The process of extracting geographic, statistical, geometric, or scientific information from one or more related collections of GIS features and data.
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How to create noise maps? (open source or scripted in ArcGIS)
In a previous role I helped create Noise Maps for Northern England.
The predicted noise levels was done using the IMMI package (which I can recommend) and the cartographic output was done in ArcMap. ...
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Nearest neighbor analysis not showing results
I'm trying to do a nearest neighbour analysis on fish shoals distribution.
I go to Vector > Analysis Tools > Nearest neighbour analysis. I choose the appropriate layer and when I hit ok the black ...
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Point and Line Statistical Analysis
I have just lost the past 8 hours on this, and literally getting nowhere - hoping someone can help before I go mad!
I am trying to determine the correlation between sinkholes and a number of ...
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territory analysis
I want to determine the territories in which customers to a bank has the shortest path. It can be done with desktop software packages or programming if it is needed. Does anybody has idea on how to ...
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Solar analysis; Are there any issues with splitting large DEM
I am trying to run Solar analysis in ArcGIS and it is an enormous DEM of a very mountainous region. I'm obviously going to have to split the DEM, but I was wondering if there are any issues with ...
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Python GDAL: find out spikes and pits in DEM
I'm working with on a DEM (Geotiff) in Python GDAL, and I'd like to find out the spikes or pits in my terrain.
I have no idea how to proceed, does anyone have good algorithm to help me out?
Thanks,
eo
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Hillshade for 30m NED at continental scale
I'm new to terrain analysis. I have a 30m NED DEM (.tif) for the conterminous US. I would like to generate a nice looking hillshade for the US, but it looks bad - as in pixelated and rough (See ...
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How to calculate Raster Area per Polygon?
In ArcMap, I have a raster file that contains 6 classes of landcover and a shapefile that is the census data (OA boundaries and their population).
I want the area of each class in each OA? For ...
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Calculating sinuosity of a path with GME in ArcGIS 10?
Does anyone have any experience with pathmetrics in GME?
I would ideally like to use the old Hawths's tool "line metrics" for calculating sinuosity of a daily path but I have ArcGIS 10. I downloaded ...
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How to computational efficiently check if there are any overlapping polygons in a group of polygons?
I need to do some processing with groups of polygons. If any of the polygons in the group overlaps other polygon the result is unpredictable and don't throw any error. So, I need to detect if there is ...
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ArcMap 10.1 Spatial Join: 'Contains' and 'Within' question
I have two polygon datasets: electoral districts and postal code areas. I'm performing a spatial join to see which postal code areas are completely within a district (the area can touch the borders, ...
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Find and list all polygons that overlap with another polygon
I am working with two polygon layers which overlap but are unrelated (one is congressional district boundaries, the other is MPO area boundaries).
I would like to generate a list of all the ...
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How to find the Closest Facility (euclidean distance)?
I have some facilities and incidents, and I want to find the closest facility for each incident. I've done it via Network Analyst (with a network dataset) but I'm wondering if you can do it with just ...
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Watershed Analysis using DEM [duplicate]
I stumbled upon your question regarding the mosaic feature in qgis, the thing is I'm also using Quantum and this is my first encounter with GIS this semester, so if you can please help me with a ...
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Creating dynamic GIS charts in ArcGIS 10.1
I have generated a table which has road segments which get inundated during different flood events. I want to be able to add a pie chart to the map which shows that during each flood ARI (1y, 2y, 5y, ...
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How to add attribute from analysis to database mySQL?
I need to prepare a GIS for a customer. They insist to use a MySQL-Database (not the best option, I know). They need to digitize some geometries (areas) and add some attributes. The geometries and ...
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How to emulate Google Maps driving directions using pgRouting?
Would like to emulate google maps' driving directions functionality but use pgRouting instead. google's data over the project area & scale is quite a bit off so we want to use our own transport ...
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Extract coordinates of polygon vertices in ArcMap 10?
I've got about a dozen polygons in a feature class loaded in ArcMap 10, all in geographic WGS 1984.
How do I easily obtain the coordinates associated with each vertex of each polygon in that feature ...
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Basic traffic volume map [duplicate]
I'm trying to map the volume of people traveling from various cities to popular mountain towns in British Columbia. I have a .csv containing the starting point, ending point and number of travelers. ...
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GIS used to analyse micro-environment
Can anybody give me some articles or show me some link where GIS is used to analyse and manage micro-environment, such as a college campus or a small locality. I need to do a project on ...
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Temporal Analysis Tool: Seeking
I am looking for an alternative tool (proprietary or FOSS) that matches the functionality of Temporal Analyst for ArcGIS by DHI Software. The best I could get was the QGIS plugin Time Manager ...
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3D tool for a visual analysis
Given a 3D mesh I need to visualize and analyze properties and elements generated from the object such as:
tensors
coplanar/similar elements ( coplanar faces, aligned vertices, etc etc, 3D geometry ...
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Sextane script error (os is not defined)
I want to build an analysis script using Sextante 1.0.9 on QGIS 1.8.0. I find an example script in Youtube. I tried this code but never worked always getting error. People say that Sextante is ...
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Clipping a buffer from network analyst shapefile to a base shapefile
I have exported my polygon shapefile which I got after I ran my Network Analyst into a shapefile. It has 6 buffer zones (delimited by time in increments of 10 minutes). When I check the attribute ...
