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A region enclosing a point, line, or polygon at a specified distance.

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buffer operation of polygon in ArcGIS 10.1

I need 5 km buffer of a basin boundary of Brazil using ArcGIS 10.1. The basin boundary is in GCS. I have tried it giving buffer distance 5km and 0.0454545 degree decimal (assuming 1degree=110km). I ...
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How to create fixed length (and width) buffer around a polyline in ArcMap 10?

Could someone please help me? I would need to create 100 buffers (500m x 1km) along a stream polylines. I know how to do it by using shortest distance but the buffers should follow the curves of the ...
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ArcMap 10.1 - Tabulate Area tool “doubling up” for Overlapping Buffer Zones

This question is related to a previous question I asked: Raster Version of Spatial Join (one to many) I used the Tabulate Area tool to crosstabulate values between an overlapping "buffrast" raster ...
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Geoserver not buffering external graphic in PointSymbolizer

We've got some Point data we're displaying in a WMS layer using geoserver 2.2 (same problem on 2.3.1). We style it with the following SLD <Rule> <PointSymbolizer> <Graphic> ...
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How to calculate land cover inside the buffer zones?

In one Shape file I have created 1200 buffer zones Around coordinates. I created a field and calculated the buffer zones area in hectares. Then I clipped different landcover layers to the buffer ...
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Extraction of raster cell values based on 'rgeos' and 'raster' buffering approaches in R

I am trying to extract cell values from a raster that lie within a certain distance from a given location (i.e. buffering). Evaluating different approaches, I found out that applying gBuffer(..., ...
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How do I convert MultiLines to MultiPolygons using Postgis

In postgis I'm using the following query to buffer lines to polygons: UPDATE rivers SET poly = ST_Multi(ST_Buffer(lines, 0.01)) where id = 1; The column 'lines' is a MultiLine and the column ...
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How to fix buffer selection issue in ESRI ArcGIS Javascript API and LGIM applications

I had strange LGIM application behavior where the map spatial search did not highlighted the parcels within the Geometry Buffer. What could be the possible reasons? LGIM stands for the Local ...
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Need to make a buffer around a part of a feature, keeping other features attached

Basic problem: I have two layers, a layer containing river basin outlines and a layer of wetland outlines and types. I need to make a buffer around one river basin, and then create 100 random points ...
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How to Hide InfoWindow/Popup when “no information available” or when buffering?

I have an app that does some buffering, only problem is when I click on the map to put in the point/line/polygon vertices to do the buffer, I get popups at every mouseclick. It doesn't interrupt the ...
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Clipping Buffers

I have buffered a line shapefile where many lines are intersecting but not broken at intersections. I am trying to select each record in the buffer file and clip all intersecting polygons in the same ...
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Buffer of different radius - Intersect with raster

I have a polygon shape with buffers. However, the buffers are of different size from 4m radius to 15m. In total I have 7 different buffers. I have a landcover raster and I would like to extract ...
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problem of buffering a point on large areas with a projected coordinate system

could someone clear this up for me please. i remember reading an article not long ago on the web about the problems associated with buffering points on a globe due to the fact that a globe uses angles ...
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Offset a Polygon defined in Lat Lng points by a given distance of miles or km

I am trying apply a positive offset/buffer (enlarge a shape equally from the borders) to a polygon that is made up of a series of latitude/longitude coordinates by a distance that is defined in either ...
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Clipping a buffer from network analyst shapefile to a base shapefile

I have exported my polygon shapefile which I got after I ran my Network Analyst into a shapefile. It has 6 buffer zones (delimited by time in increments of 10 minutes). When I check the attribute ...
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Keeping attribute values in overlapping buffers

I am creating a buffer around salt marsh polygons of 275 meters. Naturally some of these buffers overlap. Prior to the buffering, each salt marsh had been given a score. I would like a) that that ...
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Create buffer around point in LeafletJS?

I am using LeafletJS. I want to create buffer around point. after Selecting a point buffer radius will be specifed by user in feet. After searching of awhile I found this link of JSTS. does JSTS ...
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How to create a buffer zone for notification

I am new to PostGIS. I am working on a project, for this i need to find out abutter notification that generates a list of properties within the buffer zone from the selected property with user input ...
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Distance from waterways

I have an sdc file with water bodies, i.e. oceans-rivers-lakes. I want to combine it with a shapefile with the boundaries of countries all over the world and produce two measures: 1) The average ...
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How to join number of point features into attribute of nearest line segment

I have point shapefile with lot of attributes, that represent road accidents and line shapefile with highways. What i want is to join attribute into line shapefile with value, that represent number of ...
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3D elements buffer extrusion

I'm using ArcScene10.1 and I have a dataset containing of 3D points (x,y,z coordinates) with extrusion values (Evalue). Now I would like to create a square or ring buffer around the points and extrude ...
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Clipping points using buffer in Arcmap takes FOREVER

I'm clipping points (crimes) by using a buffer around a shapefile of city parks. There are quite a few records involved (2 million+), but it is still taking forever - as of now, the clip has been ...
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Multiple ring buffer on point-shape error

I need to calculate multiple ring-buffers, but every time I try, arcgis produces a failure: Executing (Multiple Ring Buffer): MultipleRingBuffer Y:\GIS\RDY\clip\sn_clip.shp ...
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PostGIS algorithm to unite points of two geometries that are within specified radius

I want to find an PostGIS algorithm to unite points of two geometries that are "near" to each other. That is: I want a function, that takes as input two geometries, and returns 1 geometry, that ...
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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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What's the Workflow for buffering in meters/km using WGS84 layers?

