Questions tagged [parcel]

Generic term for distinct area of land whose boundaries are often defined by ownership or right-of-use.

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Space filling between random 2D lines

Consider a region (2D) filled with lines randomly (following Figure). We are interested in filling the empty spaces between lines including four boundary edges in a way: 0- maximizing the size of ...
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Correcting gaps and overlapping polygon (parcels) geometry

I have come across a resource that we rely upon almost daily that is in terrible need of repair. It is not our own product and the supplier is generally not interested in fixing the problem. We are ...
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Source for US parcel boundary data?

Where can I find shapefile (or other vector) data for US private parcel boundaries (such as for a plat map)?
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Creating Multi-Part Polygons that touch internally using ArcGIS Desktop?

I have a set of parcels as illustrated in the image below. There are currently no multi-part features in dataset. What I would like to do is to merge (not the right word) all of the parcels with same ...
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Splitting landcover polygons (parcels) into equal sizes, while retaining road access for all?

I would like to split landcover polygons which surround a road polygon into equal sizes, while ALL resulting polygons should have access to the road! Is there any chance to do this automatically? ...
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Export to a Shapefile and maintain Domain Coded Values

I maintain a complex parcel fabric that uses coded value domains for a few fields. These are short integer fields with values from 1 - 6. These values represent say 1:Integrated Registered Survey Plan,...
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Can ArcMap display the individual dimensions of a polygon?

I'm working with parcel data to get the dimensions of each lot to correspond with known dimensions. Is there a way to display the individual lengths of each line comprising the perimeter of a polygon?...
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Parcel Division with Donut Parcels

I am trying to create an environmental sampling plan using an irregular shaped polygon. I need to divide an irregular shaped polygon into 30 equal area polygons. I have multiple sampling plans that I ...
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Land Parcel Numbering Automation in QGIS?

I have a parcel data for which I have to give parcel numbering with some suffix defining its landuse. Is there way to do this in a automation rather than going to each plot and adding attribute ...
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California State Parcel Data

I am looking for California state parcel data such as owner name, no. of stories, year built etc., for each parcel. I can get to the level that I can browse them in property appraiser site but don't ...
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Parcel Fabric vs. Polygon feature class (for land parcel management)

I'm wondering if I should migrate my existing parcel polygons (stored as a feature class in a geodatabase) to a parcel fabric in ArcMap. What are the advantages of doing this? I work for a county so ...
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How to determine Parcel Neighbors?

i like to get the neighbors of the Parcels "P1" like following : From B1 to B2 => P5 B2 => P4 From B2 to B3 => P3 From B3 to B4 => P2 From B4 to B1 => P6 i like to make this process automatic ...
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Goreferencing parcel map

I am attempting to georeference this parcel map from a local assessor's office. In doing so, I am using the georeferencer in QGIS 3.4. I am using the DMS coordinates on the image to reference the ...
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Determining if road is privately owned or not in USA

I'm working on a project where it matters greatly whether or not a piece of land is on a private road. Google Maps in many cases takes private roads (for example in master-planned subdivisions) and ...
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Join a table to a parcel layer and get duplicate parcels, reflecting individual leases

I have a table of 3,000+ lease files that I'm trying to join to our parcel layer. Each parcel has 4+ leases associated with it, and I need each to be represented by an actual polygon. When I do a ...
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Accessing Spanish cadastral data via QGIS

Problem I would like to have access to cadastral data (= land parcels) of Spain in vector format, so I can do further processing on them and put them into a database. I tried to do this multiple ways, ...
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Snap Point to Specific Edge of Polygon

I am working on parcel and point data. I converted polygon (parcel) to point features using ARctool box i.e. feature to point (Original labelled in picture). After this step I want to bring all point ...
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How do I draw smooth vertexes around curves in ArcMap 10+?

I have some polygon layers (parcels) that have vertexes drawn around curves, as if traced. How do I click and drag to draw vertexes in a smooth shape? Big difference between what was originally there, ...
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Opening "Kataster/DKM - Grundstücke" files in QGIS

This website seems to provide cadastre data for Styria (a state in Austria). Writing kataster in the search (Suche) field gives: If I click on the third result, i.e. "Kataster/DKM - Grundstücke&...
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Overlay Analysis in QGIS (or Preferably Python)

I would like to perform an overlay analysis in Python or QGIS to output a list of each shapefile that falls within certain boundaries. I have unsuccessfully tried to use the Spatial Join, Intersect, ...
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Add angle of point from road as seen from left to right?

I have a layer of trees (purple points) that I want to add a column that equals the order of trees by angle if seen from left to right. For example, with the property with three trees, you would stand ...
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Creating curves using the Parcel Editor tool in ArcGIS 10.1

We are migrating parcel editing environments from AutoCAD to ArcGIS and I'm having trouble creating curves within a Parcel Fabric that are not tangent to lines. For example, what would be some ...
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Determining if Parcel is Sub-Dividable?

I am trying to determine which residential real estate parcels are sub-dividable but am running into issues when it comes to placement of an already existing structure on a parcel. For example, let'...
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Get frontage parcels lines for polygonal parcels in PostGIS

I have a polygonal parcel layer. How I can get parcel frontage boundary?
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Arcpy Update Cursor with Character Length

I am attempting to create an update cursor to concatenate fields of a parcel ID based on the amount of characters in the MAPNO field. This is important because the spacing between MAPNO and LOT of ...
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How to copy single polygon and paste multiple times to same layer in Arcmap 10?

