Applies to version 10.1 of ArcGIS
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Calculating Runoff / Streams using DEM in ArcGIS
I am just curious about the workflow that many of you use for runoff/stream analysis using a DEM and create a "water network" from the results in ArcGIS 10.1? I know the average rainfall for different ...
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Need help in Print task in ArcGIS JSAPI 3.2/3.3
I am using print task in my code and using dynamic map service layer and graphics layer (not using feature service layer) and I am able to print the map but it’s not displaying info window and ...
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it is possible to undo and redo outside an edit session in Arcobjects?
I would like to know if it is possible to undo and redo changes outside of edit session, i'm working on an ArcSDE versioned 10.1 database?
if yes how i could do it in Arcobjects .NET .
Any help ...
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Populating fields in a Matrix format
I am trying to develop an accuracy assessment tool using ArcObjects. As an output I would like to show a matrix with the fields such as road ,land,water etc. I just want to know how can I fetch ...
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Convert polygons to a number of randomly located points based on polygon size
ArcMap 10.1 on a PC. Working with a large shapefile with ~50,000 poygons with a wide range of size from 1,000+m. to <1m. I would like to convert these polygons into points so I can do some analysis ...
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Which Geographic Transformation to use for WGS_84 to D_Sphere?
I have a shapefile for world countries and I want to reproject it from GCS_WGS_1984 to Sphere_Eckert IV. However, it asks for Geographic Transformation; it says this is optional but it is required in ...
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Calculating the distance from each point in one layer to the nearest point in another layer
I am trying to find the average distance from several points in a layer to points in another layer. I am using ArcMap Basic - I know there is a way to do this using the Advanced version of ArcMap but ...
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ArcGIS script tool: Can you have an input parameter set to optional and have the tool work when an input is not provided?
I'm building a script tool that processes shapefiles ( GPS data collected on weekly basis). The tool is set up to take an input for each shapefile ( in this case Sewer, Storm, Sign). On some days, ...
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Spatial Join problems in ArcGIS 10.1 - intersect polygon and lines
I have hurricane tracks (Lines) and Florida county boundary (polygon) and I want to extract only those hurricane tracks that intersect Florida.
In ArcMap 10.0 I used Spatial Join (from ...
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Arcpy does not execute “CopyFeatures_Management” to write a featureclass to an ArcSDE database
I have some problems with my Python script. The script gets an JSON with different information about images. The information includes general information about images and also the gps position of ...
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Model builder - Nesting models to extract raster values to points
Hello!
Hopefully a quick question. I have a simple model below that iterates through a folder full of rasters, taking each in turn to extract data values based on a single shapefile of Random point ...
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Are FME2013 and 64bit Background Geoprocessing of ArcGIS 10.1 SP1 compatible?
We are running ArcGIS 10.1 sp1 and have installed 64-bit background geoprocessing. We are also upgrading to FME 2013. I know in the past we have had to install the 32-bit version of FME due to ...
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How to Get the Three Nearest Points to an Object (different layer)?
I have two point shapefiles and I want for each point in the 1st shapefile to get the 3 closest (based on air distance) points from the 2nd shapefile.
If possible, it would be great to have each of ...
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Using Custom Functions in a Python Toolbox
I am trying to put together a python toolbox (Arc 10.1) and would like to use a defined function in my code. The function is:
'sys' is imported at the top of the file
def listdirs(folder):
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How to draw rectangle to clip layers using python addin in ArcGIS 10.1?
I want to clip rasters in data view using interactive rectangle (to define Area of Interest) and add them to current dataframe. Following is a piece of code which is not returning anything. Any ...
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Extracting polygons along a border
I have a shapefile of United States counties. Suppose I am interested in all counties in Georgia that border North Carolina and all counties in North Carolina that border Georgia. And, in ...
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How do I stop GP script from adding temporary data to Table of Contents?
I have a script that does a series of calculations, producing temporary data along the way. However, at each step of the script, data is added to the TOC and then removed when I call the ...
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Arcobjects .Net, suppress geoprocessing messages
I am executing the copy features tool via the geoprocessor inside my .net custom geoprocessing function tool. When the copy features tool executes it is writing it's messages to my tool's results. I ...
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Performing a field calculation affects selectable layers in ArcGIS 10.1
In ArcMap 10.1 I have a table open for a layer that I have set as not selectable. Yet when I use the Field Calculator for a record(s) in that table, it automatically makes the associated layer a ...
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Access attributes of a deleted IFeature in ArcObjects 10.1
I am migrating code for an ArcGIS extension from 9.3 to 10.1.
The code is throwing an exception in one place.
My duty is just to migrate it to 10.1, so I really don't like to do any modification more ...
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Python coding question, looping through feature classes, AddField, CalculateField, then errors (might be schema lock)
This is not a SDE question. File GDB.
Hi, I have a general question on looping through feature classes in a file geodatabase. I have (attached) a python script that adds a ton of fields and ...
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ArcGIS 10.1 ERROR 000824: The tool is not licensed in arcpy
I try to run the Zonal Statistic as a Table through arcpy and it gives me:
ERROR 000824: The tool is not licensed.
Here is the doc for the function: ...
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ESRI Javascript v API 3.3: Format Info Window Content
I'm attempting to query a parcel layer and display the information in a popup infoWindow when I click on a parcel, and I'm having some issues dealing with different datatypes.
var content = ...
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Preventing ArcMap from Clipping Neatline when Exporting Map
I cannot seem to keep ArcMap from clipping off a fraction of an inch on the edges of the maps I am exporting:
I would like the 1.5 point border that is set for the legend to be uniform around the ...
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ArcGIS key numbering labels for every feature in one layer
I would like to use key numbering when labeling specific layer. But the tricky thing is I want to label every feature in this way.
