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How to transform FileGDB featureclasses from custom local coordinate system?

Background: Started working for company that is in middle of system-wide IT upgrade including GIS data. Existing in-house data is in a FileGDB, is in an assumed coordinate system and represents 1000 ...
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Ok to measure and union a projected-on-the-fly shapefile in ArcMap?

I have a dataframe in arcMap 10.0.4 that is of Africa Albers Equal Area Conic PCS. I bring in a census shapefile of WGS 1984 CS and it is projected on the fly. I do 2 things: I use the calculate ...
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Geographic Coordinate System to Projected Coordinate System

I am trying to convert a shapefile from GCS to PCS to calculate the area of each polygon. I have tried two different methods: 1) "Data Management Tools->Projections and Transformations->Define ...
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How to Convert Long/Lat from Excel into shapefile? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I convert an excel file with x, y columns to a shapefile? Possible duplicate, How can I convert an excel file with x, y columns to a shapefile? How do I ...
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How to convert coordinates from meters to decimal degrees?

I have a shape file. The coordinates (Lat/Long) are projected as meter (555000, 155000). But, I want to re-project it to decimal degrees(51.523666, -0.07467). How can I do it with ArcMap or Quantum ...
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Layers having the same coordinate system should overlap, but they don't. What's wrong?

I put 4 different layers into my ArcMap document, but only one of them will show up on the map! I should be seeing the other 3 layers as well. When I do a Zoom to layer, I can see one layer, but I ...
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How to efficiently project datasets of varying coordinate systems into one coordinate system?

I am working on streamlining data processing at my organization. Currently we are using various large-scale Models that we will gradually bring into Python. The gist of our data processing is as ...
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Reproject TM65 to OSGB in ArcGIS

I have a TIFF file in the TM65 (Transverse Mercator) projection, and want to convert it to the OSGB (British National Grid) projection. I'm trying to do this in ArcGIS using the Project Raster tool. ...
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Problem reprojecting annotation in ArcGIS 10

I have a large annotation feature class that I want to reproject from decimal degrees to a specific iteration of Albers. Using the Project tool, it appears to work, all annotation features are ...
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How to unproject a shapefile in Python?

I have one shapefile with XY coordinates in meters. Now, I want to develop one script in Python which converts meters to decimal degrees. Please help me to develop this. Thanks
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I'm having trouble with getting a shapefile in the right projection. What am I doing wrong?

I have an older map that I didn't create. I'm just trying to get everything to line up on it, and having a hard time. The data frame is in NAD_1927_UTM_Zone_12N, as are the point shapefiles (derived ...
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ArcGIS/ArcPy Python, how to get latitude and longitude of a projected point?

I have a point feature in a feature class that is being accessed by ArcPy. The point is projected but I need to find an efficient means to get the unprojected latitude and longitude for this point. ...
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How to set a map's extent to the envelope in miles

I want to set extent of the map into envelope which sizes are defined by user in miles(kilometers, whatever human readable unit). How to make it? I wrote the following code: static void ...