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How can I make a polyline wrap around the world?

I am using leaflet maps to create a representation of a round-the-world challenge. I would like to add a polyline which heads east from tokyo and then appears west of south america on the map - but ...
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Connecting line features and determining the length of the longest line

I have a line feature (see image) representing a river that I created using the Stream_to_Feature tool. The attribute table contains several records representing different lines - the problem is the ...
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Why is my polyline on the wrong bearing?

I am trying to overlay duplicate segments of polylines on a map via javascript. I am using latlon.js and geo.js from here The idea is that a user can input the distance they have travelled and when ...
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How to find the distance of a point along a polyline?

We need to find the distance of a series of point along a given polyline. We have a polyline dataset repsenting rivers in a catchment, broken up into river reaches (FID 1 through 35 for example). We ...
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Mapinfo incorrect polyline (boundary) map to region conversion

How to solve issue regarding incorrect boundary to region conversion? I have boundary map plotted on cosmetic layer when I convert it to region it results in line with overlap to other region. The two ...
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How to create one-sided buffers or parallel lines in PostGIS?

I'm looking for a way to create so-called one-sided buffers or parallel lines in PostGIS. Example: 1. buffer, 2. one-side, 3. both-sides I've found some discussion on the mailing list from 2009 and ...
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How to create arcs between two points in Python?

I've been working on an python script automating the visualization of live point data. I have a table with two coordinate pairs. I'd like to connect these two point with an arc of a circle or similar ...
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Merge overlapping lines in ArcGIS

I have a polyline shapefile containing a number of lines, some of which overlap. By overlap, I mean that they follow exactly the same path for some of their route, but also have bits that are not ...
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Connecting markers by following the roads in Google Maps

I have many markers in a kml file. All the markers are on the roads. I wonder if there is a way to process the data and connect the markers by following the road? Of course, the markers should not be ...
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What tools in Python are available for doing great circle distance + line creation?

I need to use Python to create a great circle distance -- both a number, and preferably some kind of 'curve' that I can use to draw in a client-side map. I don't care about the format of the curve -- ...
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Deriving separate polylines from coded points using ArcObjects (Figure inside)

I have a single point featureclass that represents the left and right sides of a landform (the points are coded as either 'right' or 'left'). Visually I can pick out and digitize two lines along these ...
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ArcGIS 10's Editor and Snapping toolbars question (snapping polyline to another polyline)

Have attempted this about 20 different ways using Editor / Snapping Toolbars and ET GeoWizards but still cannot find solution. Screen shot is attached. Need to snap the green polyline to the red ...
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How to determine a point lays within a polyline in arc engine?

I recently asked a similiar question on this, however I needed to know if there is a way to solve this if I only have a IPolyline Feature, and not the whole layer. I want to know if I can determine ...
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How can I create a parallel lines in a MULTILINESTRING table using Postgis? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to create one-sided buffers or parallel lines in PostGIS? I need to make parallel lines on a MULTILINESTRING table, similar to st_buffer, but that the result come be ...
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Openlayers Add features performance for 3000 lines

We would like to implement the function of Addfeature in openlayers to draw lines and push them onto a vector layer, and overlay this layer onto open street map or google map. Those lines are draw ...
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Get part of polyline based on 2 points in Arc Engine

Currently I have a layer with polylines; in another layer, I allowed the user to create 2 points on the polyline. I want to know if there is a function for the polyline feature that I can use to get ...
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How to connect points with a polyline in ArcMap 10?

I have a layer containing a few hundred points representing a survey track. The points are laid out in chronological order in the corresponding attribute table. How can I have ArcMap 10 automatically ...
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Creating dynamic links between features

I currently want to create links between 2 features. Ie., I have 2 basins that flow out and I want to use a line/polyline to have a link out of them and both point to a common 3rd feature, indicating ...
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Convert Shape Polyline-M to Polyline

I have some pretty old software that I am forced to use (no option). It's old enough that it doesn't recognize shape files of type Polyline-M, it only recognizes shape files of Polyline. I have a ...
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ArcEngine 10 Polyline with arrow

I was wondering if there is a way to draw a polyline but with an arrow head at the end point? Thanks all IPolyline line = new PolylineClass(); ...
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Is there a way to make a straight line in ArcEngine 10 (Polyline but with ONLY start and end)

So I want to allow the user to create a connection between 2 polygons on my map. So it doesn't make sense to allow them to draw polyline with multi points. My question is, is there a way I can do ...
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Scriptable alternative to ArcScan (particularly vectorising lines within tolerances)

Sadly the answer to this question suggests that it is not possible to script ArcScan from within a python script. Therefore, does anyone know of any alternatives to ArcScan (either within ArcGIS, or ...
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Joining lines when direction is not known

I am struggling with this problem. I have a polyline made up of several segments. Each segment is made up of points, each point identified in 3D space by coordinates and elevation. Together, if ...
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Draw lines from points

Please any body help me for creating lines from points in electric network for instance electric poles are there in point feature with "polename" field like "P01", "P02", "P03" etc. I need a tool that ...
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How can I get my GPS track data into a graphics program?

I'm using a Garmin Edge 705 bike GPS/computer unit, which produces .gpx files. I can use the standard software it comes with to plot on Google Maps etc, but I'd like to be able to output just a vector ...
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script for automated line drawing procedure for set of start and end points

A colleague conducted a field survey and recorded the start and end points of the transects with a GPS. These points have been imported to ArcMap 9.3 as 2 point layers. Both layers have a "transect ...
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Convert Landmask file into WKT Polygon

I have a land mask file in netCDF (also in ascii, if needed) which basically consists of a lat/long pair and a boolean (1 or 0) determining if that value is over land or not. The thing is, I'm not ...
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How to sensibly digitise this raster, scriptably, in ArcGIS

I have the raster below which I want to convert to a set of vector lines: As you can see, there are small breaks in the lines and some bits are double-width. I want to be able to reliably import ...
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ArcGIS: How to create a line with a specific length?

How can I create a line in ArcGIS 9.3 to a specific length? I click once to start the line where I want it, and then I want it to be, say 10 Meters in length...Similar to AutoCAD. How do I do this? ...
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How can a single line be computed from multiple possibilities

I have datasets containing continuous GPS streams of data that represent routes or trails. For any given route, I probably have at least 5 (in some cases many more) different sets of data. Given that ...
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Find tunnel 'center line'?

I have some map files consisting of 'polylines' (each line is just a list of vertices) representing tunnels, and I want to try and find the tunnel 'center line' (shown, roughly, in red below). I've ...
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ArcGIS: Create a line layer from a point layer and csv data file

UPDATED DECEMBER 20 I have a Regular point layer and a csv file that has the same ids as the point layer. The csv file is organized as ID From To Weight -- ---- -- ------ 01 ...

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