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Photogrammetry problem: Spatial-i-fy photos with no spatial reference

I have about 100-200 field photos I would like to overlay in ArcGIS 10 that have no spatial information which I need to somehow develop using a photogrammetric formula. The camera was attached 2 ...
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How to display previous and current year with dynamic text?

Is there a way to display previous and current year with dynamic text? If so, what is the formatting? I'm using ArcMap 10.0
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Network Analyst does not take oneway street from attribute table

I want to build a network dataset to calculate travelling times for buses (service area). I have on shapefile with the streets from my home town, which has a column intitled 'ONEWAY', with values of ...
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Geographic Transformation

I have an Image with the following metadata: Projection Information : Projection Zone : 0 Spheroid Name : Modified Everest Georeferenced to : RSO Map Information : Upper Left ...
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Calculate area of group points [closed]

I have polygon and I add another layer which contain points on this polygon and want to Calculate the area of the point and subtract it from the area of polygon. I'm using esri ArcGIS 9.3.
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Is there any way to create elevation mesh plot in arcmap 10.1

I am using arcmap 10.1. I have data with elevation value.Now i want to create mesh plot (as created in golden software surfer). How to do this Thanks in advance
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Erase features from feature classes based on record ID?

Please help resolve the following challenge: I have two feature classes, which have the same number of polygon features, that when overlaid form concentric "rings." I need to erase the inner circle ...
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Are there Open Source alternatives to ArcGIS Aggregate and Extract Value to Points?

I am looking for some kind of Open source GIS library which can perform spatial analytic functions same as ArcGIS. My use case is : I am processing GeoTIFF file provided by USGS and performing ...
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how to remove underscore from filename in directory using modelbuilder

Does anyone have a script I can use in modelbuilder that will?: parse an "_" from a filename usable in modelbuilder with an inline variable (%name%) and Feature class iterator transfer or copy the ...
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How to make a new raster out of two other rasters [duplicate]

I have two raster images, one is the Corine Land Cover for the year 2000 and another one which is the anthropogenic effect on land. The first image reclassified in 9 categories: Artificial surfaces ...
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Choosing Metadata standard

I need help choosing the appropriate Metadata standard for a GDB for a local government. what are your recommendations and why ? what are the main differences between ISO 19139, ISO 19115 and FGDC. ...
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ArcGIS Spatial Analyst “Sample” returns Null values

Using "sample" to join raster values onto point data, some of my points get assigned a Null raster value. The raster does not contain Null values and definitely looks like it has a value at the ...
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Display a raster stack with several bands in ArcGIS?

I have already made a rasterstack (5 bands in one TIFF) of my multitemporal Landsat images in R and have also clipped a smaller region of every rasterstack for each image. Now I want to do some ...
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Spliting layers from multispectral images

I have an image with 4 bands and I wanted to De-layer stack to have each bands separately. How and with which software I can do that? Thanks
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Vector Machine Classification in ArcGIS

Is it possible to perform a vector machine classification of raster image using the ArcGIS software package. This supervised classification method is available in the ENVI software but not for ArcGIS. ...
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Help dealing with a GeoTiff-file in ArcGIS

I'm doing data-analysis on satellite data and my source data is in GeoTiff-file format. What I would like to do with the data is: 1) Open the raster data in ArcMap etc. 2) Change the coordinate ...
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Is it possible to create a map package of a network dataset (ESRI ArcGIS 10.1)?

Is it possible to create a map package of a network dataset (ESRI ArcGIS 10.1)? I tried publishing it as a map package, but I can't seem to insert the network itself (the "New Route" part, not the ...
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Can QGIS projects be opened in Arcgis?

Hey I am about to start a project with a number of people for a nonprofit organization. I am wanting to create the files in QGIS, but some of the people that I am working with are city officials and ...
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How to gain the facility of snapping when multiple points are selected

I have created a fishnet label(square 961 points) centering a point in other layer in arc map but the fishnet is deviated from the intended center. Now i want to place the midpoint of labels on the ...
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Feature Extraction from LiDAR in Erdas 2012 or ArcGIS10.1

I know it's possible but I just can't find or figure out a workflow for it. Erdas Webinars has the workflow for ver 2011 but this is very different in 2013 as it uses a raster img file instead. I ...
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Raster Data set Size on Disc (ArcGIS)

I have just converted a vector dataset of census tracts into a raster data set for an assignment. I can see the uncompressed size of the dataset in layer properties dialog box. But the assignment ...
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Bearing Distance to Line tool from dBASE table only draws one line in ArcGIS 10

I am using the Bearing Distance To Line tool to draw geodesic lines to points defined by a bearing and distance. This is an aside, but I will then use the Feature Vertices To Points tool to convert ...
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How to remove white gap in ArcMap Legend

I have a legend created in ArcMap 10.1 which appears to be generating an abnormal white gap to the right of the legend content. Any tips on how to possibly remove this would be appreciated.
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Shortest raster path

I am trying to create a path from the blue square to all the green dots. The total path distance shall be as short as possible and the path shall be the least cost-path (based on Slope Raster). The ...
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Mosaic tool not licensed?

I am very new to arcgis in general, and am having trouble stiching several rasters together. I know that the mosaic tool can do this, but when I try to create a new mosaic dataset I get the error ...
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How to view/edit M-values of PointZ shapes ArcMap 9.3.1

I realize this is a very basic question, but however I can't find any basic Q&A on something so simple. I added three new points to a shapebatch in ArcMap. By default when I added them, it made ...
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How to create shapefile from OS MasterMap data using ArcGIS Desktop 10?

