Clipping is the restriction of a spatial feature to a polygonal region, often a rectangle.

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Trying to use clip tool but keep getting ERROR999999?

The layer being used as the 'clip features' has been used before and worked fine, so i assume the issue is the layer im trying to clip (Input Features) - I keep receiving the same error when running ...
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Clipped raster leaks outside polygons

I am trying to clip a raster (DEM) with a polygon layer in ArcGIS10.1, using Data Management>>Raster>>Clip. Basically the clipped raster has many pixels outside the polygon boundary, mainly for thin ...
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Is it possible to batch clip rasters in Quantum GIS?

I have been able to batch clip rasters in one directory using python in ArcGIS. However, I am not sure how to do the same in Quantum using the python console. Is this possible? If there are different ...
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Differences Between the Clip Tool and the Intersect Tool

How is the clip tool different from the intersect tool in terms of how it works or the result? I don't have a specific situation in mind. I was learning about each of these tools and was curious about ...
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Maps with Clipping on ArcGIS Server

We are publishing raster layers (computed via kriging) to ArcGIS server 10.1. A significant feature of our local geography is a large body of water, in our case, Lake Michigan. Although I can clip ...
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How to prevent Qgis clipper to clamp nodata values?

I'm trying to crop some old georeferenced cartography in order to have a continuous map (every map has its blank borders that overlaps). Usign raster->extract->clipper and setting no value to -32768 ...
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Clipping buffers to census tracts

I have donut buffers generated to protect anonymity of household locations. They need to be clipped so that they are only inside the census tract that the original point was in. The code takes about 8 ...
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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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Create a subset of a dataset with a specific grid size in ArcGIS using Data Management Tool

I am wondering how you can create a subset of a dataset that is a specific grid size (in pixels) using the Clip tool within the Data Management Tool box for raster data. I was trying to find a hint ...
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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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Weird File Path Returning from Print Statement Causing ERROR 000732

I have created a python script in ArcGIS 10.1. My first parameter type is a 'Feature Layer' set to as a multivalue input. I was running my script quite well off of data from one of my drives (my ...
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clipping polygons (vector) map with a polygon (vector) layer

A frustrated newbie with QGIS Lisboa version in Windows 7. I want to clip a soil map (multiple polygon vectors) with a single polygon (rectangular polygon vector). The project projection is set at ...
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Is there a way to call the clip function in QQGIS from the python console?

Is there a way to call the clip function in QQGIS from the python console? It is found under geoprocessing tools in the vector menu.
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Arcpy error message: 'Layer' object is not subscriptable?

What the code does successfully so far, is gets a list of the layers in the first data frame of the current map. What it doesn't succeed in doing is, joining the layer names to the gdb location using ...
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Why does Clip analysis generate (some) empty output?

I am running a script that is working (see below) - it pulls a file from a folder, clips from that file based on an intersection with another file, and creates a new shapefile in a new folder. It has ...
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Is it possible to Clip in ArcExplorer?

Is it possible to clip in Desktop Explorer? Or does anyone know of any Analysis Servers I can connect to to get it?
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Cut a layer into many parts using a shapfile

I have a layer which is a map of a town, and a shapefile which shows the boundaries within that town. I wish to cut the layer up along each of the internal boundaries so that I end up with many ...
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How to clip a layer file

I have a world imagery layer that I want to clip to a single county. I would just save as a JPEG and edit using other software, but this uses a lot of processing power if I want a high resolution. I ...
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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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What Crop tools are available in QGIS to alter a raster .SHP layer

I'm successful in getting heat maps which resolve around my data; however the area of the Heat map raster layer is perhaps 50-100 times the point set perimeter and the cell size is way too large for ...
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Extract polygon from several FC in one process

I've built a polygon and used Clip (Analysis Tools) in order to extract information from several FC that intersect the polygon. Of course, I used the clip tool for each feature class. My boss wants a ...
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How to clip Raster using multiple polygons and Python? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: clipping a raster by multiple datasets or polygons I have polygon layer and DEM and I want to write a program using python to cut the raster into multi-raster based on ...
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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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How can I clip a shapefile?

I have a SHP that includes the entire county and want to downsize it to a specific area...how??
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shapefile batch clip and merge combined

I have two shapefiles, one is polyline, the other polygon. For each polygon I would like to clip the polyline vectors inside. Using arcpy I already found part of a possible solution: ...
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Output of QGIS raster clipper not as expected?

My goal is to clip a raster with a polygon in QGIS 1.8. Based on an article I read, this should be a pretty straightforward task. However, the output appears to be empty. The raster produced is the ...
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ModelBuilder: Multiple Iterators and Clipping

I have two separate polygon layers. One layer consists of voronoi polygons. The second layer consists of buffers, many of which overlap. I need to do is iterate through each voronoi, clip only the ...
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How to subset X number of features from Shape file in QGIS

I'm looking for a means to take a rather large Shape file and split it out into separate, smaller shapefiles based on number of features. So for example, if I have a file with 1 million features, ...
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Clip Spatial object to bounding box in R

Given a Spatial object in R, how do I clip all of its elements to lie within a bounding box? There are two things I'd like to do (ideally I'd know how to do both, but either is an acceptable solution ...
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How Can I Clip a Basemap with an ascii file?