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Heatmap algorithm to visualise point diversity
Can anyone suggest an algorithm to generate a heatmap for visualising point diversity? An example application would be for mapping areas of high species diversity. For some species, every single plant ...
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How to analyze differences between two shape files and put results into a new shape?
I have two polygon shape files of the same region from two different years (1985 and 1997) and I need to analyse the differences between the two shapes resulting in a third polygon shape file ...
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Is it possible to Clip in ArcExplorer?
Is it possible to clip in Desktop Explorer? Or does anyone know of any Analysis Servers I can connect to to get it?
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Find out tight corners on roads
Problem:
How can I pinpoint tight corners on a road dataset that might cause longer/larger vehicles difficulty in driving around.
Assumptions:
Ignore turns into junctions. Just interested in ...
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Advice on choosing ideal software for consultancy
I am taking the step to start a small business consultancy using digital map technology to assist retail business to better understand their environment and make informed location based decision. My ...
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Can python read the value of a cell in a spreadsheet? [closed]
Can python read the value of a cell in a spreadsheet?
The simplest example would be a script that ran a buffer tool on a given shapefile.
For the distance parameter, instead of just using a number ...
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Spatial Analysis with Factors/Classifications
When doing analysis on spatial data with associated information that is numeric, it is possible to use techniques such as Kriging or Interpolation or Cluster Analysis to find out interesting ...
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Using the ArcGIS Local Routing Tool . . geoprocessing in the runtime
When I create a model in ArcGIS using the Network Analyst Tools, I am able to create Locations and make the Route Layer and Solve. However, I need to be able to add barriers as well as locations, ...
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How to move a Point perpendicular from nearest Line?
I want to move Point perpendicular from nearest line or polygon, and the question is how to do that?
example, I have points (house number) near roadbed, and I don't want them to intersect roadbed ...
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Vector Analysis: Determining area of county land mass without water features
Here are the layers that I have:
State / Province polygon file (With Area Field)
County / Ward polygon (with no area field), but all the polygons are within the state boundaries
Water ways for the ...
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Determining gradient of road segment
I've a shapefile of roads data. It contains information about terrain of road segments, i.e., hilly, flat, undulating, etc. I want to determine gradient of every road segment. I know this might ...
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Summing attributes intersected by under a radius
Apologies - new user.
I am working with QGIS on Mac OS X and with shapefiles downloaded from the US Census Bureau that show population data by state and by county.
How do I:
select certain points ...
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Raster Analysis - Identifying features from Raster
I have an IDW, tension spline and hill-shade rasters that show an archaeological landscape and from these rasters I want to identify new features which are seen in the landscape as depressions. And ...
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Modelbuilder - Feature Dataset Iterator
I had posted this on the ArcGIS forums, but thought I may get some further input here.
Having issues acquiring the appropriate input and erase features during the iteration process.
Please see ...
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How can I estimate kernel density, taking barriers (i.e. a priori zero-probability regions) into account?
How can I estimate kernel density, taking barriers (i.e. a priori zero-probability regions) into account?
At the moment, regions where the population cannot occur are clipped out for display. ...
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Which GIS best for this problem?
This problem is similar to retail presence optimization. I'd like to know which GIS's could help us do the following:
Given a set of point locations,
create a circle of radius n meters around each.
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How do you use GIS to detect percentage of Land Use Change
I am a student in GIS I have a dissertation about land use change. I have questions about using ArcMap 10 for this aim, how can using GIS to detect the percentage of land use change. For example we ...
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Spatial Join on two point featureclasses produces empty output featureclass
I have two point featureclasses that intersect each other. They are in the same projection and dataframe. The issue is, when I perform a Spatial Join the output point featureclass is empty. The file ...
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Performing a Multicriteria Analysis Using Distance Along a Road Network
There is the possibility that I will be working on a project which will look at thousands of properties in a region and measure their accessibility to different services (schools, parks, hospitals, ...
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Analyse spatial data and extract results in tabular form in QGIS
I'm sorry if this question is badly framed, I only started with GIS and QGIS 2 days ago so I don't know any terminology yet - I'll try to explain as best I can.
I have 2 layers in QGIS (1.8, on ...
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Interpretation of MODIS VCF Data, concerning walking distance analysis
I'm still working on my diploma thesis (must be one of the last ones in germany..;)) which deals with distance analysis. I want to model walking distances and cost paths affected by slope, vegetation, ...
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Where can one find GIS shapefiles for all of California's municipal jurisdictions (cities, counties, special districts, JPA, CFDs, etc.)?Edit
Cities and counties are easy but I've been digging a while for the other information and haven't had any luck. Particularly interested in water districts and some of the more major JPAs -- for ...
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How to estimate the average width of a sidewalk? [duplicate]
I have a table with two polygons representing urban block with and without the sidewalk: geomBlock and geomBlockWithSidewalk.
On my city we can approximate the polygons of geomBlockWithSidewalk to a ...
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How to calculate the maximum distance within a polygon in x-direction (east-west direction) in PostGIS?
I am interested in the maximum width of a polygon, e.g. a lake, in the east-west direction. Bounding boxes will help only in simple polygons but not in complex concave polygons.
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Is there an open source tool for both road network analysis and geocoding?
Is there any one open source software package that can perform both road network analysis and geocoding?
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Nearest Neighbor calculation in PostGIS
I'm learning how to use PostGIS and spatial databases for analysis. What I am trying to do is perform a calculation to get the distance for the nearest polygon in a file, using the edge calculation, ...