How do I create a shapefile from OS MasterMap data in Arcgis 10? I have tiles from the Ordnance Survey Site and would like to create a topomap from the existing tiles. These tiles contains the ...
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Why does inline variable output overwrite occurs with Reorder fields tool?

I am trying to use this Reorder fields modelbuilder tool but for some reason the inline variable (%name%) for the output gets overwritten with each file pass until the last one. Otherwise it works ...
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Does the Load Data function in ArcCatalog automatically re-project the data?

If I have a feature class within a dataset in one coordinate system and using the Load Data function, load that data into a feature class of a different dataset that's in a different coordinate system ...
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Varying distance cross section along the river

I have used the script to draw the profile with this gis.stackexchange.com/a/50841/8104. This script is perfect. Can someone provide me idea, if in my case spacing is not same. I have points with ...
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How to convert shapefile to tpk using python(ArcGIS 10.1)?

I'd like to convert shapefile to tpk using Arcpy.I surf in ArcGIS 10.1 help but i couldn't find any desire reference to help me . How can i convert shapefile to tpk using arcpy ? which function i need ...
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Using the projection of a layer variable to project another in Model Builder in ArcGIS

So in model builder I would like to have one input feature class projected to match the projection of another layer (a raster layer) that is a variable in the model. Can anyone help me achieve this?
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How to create an array of points in ArcMap? [duplicate]

I have a master point in following projection system: WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_45N WKID: 32645 Authority: EPSG Projection: Transverse_Mercator False_Easting: 500000.0 False_Northing: 0.0 Central_Meridian: ...
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GDB maintenance of muliple editors without ArcSDE

I'm working with ArcGIS 10.1 SP1. I have finished 18 months of collecting data and digitization and built an impressive GDB with a lot of tables, relationship classes and 100 feature classes. Now i ...
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scratch files left behind by arcpy.sa.Con

I have a Con() statement that creates two "extra" scratch files during it's processing, but that do not get cleaned up once the operation is over and the output is saved. r=arcpy.sa.Con(elv, ...
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Combining scatter plots and line graphs?

When creating a graph in ArcGIS, is it possible to display a profile graph and a scatter plot on the same graph? I know that Add --> New Series on the Create Graph Wizard is probably the way to do ...
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Problem in VersionEdit4.Reconcile4 method

I had an standalone application in which i am getting all the available versions in the database. Based on user filter he selects multiple versions and reconcile it. if ...
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Append or merge consecutive line segments (contours) as one single line of the same elevation value

Is there a way using python (ArcPy) or ArcGIS 10.1 tools to collect consecutive line segments having the same elevation value and appending/merging/generating one single line from them? Each resulting ...
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Why isn't my select by attributes query working?

I'm running ArcMap 10.1. I have a point feature class joined to a table and am trying to query a field. If I do [field] = 'TEST', it selects all the fields. But if I do [field] LIKE 'TES%', it ...
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Importing a .csv to ArcMap

I'm trying to import a .csv file to ArcMap which has more than one feature related to a single x, y coordinate. It doesn't seem to like it - can anyone help with the formatting? e.g. ID name x ...
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How to UPDATE field based on spatial or regular join (without creating new layer)?

How can I UPDATE a field based on a spatial or regular join (without creating a new layer) in ArcGIS? I know I can do joins by (what I call) the litter-with-new-layers approach (Joins and Relates > ...
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Easy Extraction of features from a Feature dataset ( Not feature class)

My Feature dataset (residing inside a GDB) contains more than 30 feature classes and every month I like to extract features from this GDB based on one attribute, which is repeating in all the feature ...
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Why would ArcPad checkin just half of the collected data?

I have encountered a weird problem, sometimes when I check in data with ArcPad i get just some parts of the collected data, it seems like it didn't complete the check in, i check in axf file through ...
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Why does XYToLine_management give ExecuteError ERROR 999999 The table was not found?

I've written this script to import a csv file using ArcGIS' flavor of python.. ArcPy.. It seems to run fine up until the XYtoLine tool runs and then it fails.. This is the error message... Traceback ...
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Values in attribute table not showing up

I have values in an attribute table I want to label my layer with. But when I label it, a totally different set of values show up. In the attribute table, my values are between 0 and 200. But the ...
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3d borehole view for ArcScene

I am trying to make a 3D Representation on the well from the following data. I cnat put it in a table work from there and use python. Just not sure the math. Anyone Help I do have the starting ...
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Labels for Very Small Features Not Displaying

I'm labeling features in a map book (MapLogic) in ArcMap using Maplex labeling. I have the "Never Remove..." box checked within Maplex for the layers, however, some of my features that have a very ...
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ArcToolBox input layer and SDE default database connection [duplicate]

I asked this question before, and got no answer, so I am asking again. I have this scenario happening. Inside ArcGIS desktop (arcmap), the user select ArcToolbox and select any tool When the user ...
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ArcGIS 10 Model Builder: how to select features in layer using their statistics (stdev and mean) of the dataset

I am trying to solve following problem. I need to select features from the shapefile by attribute in Model builder. The attribute should be a statistics which you can calculate by the tool :"Summary ...
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How to find upstream and downstream villages along a river

I have a DEM extract of river and village centroid. How do i create an attribute table that shows which village is upstream of other or downstream to another. Can someone guide me the correct tools in ...

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