On a map, a closed shape defined by a connected sequence of x,y coordinate pairs, where the first and last coordinate pair are the same and all other pairs are unique.

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Counting road intersections and blocks

I have a shp file that consists of the road system of Mexico City. I would like to count the number of road intersections (crossings) and blocks (which I would define as a segment starting from one ...
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How to calculate forest area of a bitmap (jpeg) map?

I have a map of 1:50,000 scale map in .jpg format. Can i calculate the land area of forest,lakes etc from arcmap.Anybody can give me the step to do it? And I want to know what is the coordinate ...
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Is it possible to make a routable graph from Polygons?

I would like to know if it is possible to make a graph with pgrouting 1.05 on polygons. What I mean is that I have to make a graph on a database without roads but with polygon geometry. I would like ...
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How to determine if a polygon is self-intersecting using either ArcPad 8.0 or ArcMap 9.3.1?

I am try to automate a sync replica mxd a nightly basis. The issue I am running into is that in some the of the AXFs (that I get from the users and check-in) have polygons that are self-intersecting ...
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How to auto fill or delete sliver polygons without losing precision?

I am developing some boundaries in which precision holds the key value. Using ArcGIS 9.3 I am converting lines to polygons using the "feature to polygon" tool. The lines are accurate but I find ...
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Assign unique ID to each polygon

I feel like this should be really simple and I am missing something. All I wish to do is assign a unique ID to each polygon since I have multiple identical FID values. In MS excel I would simply type ...
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Sum of areas in all each polygon layer?

I've got several layers/feature classes in an ArcMap 10 project. Thanks to everyone's help, I'm able to get the areas for the polygons contained within each layer. By opening the attribute tables ...
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Polygon to fill gap

Using postgis I want to fill a gap between other polygons. Can you help with some directions what functions to use ? Thank you and sorry if the question is rather noobish. Image to explain from ...
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arcpy points in polygon check

I have a list of points and a list of polygons both in a separate shape files. I am trying to write a ArcPy script to loop through the points, and then the polygons respectively and tell me when a ...
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How to convert a polygon to a grid of polygons using QGIS?

For example, the city of Rotterdam represented as a hexagonal grid.
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Label inside top left corner of polygons

Does anyone know of a tool or procedure to automatically place a label in the corner of a polygon, rather than at the centroid? I am using Mapinfo and know that I can manually place the label ...
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How to add a polygon from GeoJson into Leaflet?

I try to use the following function to add polygons to my Leaflet map. function polygon(geojson) { alert(geojson); // alert for testing layer = L.geoJson(geojson); layer.addTo(map); } ...
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Dissolve polygons - group to others with touching corners

I am working with some data that shows land management. There are many places where corners "touch". I would like to dissolve my dataset so that features are grouped (dissolved) with those that they ...
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count features in polygon shapefile A that fall within each feature of polygon shapefile B

I have two polygon shapefiles, each of which contain multiple (possibly overlapping) polygons. Is there some way, using GRASS, to calculate the number of polygons belonging to shapefile A that fall ...
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Clip raster to multi raster

I have a raster aerial photo. I have county wide parcel data. I want to clip/screen shot the raster at each individual parcel. Think of this application - a post card with an image of your house ...
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Polygon Nodes do not have separate coordinates [duplicate]

I'm attempting to measure the distance of a series of points from a smaller number of polygons. As a first step, I've changed the polygons into points along their border, via the Vector> Geometry ...
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Openlayers remove previously drawn polygon on starting to draw next one

Objective: At any point of time there SHOULD only be zero/one polygon(s) on a vector layer with a polygon control. I need the previous polygon to be removed as soon as user starts drawing the first ...
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Why is ArcMap 10.0 editor deleting some added vertices and simplifying polygon?

I am using ArcMap 10.0. I am trying to edit (and add) vertices in a polygon. I start editing, (using "Edit Vertices" tool), and add many vertices in the polygon. Then when I am done, I save the ...
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One Polygon Joining to Database with Many matching records

Using ArcMap 10.1. Is this possible to have one polygon and join to a database/excel with many matching records? I would like to have 1 polygon but match to 100 corresponding records in a table. When ...
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What is the Quickest Way to Update Polygon Geometries in ArcGIS

I have a shapefile which contains the approximate boundaries for sites that are being worked on (thousands) in polygons, each with a reference number and additional detail in the attribution. I have ...
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How can I aggregate points to polygons?

I am trying to aggregate my data points to the polygons so that I could find out how many points I actually have in each polygon, and then export the data contained within each polygon to further look ...
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I wanting to reproject the vertices of my polygon. I have been able to achieve this for the bounds but having a bit of trouble with the vertices

I wanting to reproject the vertices of my polygon. I have been able to achieve this for the bounds but having a bit of trouble with the vertices. function onFeatureModified(event) { ...
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Unproject Radius with Openlayers with CRS:84 Projection

I have made a Openlayers integrated map that lets you draw a circle, On completion of the circle I have told the map to give me , Bounds, Center Long and Lats, and lastly the radius. My problem is ...
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merging 2 polygon adjacent to each other using R

I have several shp files which are the components (or tiles) of a map, I have joint all these tiles together to have a large shp file. Then I realized some of the polygon is now splitted into 2 ...
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Highlighting and exporting raster layer based on vector polygon

I am a Quantum GIS beginner. I have a set of adjacent polygons in a vector layer that is overlaid on a raster layer of OS StreetView OpenData. I want to be able to select each of these polygons and ...
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How to get polygons from PostGIS table to PHP array best?

