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Shape Metrics Toolbox or equivalent for ArcGis 10

I need to compute the geometric properties (e.g. contiguity index, dispersion index etc.) of a series of polygons and I would like to use the Shape Metrics Toolbox. I am using ArcGis 10 and the ...
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How to divide a polygon with another polygon

I am working in ARCMAP 10. I am trying to divide a polygon with another polygon. I don´t want to clip any part away, but only divide the polygon? The polygons are stored in two different layers. ...
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Merge attribute of points into a polygon : Arcmap 10

I have points layer which the attribute looks like this: FID Shape ID Lat Long 0 Point 2065 -5.51666 106.48333 1 Point 2319 21.93333 120.73366 I also have polygons layer : FID Shape ...
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Problems converting polygon to point

I'm trying to convert polygons to points with ArcGIS 10. My polygon layer has 2 attributes that I want to give to my point layer. I'm using the Feature to Point function from the Arctoolbox, but it ...
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How do i calculate line segment lengths within a polygon?

I have a layer with line segments and a layer of polygons (in this case, buffers around points). I need to create a new field for each polygon that contains the total length of all line segments ...
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Calculate polygon area inside extent

We're using ArcMap 10.0 sp5, creating a tool in c# using the ArcObjects sdk. Is there a built in function or simple set of steps that calculates the area of each feature of a polygon layer within a ...
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Calculate maximum and minimum elevation for a polygon layer from a DEM [duplicate]

I have a polygon layer and would like to know the min and max elevation within each polygon. My elevation layer is a digital elevation model. I'm not quite sure how to extract that information. I am ...
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How to create a heat map or density map from stacked polygons in ArcMap 10

I have a polygon shape file that has many overlapping features. Each feature represents an area used by polar bears. So some of the polygons overlap and some don't, and there are separate clusters of ...
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area weighted average for overlapping polygons [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to use NASS county level crop data to estimate crop acreage in hydrologic regions? It seems like an easy problem but I don't know how to go about it. I have two ...
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Dissolving specific polygons inside SearchCursor with Python in Arcmap

I have a layer with catchment polygons. For those that are smaller than a certain size, I want to merge with an adjoining polygon (namely the one downstream). In the attribute table I have a GridID, ...
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Why is ArcMap 10.0 editor deleting some added vertices and simplifying polygon?

I am using ArcMap 10.0. I am trying to edit (and add) vertices in a polygon. I start editing, (using "Edit Vertices" tool), and add many vertices in the polygon. Then when I am done, I save the ...
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Problem creating polygon features using ArcObjects / ArcGIS 10

I need to create a grid of polygons. Each polygon is rectangle, thus has 4 corners (vertices). When I create polygon features using ArcObjects they seem to have wrong geometry, which results in wrong ...
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joining a table from zonal statistics as table with a layer, problem with reserved names

I have a raster file (percentage of total forest killed) and a shapefile with polygons (municipalities). I thought as a first step I would like to find out which municipality shows the greatest ...
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Polygon to Raster Tool Problem

I am trying to create a raster data set from county level polygon data for the US. I have successfully created one raster from a dataset, but when attempting another, it does not work. I am ...
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How do you edit a stack of polygons simultaneously?

Using ArcMap 10.1. Lets say you have 100 polygons that all are in the exact same shape and in the exact same place. They appear to be one polygon. How would you edit the shape of all 100 at the same ...
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How to join attributes of donut polygon to hole polygon in ArcGIS?

First of all I'm completely new to the realm of GIS and ArcGIS. Basically I need a reliable way to determine a donut hole's containing donut for a few hundred thousand polygons (where the donut holes ...
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Creating Long & Lat for Polygons

I have a base map image with micro regions, however in the attribute table there is no information regarding the long & lat. Is there a way I can create a long & lat for each micro region? ...
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How to clip polygons with a fishnet layer?

I have a layer with multiple polygons (input) and a fishnet layer in polygon (clip layer). I want to clip the multiple polygons with the fishnet to be able to calculate how big portion of the input ...
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How do you convert raster to polygon while avoiding small polygons

I intend to convert a raster to several polygons, but I want to ignore too small polygons, and just keep larger polygon. How can I do that? Thanks in advance!
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How to enclose clustered points with polygon?

I have a raster with forest (1), no forest (2) data. "1" is represent single/few trees and there is gaps between them. I want to create a polygon around these trees to a forest map. It is not a dense ...
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Assign unique ID to each polygon

I feel like this should be really simple and I am missing something. All I wish to do is assign a unique ID to each polygon since I have multiple identical FID values. In MS excel I would simply type ...
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Identify duplicate polygons to enable removal after reviewing attributes

I wish to label overlapping polygons so that I can manually locate each overlap then review the attributes of each overlapping polygon and decide which suite of attributes to maintain before ...
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Export selected raster cells to polygon

I have selected certain values in a raster (roughly 1000 cells), and would like to export them to be able to create a polygon. Converting it to points first then to polygons does not work. Can anyone ...
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Selecting proper polygon

Currently doing a final project for school on ARCMAP 10. I have a set of unsuitable and suitable buffers over a big area which is Quebec City, Canada. The final potential sites give me areas between ...
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How to identify Polygon within another Polygon layer

I have two polygons files. The first one has several smaller polygons within it eg.a shapefile with all US states, the other polygon file has a single polygon eg. a river basin. I am trying to get all ...
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How to meassure the length of common edges between polygons?

