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Create annotation layer with follow feature option set as default

I would like to create an annotation layer that has the "follow feature" option as the default. I've looked all over and can't seem to figure out how to do this from the initial annotation layer ...
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How to cluster features based on their proximity?

I have around 500 features (Forests) that I want to cluster based on their proximity, and then work with those clusters. I only have the ID, and shape area of those features. How can I cluster them?
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How to remove long linear strips from polygons?

I have a polygon layer representing impervious land cover. This was taken from a land cover raster dataset. The impervious data represents all impervious surface that is not buildings or roads. I ...
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Creating a feature of a part of a state boundary from a shapefile of U.S. States

I have a shapefile of U.S. states. I want to create a feature layer from it so that I can do a Near analysis with it. Suppose that I am interested in the Georgia boundary, but only the part of ...
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How can I increase performance on inserting features with polygon geometry?

I have a problem when inserting features with polygon feature class in FGDB. This is my code: ... initialising some fields (does not affect performance) m_featureBuffer.Shape = ...
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How to export multiple featureclasses to shapefiles?

I have plenty features in a geodatabase. I need to save/export them into shapefiles, because my mate works with Manifold, which is not able to read geodatabases. Any Ideas? Click on every single layer ...
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Query against FeatureClass for a layer

This is some code that I am using to try to get a working IFeatureLayer from a subset of data from a database table. The fourth line containing "fcWkspc.OpenFeatureQuery" throws and error complaining ...
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What's the difference between feature class and feature layer?

This may be very trivial question. To me they seems very similar in concept. What's the difference between feature class and feature layer?
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Delete SDE feature class features with ArcPy

I'm working on a script that will empty my SDE database of all data. How would I go about deleting features from feature classes using ArcPy? I have an SDE connection created with a user that should ...
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How to integrate OpenLayers and ArcGIS Server?

I am using the OpenLayers JavaScript API within a web application. I am displaying non-base layers hosted on an ArcGIS server. When I load the ArcGIS layers, I load them using ...
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Cutting features in ArcGIS 10

What´s the easiest/smartest way of getting the opposite output of the clipping tool? I just need the area of feature A1 which is not covered by feature A2 in a new Layer/File. Now, I get the result by ...
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How to query OSM tags by polygon?

I do not know whether something like this is possible but nonetheless. If I understand OSM correctly all objects essentially have associated tags based on type of object (street, building etc) ... ...
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Need to delete all but one feature from a set of features with the same ID, keeping the one with the largest area

I have a large polygon layer in which most of the polygons have a unique name in a text field. Of the hundreds that aren't unique, there will be 2-4 polygons with the same name but different ...
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Simple Features and ArcGIS Domains

I am working with a number of detailed ArcGIS Geodatabases with domains used to enforce specific workflows, etc. This is all good and great, but I would like to move my data into either a ...
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Split a Quad to 1:7,500 Question

Here I have 1:24,000k quads. I know how to use the word split toolbox. What I would like to split 24,000K to 1:7,500 or 6,000k. Is there a way around for me to do that ? For example,, if you have one ...
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IFeatureBuffer - performance considerations (ArcObjects)

I'm trying to optimize my code to make it faster. I have a loop that reads some string input and creates points with the help of IFeatureBuffer and IFeatureCursor. If I create the buffer inside tho ...
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How to make 2 feature layers congruent?

I have 2 feature layers (polyline/polygon) which should be congruent but there's an offset of about 220 meters. The GEOREFERENCING TOOL does only work with raster layers. But what's with a feature ...
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Referencing Feature Dataset in File Geodatabase with ArcPy

It's probably an obvious one but since I'm new to arcpy I'd appreciate any help. I'm trying to develop an arcpy script which will eventually loop through number of rasters and feature classes stored ...
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How to delete records from multiple, similar feature classes by attribute values using an SQL statement?

I have several hundred geodatabase feature classes which all have the exact same fields. I need to go through each of those feature classes and delete any records which match an SQL query (the same ...
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ArcObjects (vba) update selected feature/record

I would like to edit a selected feature/record via ArcMap vba, but I'm not having much luck with this code sample (see code below). I'm not getting an error, but the record selected is not updating. ...