I'm attempting to copy a single polygon and paste it 113 times to make "parcels" for a condominium building.
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Splitting all polygon features in a shapefile into smaller equal width polygons

I have a shapefile of thousands of polygon features, that i would like to break up into smaller pieces (i.e. break a square into 8 equal pieces). I have read all over these boards for the right ...
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Finding overlay percentage between two polygon shapefiles

I have two layers that I am currently working with: 1. Parcels/property boundaries and 2. Wetlands I am trying to determine the parcels that have 0 wetlands and then for the parcels that do have ...
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Displaying combined data values in ArcMap

I've got some data in an attributes table and I would like to know how I can combine them in order to get an unique value in the map. For instance, Attribute: Type Value: Street Those values I ...
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How do you create a point within a polygon that is the farthest from all edges of the polygon in ArcGIS Pro?

I am curious how one could create a centroid for an irregularly shaped polygon in ArcGIS Pro, that lies within that polygon's boundaries, with the concept of centroid in this case meaning a point ...
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Making pop-ups offset from default location in ArcGIS Online to avoid covering of area under consideration?

I am working on a property parcel and have to show the pop-ups in ArcGIS Online. But when I click on the property the pop-ups partially cover the property. The goal is the take screenshot of property ...
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Update Parcel Records with Values from Other Parcel Feature without using Join or Field Calculate

We have a model/script that is set to run on a weekly basis, and is meant to update our parcel records using the parcel records from our county. Our parcels are stored in an SDE geodatabase version 10....
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How to link a pdf file to a specific feature with QGIS? [duplicate]

I'm trying to link a pdf to a parcel (see image: https://i.stack.imgur.com/ienKm.jpg) where you click on one parcel and a specific pdf comes up and if you click on another then a different pdf comes ...
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How do you create a query that will result with the adjacent parcels?

I have a shapefile with parcel data, and I am trying to create a query that will render a list or something similar that will list adjacent parcels to a specific parcel. I want to be able to select ...
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How to only select contiguous parcels that have the same ownership AND exclude those owners that have parcels that are non-contiguous (QGIS)

I have a shapefile containing parcel data for multiple counties, and I'm trying to narrow this dataset with the following conditions: 1.) Identify owners with contiguous parcels AND 2.) Exclude owners ...
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How can I assign an attribute to a feature derived from the majority area overlap of features from another feature class?

I'm working with two datasets, a parcel layer and a zoning layer, where the parcel table does not contain zoning information. I would like to attach the zoning information to the parcel layer using a ...
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Identifying Parcels on Street Junction in QGIS

I have the following shapefiles (click here to download them): parcels polygon parcels point streets/row polygon streets line I use QGIS to manually identify polygon parcels with street corners (...
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Boundary of merged parcel feature does not disappear after merge

In QGIS, when I merge several parcel features using Merge Selected Features, some of the boundary of parcels still remains. Steps I used: Enabled snapping options. Enabled Toggle Editing. Select Add ...
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Where are Block and Lot fields in Esri Local Government Information Model Geodatabase Schema?

I am looking at the ESRI Local Government Information Model (LGIM) geodatabase schema and I cannot find the Feature Class that holds the parcels' Block and Lot information. Do you know which Feature ...
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How to download all parcel boundaries of North Rhine-Westphalia?

Context I'd like to download North Rhine-Westphalia's cadastre parcels as GeoJSON. Their website provides a WFS URL: https://www.wfs.nrw.de/geobasis/wfs_nw_inspire-flurstuecke_alkis?REQUEST=...
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Python for finding viable solar parcels close to power line

I am currently working on a project for a solar company and we are interested in finding the closest parcels to a power line. For this project we have a few different shapefiles, parcels (dissolved by ...
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Union based on string of identifiers PostGIS

I have a table of documents relating to several parcels of land. I have in this table the identifiers (numerals, sometimes interspaced by "/"- text field, delimited by commas). I also have a ...
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QGIS Joining Parcel Polygons where overlay of Building Footprints crosses Multiple Parcels

QGIS 3.4.4 Polygon Layer 1 = Land Parcels Polygon Layer 2 = Building Footprints Some buildings exist across several parcels. How can I use the information in Layer 2 (red in the image below) to ...
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Parcel Width by Line Segment Closest to Street

My end goal is to calculate parcel widths (polygons). I use ArcGIS 10.6 but can also use QGIS if a solution requires it. please note not all parcels are regular shapes, some are irregular I ...
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Can you search by the parcel number shown in the "What's Here" pop-up on Google Maps?

When you right click on a location in Google Maps and select "What's Here", it usually provides an address and the coordinates. However when I click inside a lot (e.g. on a farm) I often get a parcel ...
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Digitizing parcel data and adding attributes to create interactive map [closed]

I am quite new to mapping and am attempting to learn by taking on an arbitrary little project (I also don't know how to code hope that's not going to be a problem). I want to create an interactive map ...
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Display google map with boundary lines for each address

I am working on Google MAP API integration and I have tried to display the map with boundary lines for each address, such as Zillow.com. Eg: http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/priced_sort/25.945776,...
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Parcel ID Mapping (brainstorming) [closed]

In my project I have a table full of residential properties by Parcel_ID. Table 2 is a TIGER streets shapefile. I would like to build a query in MS Access displaying all properties within a mile ...
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Finding real world reference points on assessor's map

This is probably a very basic question, but I don't even know the right terms to use to start searching for what I need. I'm new to this, but I want to learn. I have the following assessor's map, and ...
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Join Attribute Table with multiple owners with only one Parcel

I have a problem in QGIS. I have an attribute table (no geographical information), which contains owners of parcels and an ID for every row. Then I have a shapefile, which contains polygons and an ...
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