Geoprocessing is a GIS operation used to manipulate GIS data.

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How to create iterative Select by Location, Summary Statistics tool using ModelBuilder?

I do a lot of proximity analysis using "select by location" and would like to cut down on the effort spent each time doing this! I have put together a model using ModelBuilder that: Iterates over ...
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Batch Converting ASCII into Feature Classes using shapefile lists

Problem. I have 413 ASCII files totalling 4 billion points, and my system cannot handle converting them to MULTIPOINT so that I can generate Terrains. Therefore I would like to create 12+ subsets of ...
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AGS 10.1 geoprocessing service returning the wrong URL

I have an image export geoprocessing service that runs on ArcGIS server 10.1. It works by writing an image out to the scratch folder, and returning the location of that image. Basically just this: ...
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Opening geoprocessing tools causes ArcGIS to hang

I am getting the same problem as http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/19468-Opening-tools-causes-ArcMap-to-freeze-crash That is, when I open any geoprocessing tool in ArcCatalog (might happen in ArcMap ...
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How to write a script to square polygon corners?

I'm looking for a script that will square the corners of polygons that are near 90 degrees but not exactly. Near could be dealt with via a variable, for example within 5 degrees of 90 (85 - 95 ...
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How to return FeatureLayer from gp service(using custom function tool) (.NET)?

My basic problem is that I have a custom function tool HLZCalulation that I created. It takes in a string to a file gdb , opens it, does some calculations, and then returns a featurelayer with the ...
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Problem when executing Dissolve method in ArcEngine

I'm always having a problem in GP.execute() when trying to execute this method. Here is my code: Friend Function DissolveFeatures(ByVal pInFLayer As ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IFeatureLayer, ByVal ...
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Custom c# GP Tool ArcGIS Server 10.1 - build for 'Any CPU', x86, or 64bit? Does it matter?

I think I understand most explanations of these targets, but I get confused in the context of ArcGIS customizations like this because what we are compiling has to work in conjunction with ArcGIS, not ...
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How to use Memory layers in QGIS plugin to store results of Geoprocessing tools

I'm building a plugin to perform Multi Criteria Analysis (yes another one...). As part of my workflow intersecting vectorlayers is needed. I use QgsOverlayAnalyzer.intersection (a pity union is not ...
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ArcGIS Server 10.1 Geoprocessing service weirdly changed file path

I encountered a weird phenomenon on my ArcGIS Server 10.1. I have a geoprocessing tool that exports a mxd file to an image file on my local directory, say "c://map/dir/export/image.png" It worked ...
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How to dissolve polygons that have been split back into their original polygons?

I had a feature class containging about a thousand polygons.After some processing such as intersecting, dissolving, merging, more intersecting, I ended up with a feature class of about 6000 polys. ...
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What is fastest way to copy feature dataset from ArcSDE to File Geodatabase in ModelBuilder?

What geoprocessing tool is the fastest for copying feature datasets from SDE to fgdb? I want to make a model in ModelBuilder that copies an entire featuredataset from my SDE database to a file ...
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Grid perspective tool

I'm not a cartographer, but want to use a map for my project from world atlas book. I scanned the map, but no matter how carefully it is scanned, it's perspective is slightly distorted and it's ...
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Invalid return value: published arcgis server 10.0 toolbox

I have a published toolbox that is using conditional execution in one of its models: This works fine in ArcGIS Desktop 10.0, and each sub model\script works fine when run separately from this model ...
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How to create Online IDW(Inverse Distance Weighted) Interpolation?

I have some point data which store as JSON.As follow: [["Lat":"12.12","Long":"23.23","ZValue":"123"],...]. I tried to interpolate them as contour line and displayed them on my ...
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Flex Geoprocessing Widget output parameter invalid

I want to publish a ArcToolbox with a script on a Flex application as a widget. I have ArcGIS server from which I will publish it as a geoprocessing service. The tool has an input parameter which is a ...
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Clipping MrSID files

Does anyone have experience subsetting/clipping a large NAIP imagery file in MrSID format? Some of the NAIP files we have are by county and they have really large file sizes. The files are from the ...
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ArcGIS Can't get ResultImageLayer

I am unable to get a ResultImageLayer. I can get a GPFeatureRecordSetLayer using ResultData and add the feature geometries individually. I am using ArcServer 10.1 so it is not a pre-release problem. ...
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Proximity Toolset Questions - Description, Examples of Usage, and Limitations

I was wondering if you could help me answer a few questions about the Proximity Toolset. I have been given the task of describing each tool in laymen terms, the typical usage of each tool, and most ...
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Cancel event in Python Gp tools with arcpy

In GP-tools written in C# (ArcObjects) we can listen for the Cancel-event and react on that. I wonder if there is anything similar in Python GP-tools applying arcpy. I googled that issue and the only ...
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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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Error Input FeatureClass Arcgis 10 VB.net And Geoprocessing

I have a problem when i execute GeoProcessing in ArcEngine 10 with VB.net i had create the toolbox : Models.tbx and Model Process : disolveRoute with 2 parameters My Function is : Sub diso() ...
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Why does a geoprocessing service fail every other time it is run?

I have a ArcGIS Server 10 geoprocessing service right now that takes in a string and runs a parameterized query to SQL Server 2008R2 through pyodbc. The service works, but only every other time. I can ...
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How to calculate weighted mean coordinates within polygons?

