[GIS] How to extract Latitude and Longitude of Shapefile for importing into Tableau

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I'm having a hell of a time so any help would be appreciated.

I want to extract the latitude and longitude of the Health Authority boundaries from the zip file below. The ultimate goal is to import these coordinates into Tableau.

http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca/Files/1d01fdf3-dc2a-4715-ba81-0aef150a49b8/Boundaries-HealthAuthorities.zip

Best Answer

Tableau has a knowledge base topic on this: Creating Tableau Polygons from ArcGIS Shapefiles.

The topic says to use ET GeoWizards tool to help prepare the shapefile, and that only free functionality from ET GeoWizards is needed. The Polygon-to-Point wizard is used, so you may be able to use the Geoprocessing tool, Feature to Point, if you have an ArcInfo license.

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