I have a shapefile that contains several polygons which in fact represent the limits of several counties. My task is to find each length of each shared border. So in other words I want to know how ...
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Polygons of Land Use Change

I am doing a project where I am digitizing a map of Haiti from the 70s. Through R2V I digitized the lines and then I exported it into ArcGIS 10. I am just interested in the land use change, therefore, ...
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Packing Polygons within polygon

I have a Boolean raster. In the grey areas of the raster I would like to fit a given size polygon within a contiguous extent. Basically, I have an irregular polygon, and i would like to "fit" a ...
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How to identify feature vertices that are part of a donut hole in ArcGIS 10?

I´m exporting the coordinates of polygon vertices to a CSV-File using the "Feature Vertices to Points" and then the "Export feature attributes to ASCII"-tools. Some of these polygons have holes ...
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identify the fraction of raster cells and listing all the cell values in every polygon

In Arcgis 10 I have a netcdf file that maps the fractions of cropland in the world from 1700 to 2007. I extracted the years that i needed as raster layer format (continous data from 0 to 1) and now, ...
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How can I aggregate points to polygons?

I am trying to aggregate my data points to the polygons so that I could find out how many points I actually have in each polygon, and then export the data contained within each polygon to further look ...
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Selecting polygons with a minimum internal straight line value - ArcGIS 10

I have a map of polygons representing forest stands. I am trying to sort through them to find those polygons that have a minimum internal distance of 200 m in a straight line (my field sampling will ...
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Combining adjacent polygons sharing a similar trait into 1 polygon - ArcGIS

I feel like this is a fairly novice question, but unfortunately I can't seem to find the answer (don't think I'm searching using the correct terms). I have a large dataset of habitat classes which I ...
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Get boundary of raster image as polygon in ArcGIS 10

I have a rectangular raster image in ArcGIS. My question is: how can I produce a polygon which is just the extent of the raster image? That is, I want to have a polygon layer with a single ...
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Removing small polygons in ArcGIS 10 using Remove small polygon extension by Gonza2

Halo friends, any body has experiences working with Remove small polygons from a feature class script tool by Gonza2 in ArcGIS 10? The extension works perfectly in previous version of ArcGIS 9.3.1. ...
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Is there an easier way to edit polygons in ArcMap?

I am updating woodlot polygons in ArcMap 10. Instead of editing individual verticies, is there a way to edit that is more like drawing part of a new shape (say if the woodlot has expanded only on one ...
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How can I calculate the average width of a polygon?

I'm interested in examining the average width of a polygon that represents the road surface. I also have the road centerline as a vector (which is sometimes not exactly in the center). In this example ...
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CenterPoint of Polygon in ArcEngine .Net 10

I am currently trying to get the center point of a polygon. In GIS, i can see the "x" mark in the center of the polygon, but I do not know how to get it from the IPolygon object. I tried getting the ...
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ArcGIS - How do I group corner-touching contiguous polygons?

Using ArcGIS 10, I have a Feature Class which I converted from a Raster (GRID) (Raster To Polygon Tool). There are approx. 180,000 polygons. The attribute table contains a [grid_code] field which ...
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Selecting polygons by number of sides

I'm using ArcGIS 10 to build some figures for a journal article. One is a figure of an unstructured finite element mesh of triangles spanning the western Atlantic Ocean. I exported this mesh from ...
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can I extract overlap of polygons within the same layer?

I am trying to extract the overlap of polygons that are within the same layer in 10. The layer came from a buffered street centerline and I'm trying to extract and delete the intersections from the ...
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How to automate point-in-polygon queries in ArcView?

Layer1 = point shapefile (multiple points, geocoded) Layer2 = polygon (1 attribute; (1,2,3...)) I want a non-gis person to be able input a single address and be told the attribute of the polygon ...
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Calculate neighborhood statistics for polygons?

I've been searching around for the answer to this (including here) and have yet to find it. I'm interested in finding out how to calculate a 'neighborhood sum' for vector, polygon data. I am aware ...
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Create overlapping polygons from contour lines

Working in ArcGIS 10, I have a set of contour lines representing density of commercial square footage, and I have a set of points representing local maxima for each peak of the dataset. For each ...
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Why doesn't the split tool return any records in the attribute table?

I've been trying to split a large land use shapefile using a set of study area polygons as the split feature, but when the function finally finishes running (the land use dataset is quite large), all ...
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ArcObjects - Finding the intersection of a polyline and polygon?

I have a polyline and polygon. The polyline will intersect the polygon at two or fewer points. I would like to get these intersection points as X and Y values. EDIT: Here is a quick code sample using ...
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Measure the area of a polygon resulting from the intersection of two other polygons?

How can I measure the area of a polygon resulting from the intersection of two other polygons? If I use the measure tool or open the attribute table for the resulting polygon, it shows me the areas of ...
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Label *beside* polygons in ArcMap 10?

I try to add labels to polygons in ArcMap 10 based on a field in the corresponding attribute table. However, the labels always appear inside the polygon, and I can't find an option that lets me put ...
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How to find the minimum edge to edge distance of polygons?

I have a a map of about 3000 polygons in ArcGIS 10. I'm looking to find the distance between each one of them. I know how to do it using the lat and long coordinates of the centroid, but I'm looking ...
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How to split a polygon into multiple equal-width polygons in ArcMap 10?

I am adding parking spaces into a parking lot, and I need them to be exactly the same shape and not overlap each other or have spaces between. In ArcMap 9.3, there was an editing task that allowed you ...

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