can be a.How to create a shapefile from XY coordinates using Excel and ArcMap: Create shapefile How do I create a shapefile from Latitute/Longitude Coordinates?
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