I'm using QGIS 1.8 on OSX 10.8.3. I have a polygon shapefile of all of the US state legislative districts. I also have a layer of points that are centroids of US Census Tracts, with a field for the ...
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How to remove coastlines from Admin 0 data set using GRASS?

I have a set of international borders that I would like to overlay on top of a different data layer that represents coastlines ("land" essentially). I would like to convert my Admin 0 polygons into ...
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Problem with deployment of GeoProcessors

I am developing an AddIn which requires lots of Geoprocessing but whenever I deploy any Geoprocessor, the ArcMap crashes and its always with the Geoprocessors only. All other commands are working fine ...
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Geoprocessing operations re-introduce geometry errors after “repair geometry” succeeds

I am working with a shapefile that has many small, detailed polygons. After exporting it to a feature class in a geodatabase, I found that some operations (for example, Snap in the Editing Toolbox) ...
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Reclassify raster tool in ArcGIS 10 creating no-data cells

I have been attempting to calculate a slope raster in ArcGis 10, and have been encountering a problem where cells which previously had data appear as no data cells in a few places on the raster ...
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Info from the getResultImageLayer missing

I was finally able to get the result layer overlaid on my application but now I am facing another problem. The output of the layer url does not show any field or attribute details. I am not sure why ...
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Calculating tiles extents using some level data

I have some data looking like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <levels> <level nr="0" tileWidth="512" tileHeight="512" envSizeX="5000" envSizeY="5000" minX="465000" ...
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Hack to change data source of a layer file in ArcGIS 9.3.1 with python?

I'm looking for a way to change the source of my layer file using python. Actually I want to do this because I need to re-use a XSL template which is defined under the tap HTML popup of the layer ...
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How to solve 'A failure was detected in the topology engine' error?

I am running a series of geoprocessing tools in a custom C# Geoprocessing Tool. First a new File gdb is created, and then a new featuredatset with the given spatial reference is created, and a ...
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Geographic limit to overlay analysis in geoprocessing service

Function: I've created a geoprocessing service that serves a toolbox containing a custom python tool. This python tool selects a polygon and buffers it by 1 mile. This buffer is then used to ...
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Buffer aggregation method in OpenCarto library

What is the use case of this function? Can it be used to aggregate building polygons as well?
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Looking for .NET Heat Map API / SDK

I have a requirement to add a 'heat map' style layer to a Javascript/jQuery based application that I am working on. So far, I have used heatmap.js with no problems at all. My only concern with this ...
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Access Geoprocessing results in Flex Viewer (Enhanced) Search Widget

I have Robert Scheitlin's Enhanced Search Widget up and running successfully with my MapService using ArcGIS Server and Flex Viewer 2.3. I also have a geoprocessing service that returns a point layer ...
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Relate first point and last point of polyline to point feature(s)

I am working on a small script using ArcMap10/arcpy to generate a upstream-downstream uniqueid for a polyline feature class using point id's that fall on the starting point and ending point of a line. ...
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ArcMap crashing in geoprocessing script with AreaSolarRadiation. Does a log file exist?

I am writing a greoprocessing script in python and running it in arcmap 10. The script works as expected until it gets to an area solar radiation calculation AreaSolarRadiation(input_dem, "", "400", ...
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Example of RasterData class in ArcGIS for Flex

How would I use the RasterData class in com.esri.tasks.supportClasses for ArcGIS API for Flex? I haven't found any documentation for it outside the API and that doesn't give much info either. Could I ...
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JavaScript Api geo processing - internal server error 500

I am trying to run a geo processing task using Java Script API for Arcgis. I have created a simple buffer task, published using Arcgis server (synchronous) and used the same (almost) code as the view ...
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'Iterate Field Values' for Multiple Fields in ModelBuilder

I have a model that iterates a process for each unique field value of [Type] field. The model aggregates polygons of a like Type, and at the end of the model a new field is created and populated with ...
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How to get SplineWithBarriers to work in C#

I have been having fits trying to get SplineWithBarriers to work but to no avail. My environment: Windows 7 64 bit Visual Studio 2010 Team Edition ArcMap Release Version 10.0 Product Version: ...
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Conversion to Raster issue in ArcGIS 9.3.1

Trying to convert a polygon to raster in ArcGIS gives me an error... I am wondering if there is another way around to do this? I am using ArcGIS 9.3.1. The error i am getting is number 9999 when I ...
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Congressional Redistricting

I have a project coming up where I need to create new congressional district looking at only total population data. I am planning on using the census tract level of data, but I am having some ...
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R Raster package: write NetCDF with time dimension

I am writing a rasterbrick with multiple layers to a netcdf file using the raster package in R: writeRaster(gridfile, "Data", "CDF", overwrite=TRUE, ...
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Why has Arc's Analysis Tools>Overlay>Identity tool not populated the fields in the output table with the input features' attributes?

I've benefitted from the answers on this site a couple of times - thanks all!!, but this is the first question I have posted. I'd like to know the stream length in a number of watersheds I'm working ...
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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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How to set tolerance value of Geoprocessing tool in QGIS?

Is it possible to set tolerance value of geoprocessing tool on QGIS. History is below. There are two polygon which have to be the same position. so, I set topological rule "A must covered by B" on ...
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Retrieving the data from SQL database is taking much more time than expected

I am creating a block wise vector layer and related data stored in a sql database while retrieving the data from the SQL database through querying and would represent the result on a map. This is ...
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location name judger

I am making a project which requires me to find out if a particular word in a sentence is the name of a city/state/country/any location basically. Can you please help me with some app/ a database.

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