I'm new here but with many doubts.I work with ArcGIS 10 and I add a basemap layer from the ArcGIS online but I just want the continent coverage to my map,and the area that I wanted I have an ascii ...
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How to clip from a point layer using postgis?

I've loaded a LIDAR xyz file into a PostGIS2.0 database and created a 3D point geometry column ("tblCLOUD") from the data. I've also loaded into the database a shapefile that contains six ...
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How to generate discrete areas from multiple, overlapping features?

I have a point dataset that I want to append some information from a polygon to. My polygon shapefile contains over 500 features. Whilst each of these features represents individual areas they are ...
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Determine density or cover from a raster layer that has been clipped by a polygon

I am a very new GIS user using ArcMap 10. I have a raster layer of tree canopy that I have clipped so that the layer is in a polygon that is a circle with a 2km radius. I have done this for four ...
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Clipping .mdb in place and schema locks

I have an .mdb with a feature class that I want to clip in place - that is, I want to clip it with another polygon, and then store the results back in the original .mdb. I am doing this with arcpy. My ...
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Using clip tool in qgis - contours to exact map area

I am using QGIS. I am trying to clip contours and water vector layers to the exact size of my map (polygon layer). Sometimes it works; sometimes the program crashes before completion (at the same ...
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How to get an extent for Raster using python

I have to get an extent of a given raster so that I can save it and use the same to clip another raster with that extracted extent. As of now I am stuck in the extent part. import arcpy from arcpy ...
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From Raster to Masked and Filtered Polygon Vector

I have a set of rasters (geologic risk) from which I want to extract zones with a specific color, clipping them with a polygon (administrative borders), outputting a shapefile. I'm using QGis (and ...
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How to clip data when using data driven pages in ArcMap 10?

I am working on a map book using data driven pages of the Silvies Valley in Northeastern Oregon. The basemap is a high resolution aerial image (raster) of Oregon with a shapefile overlay of USGS ...
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QGIS & GeoTIFF clipping Error “-srcwin 5897 137 0 0 falls outside raster size of 11083x4158 or is otherwise illegal.”

I'm trying to clip a GeoTIFF file and unfortunately I'm getting the following Error "-srcwin 5897 137 0 0 falls outside raster size of 11083x4158 or is otherwise illegal." From another post ...
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How to surround a clipped raster with transparency? (gdalwarp)

I am trying to perform the following task, but it does not seem to work: I have got a raster file (raster.tif) containing an aerial photo, which I want to clip using a Shape file (clip.shp) that ...
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Clipping Rasters with a mask layer error

I've got a NDVI layer that I'm trying to clip with a vector file but when I try and use GDAL Tools clipper I get an error. That shows up like this: What am I doing wrong? This is before I even pick ...
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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 I correctly use 'MultiValue' in Python script parameters?

Good evening My script works fine with a single feature class selected for clip_fc = arcpy.GetParameter(0) . However when I set clip_fc to MultiValue in the script properties and then select several ...
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Is there a way to get at C's OGRLayer.Intersection() or OGRLayer.Clip() in Python?

I am working with OGR in Python and noticed that the C libraries have useful Intersection() and Clip() functions as part of the Layer class. Is there any way to get at these functions in Python? I ...
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How to interpolate while providing clipping geometry? (ArcGIS 10)

Is there a way to interpolate (IDW) while providing clipping geometry? My objective is that I want to interpolate temperature data but I do not want it to interpolate the entire extent of the point ...
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How to cut one ESRI Shapefile with another ESRI Shapefile?

I have one ESRI Shapefile as a map with many objects in it. I have another ESRI Shapefile only with borders in it. This shapefile is bigger in size (covering a bigger area) with many border lines. ...
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Rasterfile clipping error: Cannot compute bounding box of cutline

I have a raster file and want to clip it, a vector file is supposed to be the mask layer. I use the most obvious method (Raster->Extraction->Clipper). No matter what I do, I get this error (see pic): ...
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How can I estimate kernel density, taking barriers (i.e. a priori zero-probability regions) into account?

How can I estimate kernel density, taking barriers (i.e. a priori zero-probability regions) into account? At the moment, regions where the population cannot occur are clipped out for display. ...
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Output raster extents when using the Spatial Analyst Extract By Mask tool to clip a raster

I am using ArcGIS 9.2 and I have a simple python script that does the following : Loop over a polygon feature class (shown in red in the image below) For each record, create a feature layer to ...
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Clipping from a given point

I am working with model-builder and I am trying to clip an area around a certain point. Is there a tool that I can use in which I can assign it a certain distance from the point. For instance, if I ...

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