By default, key numbering is last option in Strategy order (source). ...
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Intersect, Union are failing on 10.1
After a huge help from Blah238.
I found exactly what is the problem.
I wasted few days checking our data, and trying many things.
The problem that I cannot do intersection between two polylines to ...
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Create hachures from DEM in ArcGIS 10.1
I have created contour lines from DEM and now I need to create hachures/bergstrich for them. I believe that spatial analyst should solve this, but I'm not used to it and I didint found any similar ...
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ArcGIS 10.1 Network Analyst: Snapping stops from point-shapefile to route analysis layer doesn't work properly
I'm struggling with a task, which should be not that difficult....but anyway I do not find a solution.
Background
I'm map-matching tracks, generated by a GPS-device, to a road network. Therefore I ...
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Splitting polygons leaves null values
I'm trying to split polygons with overlaping line features, using Split Polygons tool from Topology toolbar. The problem I encounter is that only one from new polygons have old attributes and others ...
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Can't Select and Export from Python Script
I am a novice in python programming but I am trying to learn by doing.
I got stuck with this function a while back and can't seem to find a solution or a workaround.
I am writing a script that is ...
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ArcGIS Server 10.1 and Postgres Geoprocessing Service issue
I'm hitting an error when publishing a model from ArcGIS Desktop 10.1 to ArcGIS Server 10.1. The model I want to publish uses a layer from a Postgres DB defined via a Query Layer in my MXD. The ...
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How to store data from ArcGIS layer in SQL Server?
I'm new to ArcGIS and I want to know if I can store data from a layer to a SQL Server table and if we can do this, then how? I have already made a connection between ArcGIS and SQL Server.
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Does anyone use both ArcGIS and Python(x,y)?
I'm trying to get ArcGIS 10.1 and Python(x,y) to peacefully co-exist with a unified installation of Python. Surely someone else is using both these tools... right? Pointers would be much appreciated.
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How to use a feature set as an output parameter in a Python Toolbox?
I'm having trouble setting a "Feature Set" output parameter from a .pyt ..
I'm using ArcGIS 10.1 SP1.
Here’s a short script that can be invoked either from a classic toolbox (thru the main() ...
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ArcGIS Vehicle Routing Problem Service via REST
I am trying to get a Vehicle Routing Problem to work as a geoprocessing service on one of our servers.
I used the default_date with unix time stamp in miliseconds and set the times of orders and ...
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drawing line from points
I have a series of XY coordinates. I want to use these points to draw a line in ARCMAP using arcobject10.1 using c#. I have saved this in a table inside geodatabase.Am i supposed to create a feature ...
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Weighted Average of several raster “zones”
thanks for the visit!
Suppose I have two rasters, A and B. I want to determine the value of a certain "zone" in raster A by taking the weighted average of several other zones from raster B, that ...
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Report Designer (ArcGIS 10.1) - Using Element Properties
I've finally got a table generated that will work for a street index and I'm attempting to use the ‘Create Report’ tool with ArcGIS 10.1 to generate what I need for a map. Essentially, I have it setup ...
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AGS 10.1 geoprocessing service returning the wrong URL
I have an image export geoprocessing service that runs on ArcGIS server 10.1. It works by writing an image out to the scratch folder, and returning the location of that image.
Basically just this:
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Can custom map tiles be properly rendered via ArcObjects within my ArcGIS 10.1 Desktop AddIn?
Within ArcObjects for ArcGIS 10.1, we are attempting to render pre-generated map tiles as a
basemap (group) layer. The tiles themselves are of the typical web mercator aux. spherical tiling scheme. ...
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Python Script Crashing Inconsistently on Arcpy Batch LayerToKML script
I put together a script to take a TIGER shapefile of all census tracts in a state, select the census tracts by each county, and export them into individual county-level kml files.
The problem is that ...
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Custom Feature Renderer in ArcGIS Server 10.1?
I've written a custom feature renderer. It works great in ArcMap (10.1). Now we want to deploy it to ArcGIS Server (10.1) so we can use it in map services. But it doesn't seem to work. Has anyone ...
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ArcObjects running in Addin slower?
I have created a class library which does some geoprocessing. The addin calls a class that is an async process. I have ensured the thread is STA and the arcobjects are thread safe (ie. not passed from ...
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Why do I lose data after converting from .xlsx to .shp?
I have a fairly large excel file that I need to convert to a shapefile, but everytime I export the data, I lose a bunch of it. The excel file has about 277,000 records, but the shapefile will only ...
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Refresh combo box in add-in
I've got an add-in with a combo box and want to refresh the list in the combo box after an event in one of the other tools in the same add-in toolbar.
Can I call the combo box somehow to refresh it ...
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Reset python add-in
I have a toolbar which enables a second and third combobox when a selection is made on the previous. I would like to add a button to 'reset' the toolbar. Basically reload the toolbar to it's original ...
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shortest distance between a raster and another raster
i am using arcgis 10.1
i want to calculate the shortest distance between a raster and another raster. i have a bathymetric raster and an underlying fault plane raster. for each bathy raster cell, i ...
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Error opening feature class from SDE (which can be opened in another application)
We're using ArcGis 10.1 with ArcSDE 9.3.1 on Oracle 10g.
I've got 2 layers that cannot be opened or modified with ArcCatalog or ArcMap (but they show up in the list. Everything worked just fine ...
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Accessing data stored in related tables from a network dataset
According to ESRI's transit data model, this implementation, and several thesis papers, any non-spatial information (such as public transport schedules, employee info, trips etc) which is not stored ...
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Poor rendering performance in ArcGIS Server tiled map service and crashes logged
I have a number of map services in ArcGIS Server (10.1, running on 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2) and only one of them is cached.
Caching is configured on-demand as there's no way I can store the ...