Currently I fetch polygons from a database table using ST_AsText(). The results are in text format, like the following. POLYGON((84 104,212 48,321 122,243 179,275 238,131 240,84 104)) I am not ...
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How to convert a shapefile polygon to raster in C#

Does anybody know a way to convert a polygon (vector) in a shapefile to raster data WITHOUT using ArcGIS Explorer Desktop? Is there a way to do this 'progmatically' in C# (WPF with ArcGIS runtime ...
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How to create one KML per polygon (from one Shapefile)?

I have a shapefile containing hundreds of polygons. I need to create a kml of each of the polygon. Is there any way that I may not have to deal each polygon individually and my polygon file may give ...
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information from a shapefile to another shapefile

I am very new to GIS and learning by myself so what I'm about to ask is possibly quite basic. I am using QGIS. I have a shapefile, which categorizes areas (land cover) by numbers (corresponding to ...
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QGIS, how do you break segments of a polygon, ie break 1 polygon into 2 or more?

I have a polygon but would like it to be in broken up to put into different layers. I can't work out how to do this.
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gdal_rasterize -at function still won't capture covered pixels properly

I'm currently using the gdal_rasterize tool in bash. My code looks like this: gdal_rasterize -l $(basename $file .shp) -burn 1 -a_nodata 0 -te -180 -90 180 90 -tr 0.1 0.01 -at -ot Byte $file ...
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Summarize polygon area using another polygon

I have a shapefile representing public/private lands in Montana. This is a multipart shapefile where I've simplified attributes so that #1==private and #0==public. Next I have a shapefile of ...
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How to create a generalized polygon layer from a raster?

I have a tiff file where I have extracted vegetation in a height interval from LIDAR. At the moment the picture is kind of blurry with no data cells between vegetated cells. I would like to create a ...
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How to query points that fall outside their designated regions?

I have a shapefile with 250 points. Each point has a region attribute. In another shapefile I have all the possible regions with their names (it is polyline geometry). Unfortunately the coordinates ...
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How to identify Polygon within another Polygon layer

I have two polygons files. The first one has several smaller polygons within it eg.a shapefile with all US states, the other polygon file has a single polygon eg. a river basin. I am trying to get all ...
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How to combine “positive” with “negative” polygons

I have 2 polygone classes (1 and 2). Inside the polygons are holes (white). Now I want to combine them with the polygon in witch the holes are. Understand? Sorry for that bad english... The white ...
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How to color markers based on polygon area?

I have a map with around 317 markers and each marker is the center point of a polygon. The polygonal area varies throughout, so I want to represent the markers in such a way that the polygon with the ...
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Aggregate Data between Polygons

I have data at the ZIP3 level and I need to join it to a state file. I also need the data within the zip3 file to be averaged, but for some reason when I use the join tools, i'm not getting the ...
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Openlayers Vector Layer Polygons not displaying properly with OSM

So I have an Openlayers map displaying Acetate tiles in OSM, and I'm drawing polygon regions on a vector layer to represent the countries of the world. This works fine for the most part, however, ...
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Openlayers vector feature coordinates are not transforming,

I have a OpenLayers vector with a single feature [0]. It's coordinates are in the map projection (EPSG:3413) and I want them in WGS84 (EPSG:4326) decimal degrees. I have the following code which ...
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Are polygons created in Arcpy built in any order?

My script uses a search cursor to evaluate polyline coordinates and build polygons based on those coordinates. The script works well, but I am curious as to whether anyone knows the order (if there ...
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Line to Polygon via Polygonizer in QGIS

My question is in the same vein as this one. I'm attempting to convert precipitation lines (Precipitación Media Anual) to a polygon for Mexico in QGIS using the Polygonizer plugin. After running the ...
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How can I move two layers at once in QGIS?

I'm trying to move two digitized layers, one containing points, the other polygons to a different location at the same time. QGIS doens't seem to allow this. Even if I select both layers and features ...
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graduated pattern polygon fill

I'm sure this question is really really basic but I appeal to you because I hate the idea that I have spent 20 minutes trying to do such a simple thing... All I want to do is style a polygon layer by ...
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Avoid rounding of coordinates in pyQgis

If I get the coordinates of a polygon in qgis by x = geom.asPolygon() It rounds off the coordinate from i.e. -27,200,334.86 to -2.72003e+07 How can I avoid that?
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Is segment of polyline contained in polygon

I am pretty new to arcpy and am slowly learning all its functions. I have a scenario where I am traversing a polyline. I get a start point and an end point on the polyline and form a segment with ...
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Suggestions for vector format for polygons

I am using two polygon tables in postgis (A and B ). I need to make a vector file that incorporates information of the overlapped polygons B intersecting each polygon on (A). I can make a single ...
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When digitizing, objects are not saved well

I've some problems with digitizing. If I draw a line or a polygon, the line or polygon is saved in the attribute list, but not visible and its location is not saved either (when I zoom to the object ...
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Calculate polygon area inside extent

We're using ArcMap 10.0 sp5, creating a tool in c# using the ArcObjects sdk. Is there a built in function or simple set of steps that calculates the area of each feature of a polygon layer within a ...
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Add regular points to each polygon in QGIS [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: assign and move centroids to their polygons I'm trying to find out a method to define a unique ID based on specific coordinates for each polygon of a shp. The problem is ...

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