ArcGIS refers to a family of GIS software from Esri which includes desktop (ArcReader, ArcMap, ArcCatalog), server applications (ArcGIS Server), mobile devices (ArcPad, ArcGIS Mobile) as well as online services (ArcGIS Online).
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Why shouldn't data be loaded into an enterprise geodatabase logged in with sde user?
I've read somewhere that it is not good practice to load data into an enterprise geodatabase using the sde user.
I was wondering what the reason for this is?
Thanks.
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Batch create filenames in ModelBuilder(ArcMap10)
I am running a model in ModelBuilder. The input are raster files in *.tiff format and the output are *.asc format.
I am using iterate raster and there will be 365 input and output files using ...
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Watermarking photos using their geotag and create a shapefile
I have geotagged photographs and I would like to place a watermark of the photos location on the front for easy reference as well as creating a shapefile from the coordinates. Does anyone know of any ...
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What are the benefits of using ArcGIS with Postgresql over simply ArcSDE?
I understand that in order to benefit from ArcGIS spatial datatypes (ST_GEOMETRY, versioned geodatabases etc.) ArcSDE needs to be installed - and with the 10.1 client it is automatically installed ...
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Is it possible to create map packages for ArcMap version 10 using 10.1?
Is it possible to create a map package in an older version? Currently I am using 10.1 and the client uses 10.0. Can you create a map package for different versions?
I see you can create layer ...
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Where to find .mxd examples for ArcGIS 10
I'm beginner of ArcGIS . I'm trying to learn how to use ArcMap. I would like to find some example MXD files for ArcMap, but couldn't find anything googling. Does anyone have any idea where can i find ...
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How can I reclassify a raster to floating point values?
I have a raster of landuse values that I need to reclassify into pollution concentration values. I have the pollution values in a separate table. They are decimal values (ex. 0.0056), and my landuse ...
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ArcGIS Heads up digitizing - Rooms and doors
I am digitizing the floorplans of various schools in our county. This is for the Fire Department so they want to be able to see where doors are within the building. The doors do not necessarily have ...
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Assign value to raster cells within masked area [duplicate]
The answer I previously received for this question did not solve my problem...please keep in mind that I am a GIS beginner, and it's quite likely that I carried out the proposed solution (using ...
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How to create a Winkel-Tripel map of countries with different colors?
I need a good quality rasterized world map, Winkel-Tripel projection, in which all countries have different (random?) colors. No borders, text, grid or anything else on the map.
Is GIS the right way ...
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Point to point distance over specified distance
I need to calculate the distance between neighbouring points which conform to a staggered line.
I have two point datasets, one being the baseline and another the monitor. The points typically reside ...
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FME: Identify a string within a field and populate another field with that same string
I have a shp which needs to be split according to attributes in a field. The problem is that the field contains other Characters and dates. For Example the Field is called "Landtype" and contains the ...
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QGIS Field Calculation convert to ArcGIS
I have a field calculator expression I use in QGIS to generate unique IDs that are sequential, but start with a text string. I now need to perform the same thing in ArcGIS, but I am unsure of how to ...
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Create Text files from a loop with Python? [closed]
I need to create some files to hyperlink to from Arcmap. I have a folder of jpeg files (100.jpg, 101.jpg etc...). I need to loop through them and create a text file of the same name except replace the ...
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How to combine two rasters, preferring the values of one over the other? [duplicate]
I have two rasters that I need to combine (not using the Combine tool). The values of the 1st raster are preferred to those of the 2nd raster, so I want to keep these values if they exist. Where the ...
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ArcGIS javascript api - layer reordering - how to add new layers?
I am learning ArcGIS javascript API and wanted to make a reordering panel for my webapp. I looked through the ArcGIS sample.
but I'm stuck at addLake() function. If I'm understand the sample ...
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arcpy.setValue for Title casing
I am trying to figure out how to use fieldName.title() method while updating rows using updateCursor for multiple fields. I was trying to improve the code of this post to fit my purpose:
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Select by Attributes (features sharing a common attribute value)
I am attempting to 'select by attributes' a point feature with the lowest numeric value which shares a common value with other point features in another field. For example: I may have 3 point features ...
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First time using ArcGIS JavaScript API - where do I find the JavaScript API to include (.js) into my solution?
I'm writing a web service that will interface with ArcGIS. One of the requirements is to put:
esri.config.defaults.io.proxyUrl = "proxy.ashx";
in the JavaScript portion of the page. Of course, it ...
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ArcGIS - Is It Possible To “Lock” Metadata
I've been asked by a customer if I can "lock" the metadata in their various geodatasets. I immediately asked why, and was told that they don't want other organizations/users editing/deleting certain ...
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arcgis model builder: in-line variable substitution for the path
I am having difficulties in finding a way to use the input path and set is as the output path for a simple Copy Features tool. I use the substitution by the workspace but it outputs the results into ...
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How to create a polylines from latitude, longitude values?
I have consecutive poles coordinates in kml, now I want to join as a Polyline. Please give me the possible ways in Google Earth/any gis software!
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How to symbolize different information that's joined to a single plot in a shapefile
I am a student doing an industrial survey in Windhoek, Namibia. We mapped different businesses and later did spatial analysis. Questionnaires were handed to different businesses and then that ...
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How to mirror two geodatabases on the fly?
I'm new to arcgis and its applications.
We have the full suite of arcgis solutions (arcgis server, desktop, arcgis sde)
We have a requirement...
geodatabase (A & B)
A & B reside on 2 ...
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How do I fill in serial letters (AA, AB,AC…,BA,BB,BC…ZZ) to a shape?
