A tabular set of data linked one-to-one to a set of spatial features.

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How to add automate values to attribute field?

I have parcel, Buildings layers, without any information attribute table, and i want to replace "NULL" values with numbers form 1 to 2000, in "Parcel ID", or "Building ID" field thank you.
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How to change a CSV layer attribute value from text to number?

I read in a CSV file for linking to a .shp file. All the variables that are just numbers came in as text. How do I change the text variables to numeric in QGIS?
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How to force ArcGIS to recognize a text field in a CSV file?

Related to Data-type detection in ArcGIS table loading I have a CSV file which contains a mixture of numeric and text fields: ID,Txt,Int,Dbl 12345,abc,45,56.78 12346,9,65,23.12 12347,10,66,23.13 ...
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Can I access a raster attribute table in QGIS?

I have some Python code that makes Raster Attribute Tables for GeoTiffs using GDAL. In ArcGIS I can see these attribute tables fine and they behave how I like (as classifications). But in QGIS the ...
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find polygon corner coordinates

I am trying to get the coordinates of each node of the polygon I create. I would like the attribute table to display the name of the polygon (ex. address) and then the coordinates of the nodes (ex. ...
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Feature Layer Attribute table to Datatable and make it editable

Hi Currently i'm using this to turn it into a data table featureCursor = layer.FeatureClass.Search(que, false); row = featureCursor.NextFeature(); if (row != ...
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How to select features with NULL attributes in QGIS?

I need to identify which features have null attributes in the attribute table of a shapefile. When i try [field]= 'NULL' it selects the features with value=0 (see picture) Suggestions?
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Adding fields to raster attribute table

I have a raster attribute table associated with an IMAGINE .img raster that I build and open with: IGPUtilities utils = new GPUtilities(); IRasterDatasetEdit2 raster = (IRasterDatasetEdit2) ...
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How to determine the centroid of polygons?

I have a polygon vector and I want to quickly attain the centroid of this polygon for insertion in a text document. I am working with QGIS. I searched through other questions and although some are ...
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How to fill my column with consecutive numbers

I m very new to Qgis, so forgive this simple question. Searching in older topics didn t help either.So: I make a new column in my attribute table and it has a default value(for example 0). I want to ...
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Is there an ArcGIS tool equivalent to “Dissolve” that can be used on tables?

I have a data table that I need to trim down, merging records which have the same value in an ID field and performing a couple math operations on various other fields (summing, averaging). The ...
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ArcGIS 10 attribute table sort issue

what is the solution for this funky sorting Esri does in attribute tables with decimal places values... screen shot: http://i.imgur.com/0fqvF.png attribute table funky sort
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Can a new point automatically be populated with data from the containing polygon

I need some help to create a script. Imagine that I'm using 3 shapes: 1 point and 2 polygons. When I create a new point I want it to assume some attributes of the polygons in which that point is ...
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Total of attribute field of point layer per polygon layer

I have a polygon shapefile of many lakes, I also have a point shapefile of locations on those lakes where fish were caught. The point shapefile contains the attributes: Fisherman_iD, Fish_Caught, ...
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Adding a new field in ArcMap from data of an existing field

I want to create a new field with years data. There is an existing field with the timestamp YYYYMMDDHHMM. But I just want the years from that field to the new field. That way I can display just the ...
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Select by Attribute --Top 500 values selection in attribute table - ArcGis

Is there any way we can select top 500 values in attribute table? I tried by sorting area field ascending/descending... but I can't count big numbers to select. In microsoft excell we can do know, ...
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ArcGIS problem accessing fields attribute table

I encounter a strange problem. I have a simple shape file to which I added some fields and then populated them. Now I wanna access those fields from a script to run some buffer operations. I wanna ...