I have a large number of shapefiles (>500) representing species' ranges for North America. I am wondering how I could open them all automatically, without having to open them one at a time in ArcGIS? The shapefiles are nested in a folder for each species, and then in a folder for groups of species by family.
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2this answer gis.stackexchange.com/questions/4882/… followed by this answer gis.stackexchange.com/questions/130950/… should get you started in the right direction.– mr.adamApr 10, 2015 at 15:36
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Are you interested in adding the files to the current dataframe or access the files programmatically for some operation like "merge"?– Aaron ♦Apr 10, 2015 at 17:00
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yes, I would like to be able to merge the files– macdonawApr 13, 2015 at 18:52
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also, I am not familiar with Python. Is there some way to do this in ArcGIS using one of the tools?– macdonawApr 13, 2015 at 19:06
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If all of the data is the same type like polygon, you can try to use arctoolbox to merge them.
ArcToolbox -> Data Management toolbox -> General toolset -> Merge
There are two method to do merge all of your data including python and arctoolbox.
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Merge/001700000055000000/