(I am using ArcGIS software, ArcMap...)
MY PROBLEM
I have a shape file containing points. The shape file contains 3 columns named FID, Shape* and Label. In the column I want to fill in AA, AB, ...
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Should I use File Geodatabase (*.gdb), Personal Geodatabase (*.mdb) or shapefiles?
I am a bit confused on the topic of databases. For me, this far, I have used databases as an easy way to keep all files together rather than having dozens of shapefiles all over the place. And it's ...
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Get IWorkSpace from IGxObject
I am creating a tool that opens an IGxDialog which it's objects are filtered to show only workspaces, my question is how can I convert IGxObject to IWorkSpace or get the selected workspace without ...
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Change the Default geodatabase in ArcGIS 10?
In a multi-user environment I have a need to be able to configure ArcGIS so that it uses an SDE connection as the default geodatabase instead of the Default.gdb in each users' profile. What is the ...
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Is ArcGIS available on Ubuntu?
Is ESRI's ArcGIS platform of programs available on Ubuntu? I love open source and if I could I would love to try and migrate to this open source OS.
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Average distance from points to line
I have a polyline road dataset and a study area (polygon) covering the the road dataset. I want to determine the average distance for every given point within the study area to the nearest road. i ...
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How to query for a specific point, within a specific polygon?
I have a shapefile points layer, with each point representing either Marginal, suboptimal, or optimal conditions. I want to find only the marginal points within a specific polygon from my catchments ...
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Refresh open attribute table in ArcMap (arcpy)
I am running the Calculate Field GP tool from the arcpy in ArcMap. When a row value is updated, it does not show up untill I use the Reload Cache tool (Table Options > Reload Cache). How do I refresh ...
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Delete identical by size?
I got a Feature class with some identicial fields! Now i only need one polygon which had the same ID and this is the one with the largest size? Is there a posibility to delete the Polygons which are ...
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How to create network dataset for network assistant using ArcPy?
Is it possible to create a network dataset with arcpy to be used with the network assistant?
In the documentation I found the Build Network and Dissolve Network functions, but it looks like both ...
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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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How to make selection tool with 3 variables which depend on each other (ModelBuilder)?
I try to create model to selection feature by attribute with 3 variables which depend on each other but i don't know how.
for example:
variables: kat_1, kat_2, kat_3
Kat_1{ gastronomy, education, ...
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Symbology count in database form
I am working on a file which contains points from different areas of country. I have symbolized points. I want the feature count of respective area in a database form in .dbf file or excel etc. How ...
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Customizing Identify Dialog in ArcMap
Any idea for customizing Identify Dialog in ArcMap.I want to use my control (for example a list view or a custom control) to show attributes of features in same native ArcMap Identify Dialog,mean ...
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How to get point x and y geometry from a shapefile?
I have a shapefile of US Cities and I want to get the X and Y coordinate of EACH city in that shapefile. I've tried this:
for city in city_cursor:
geom = city.Shape
point = geom.getPart()
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Google Earth Enterprise vs. ArcGIS Server [duplicate]
All - looks like it's been a while (May '11) since the GEE vs. ArcGIS server has been updated. Would anyone have more current feedback on this? Is the price for GEE still hovering around $620K USD? ...
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Watershed delineation taking into account lake/reservoir
My watershed has several big lakes. When I delineated my watershed, I had some unwanted subwatersheds and river segments inside the lakes (see fig. below). I want to tell ArcGIS/ArcHydro to delineate ...
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Can anyone recommend an Arcpy GUI? [duplicate]
Alright I have been having really good luck with you guys so here is my question...
Can anyone recommend a GUI for arcpy? So if I want to run my script as an exe with some blank text boxes(or text ...
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Why is it important to use feature layers in ModelBuilder?
I am trying to understand creation of a geoprocess with ModelBuilder, but I don't know why it's important to use feature layers instead of feature classes when creating a geoprocess with ModelBuilder. ...
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Split a layer into a single layer
I have two multi-polygon layers, one a map of land uses, the other borders of administrative areas.
I am interested in analyzing the amount of land use in each administrative area, but the polygons ...
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How to increase maximum memory usage cap for running Arc 10.1?
Not sure if this is strictly GIS related or perhaps belongs on StackOverflow...it is regarding ESRI ArcGIS 10.1, so I'm sticking it here.
I'm looking for options to increase processing capacity, and ...
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How to write point geometries with arcpy instead of gp syntax?
Can someone help me fix some code that simply writes points into a featureclass? It used to work in the older gp. syntax, but I'm having difficulties rewriting it in arcpy for ArcGIS 10.0. In this ...
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Feature to Raster Conversion Results in Empty Raster [closed]
I have a simple shapefile with one feature in it with a single value (of 1). I am trying to run a Euclidean Distance on that feature, but I get "invalid parameters" errors.
So I tried to convert the ...
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How to delete isolated pixels in ArcGIS 10.1?
I want to know that it is possible or not to edit the raster pixel in ArcGIS.
I want to delete isolated pixel and I want to delete some pixel by manually.
please tell me how can i do it manually or ...
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Why do points shift when reprojected from WGS84 to a state plane coordinate?
We have a Trimble unit we use to collect equipment.
We collect the data in WGS84 and differentially correct it and then reproject it to a state plan coordinate system.
The points always shift the ...
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Duplicate an in use GeoDatabase
I'm wondering if there is anyway to duplicate an in use ESRI File GeoDatabase.
The GeoDatabase I have is being used by ArcServer for a few of our web mapping applications. Now I understand I could ...