I'm a little bit new to GIS, so bear with me a minute.... I'm using QGIS 1.7.4-Wroclaw and working with an SHP layer in WGS84. I want to buffer out to a certain number of kilometers from this layer ...
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Create buffer-lines in QGIS alongside Vector lines

I am currently doing a map of a farm, to see which roads needs to be repaired. Those roads are either one sided fenced, on both sides fenced or not fenced at all. I want to make buffer lines around ...
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trying to make a point to polygon attribute join with a many to many match

I am trying to match US charter schools to noncharter schools in QGIS. I have constructed a buffer of 10 miles around each charter schools and then tried a join attributes by location match with non ...
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QGIS define hexagon area around mapped points

I am using QGIS to map a number of radio antennas (for mobile network). Once I have the layer of the sites (done), I would like to assign to each site a coverage area (envelope). I could achieve that ...
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Getting buffer wizard-like speed in Python (vs using MultipleRingBuffer_analysis)

I've got a script that takes a single input polygon feature, throws 10 buffers around it at tenths of a specified input distance, and then symbolises the output based on an existing layer file. ...
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Creating rectangle over a buffer circle with specified angles/rotation?

I have a layer that is a circle buffer around a point. What I want to do is create a rectangle around the circle, but have every rectangle be perfectly lined up N/S (0degrees of angle/rotation). I ...
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How to invert a Buffer(get the inside of a ring buffer)?

I have a line layer of a road network around which I create a buffer zone of 1000 m with Analysis Tools>Proximity>Buffer. But I am interested in the areas outside the buffer zone, and not the buffer ...
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How to buffer a vector shapefile using ogr python?

I am trying to learn how to use ogr in python using the country and populated places datasets from http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-cultural-vectors/. I am attempting to use filters and ...
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How to buffer in pyQGIS?

I'm looking for some examples to do simple python scripts in QGIS. How would I do a buffer analysis on a dataset? I can't seem to find much in the manual and QGIS python that quite matches the Esri ...
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Dissolving polygons by attribute and in a certain distance (ArcGIS)

in a FeatureClass I have a lot of polygons which contain attributes of different landuse-types. Now I am trying to dissolve those polygons of the same landuse-type, but only if the distance between ...
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FME remove polygon holes of under size ### sqft and chop the ends off

Quetion #1 I have a wokspace that takes the latest version of my data and creates buffers and then merges those to one polygon. When 2 buffer polygons are near each other and close to create a hole. I ...
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How can I create a pollutant dispersion raster in QGIS?

As my previous questions have indicated, I am working on an air quality problem where I have a dataset of industrial emissions that consists of a location (long, lat), and an annual volume of ...
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How do I find location of minimum value within a buffer (around a point)

I have a digital elevation model (DEM) with a point location defined. I want to locate the lowest height values at a set distance from this point. I envisaged creating a buffer around the point ...
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Is it possible, in QGIS, to create buffers with a set radius, but with individual values taken from the attribute table?

I am looking to create an output that consists of an 11KM buffer around a number of discrete points, where the buffer has a value defined by a column in the data sets attribute table. Is this ...
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QGIS regular points around each polygon in a layer (vs ALL polygons)

I have a number of buffered points (some where polygons intersect & are dissolved. I'd like to create regular spaced points grid around EACH polygon -- not ALL polygons. When I do Vector -> ...
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create buffer around locator-derived point

I am trying to create a buffer around a point derived from a locator search, using this example: http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/javascript/arcgis/help/jssamples_start.htm ..but I am getting no ...
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Using newly created features in the next part of a python script

Good Afternoon I am trying to write a python script which buffers a large number of features from a geodatabase (but not all) and then dissolves the newly created buffer shapefiles together. ...
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How to fit a polygon to a “best buffer” about a reference geometry in it?

If I have a polygonal geometry gbase, like a street (a rectangular strip), and a reference geometry gref, like a central line of gbase. The question is what is the function (here named BestBuffer) ...
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What is the width of the beach of a little island polygon?

This is a "classic" problem, that have no practical utility (see note-1 for applications), but illustrate another GIS problems... We can do some approximations to modeling the situation, the real ...
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In ArcMap, what is the difference between Copy Parallel and Buffer?

To build an offset of a linear feature in ArcMap, what is the difference between Copy Parallel and Buffer? In terms of the resulting features and their linear differences from the source linear ...
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Python add-in won't buffer from output layer

I have a simple add-in script for Arcmap 10.1 to create a toolbar, select a layer from a drop down list of the current layers in the project, buffer that layer four-miles, then use the resulting ...
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Geotools // buffer using different CRS

I'm currently having a problem with Geotools. I try to generate a buffer (in meter using Lambert 72) on a map that has WGS84 as it's coordinatesystem. (problem is a bit like this one: ...
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Is there a st_buffer inverse function, that returns a width estimation?

When you supply a geometry g1 and a width w to the standard OGC function ST_Buffer, it returns a new geometry g2, g2 = ST_Buffer(g1,w) This question is about the inverse: a function where you ...
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How to buffer a line with different distances for left/right sides

How can I buffer a line in QGIS using one attribute for the left side of the line and one attribute for the right side of the line? I am trying to buffer a river with its bank width, which is ...
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How can I make a buffer with xxx meter by NetTopologySuite

I am very new in NetTopologySuite, I work with the coordinatesystem in WGS84 by lon/lat, with the NetTopologySuite. I found the Buffer function to create a buffer with a distance, but how can I make a ...

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