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Is there a “Select by Attributes” plugin/widget for ArcGIS Server JS API?

I'm hoping to find some existing code which emulates the "Select by Attributes" dialog in ArcMap, within the ArcGIS Server JavaScript API. Writing a hard-coded QueryTask is easy - I'm looking for ...
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Idiots guide to expressions for QGIS

I have no formal training in GIS and have learned on the fly with ArcGIS 9.3 at work and have been dabbling with QGIS on my own time for my business. Is there any resource recommendations ingeneral ...
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Nearest Neighbor Grouped Selection in QGIS

OK - so I have an interesting problem I am trying to solve. I have a list containing over 100,000 points in lat/long format which I have imported into qgis. Now, what I am trying to do here is group ...
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Are personal geodatabases better suited for quickly querying indexed attributes than file geodatabases?

I'm preparing data for an ArcEngine application that queries the data to search for an address. Sometimes we search just on the street name field, just on the house number field, or both. When using ...
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How to speed up queries for raster databases?

I have a raster database in postgresql/postgis with these columns: (ID, rast, data_of_data). 'rast' is the column that has raster files in WKT format. An example query to find the DN value of a ...
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How to identify duplicate attributes in a field?

I have a point shapefile with thousand of points. It has an ID code field that supposed to be unique. Every now and then the data entry clerk wrongly type the id creating duplicates.Right now I'm ...
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ST_ClosestPoint(line, point) does not intersect line

In my PostGIS database (PostGIS 1.5 on Postgres 8.4.1), I have two tables: roads (composed of linestrings) and crashes (composed of points). I've been trying to correlate each crash to a road, but I'm ...
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How to query all records (>1000) and export to csv?

I posted in arcgis forum but never got any answer. Can anyone tell me how to solve this? Assume you have a vehicle tracking records from Oct.1 to Dec. 31 with wind speed information. All data is ...
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How to run a spatial query with a raster and vector layer in QGIS?

I have a soil map (vector-polygon layer) and a map of the crops farmed in the same area (raster layer, from the US Cropland Data Layer). I would like to calculate for a given soil type, the surface ...
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How to select only Spatial tables from the postgres database?

My database contains both Spatial and Non-Spatial tables, but I want to retrieve only Spatial table from the query. Any suggestions to select only Spatial tables. 'the_geom' is the geometry column in ...
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What would be 'normal' processing time for a large postgis query

I have two datasets which I want to spatially join (with an intersect). The first dataset consists of 9 million addresses. The second dataset consists of 12.000 neighbourhoods. I want the add the ...
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How to sum area of polygons by values occuring in multiple fields?

My data has 2 fields holding landuse types, which both describe what is within the polygon. For example, the polygon may have Type1=Retail, Type2=Leisure Area= 1 but another polygon has Type1=Leisure, ...
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Need to learn more about Precision and Accuracy

I am currently taking Introduction to Image Interpretation online and there is a section in it that talks about Precision and Accuracy. I wanted to know if someone out there has any good information ...
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PostgreSql query problem with aggregate functions

I need help with a PostgreSql query. I need to find all parcels which have bigger area then average. I'm using this query: SELECT OBJECTID FROM parcela WHERE ST_Area(geom)<(SELECT ...
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How to select features with NULL attributes in QGIS?

I need to identify which features have null attributes in the attribute table of a shapefile. When i try [field]= 'NULL' it selects the features with value=0 (see picture) Suggestions?
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Query a georss feed

I'm trying to consume a georss feed from a C# project. Can I have queries against a #georss feed? For example 'nearest item to Lon/Lat' or 'items contained in bounding box X' .? Thanks
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How do I use QGIS python console to iterate through simple layer queries and png outputs?

I'm really new to QGIS coding and I'm having a hard time finding (especially) the api classes/functions to carry out actions of the Query Builder window. I'm basically trying to do this: Iterate ...
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How to run custom queries on vector layers and display results?

Is there a way to display the result of a query in QGIS? For instance : To get the total number of inhabitants : SELECT SUM( inhabitants ) FROM countries To get the total density : SELECT ...
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Practical way of managing polygons and unions of them

I have a table in PostGIS with a quite fine partition of a region, which I'd like to dissolve at two higher levels by means of two foreign keys (e.g. municipality and state). The partition is a real ...
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Spatial query of raster data

I have population distribution data as a raster layer and exposure contours as vector (polygon) layers. What I'd like to do is use the vector layer to estimate the population indicated from the raster ...
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Improve database performance for geospatial

I have a database with osm data imported with osmosis tool. I want to search for the nearest POIs from a given point. For this purpose, I perform this query: select id from nodes where ...
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How can i search over my layers with openlayers?

i have my map running over geoserver and openlayers. but i want to add a search box to find places in it. Well not specifically places but directions. The map reads the layers directly over geoserver ...
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Querying Data with a 1-Many Relationship Class

I have created a relationship class similar to the one I posted about in this question. Essentially, there is a point feature class representing a location of vegetation clearing with attributes ...
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How to join two tables using date, time, lat and lon as common field?

I am sorry if the question is elementary but I did not find any clear discussion or guide to understand how to run a query in postgresql. So that a pointer to another website would be also useful. ...
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How to speed up an st_intersects() query?

I have a "huge" spatial database: 72GB, 200 millions documents with geometries (points) I have a GIST index on the geometries the database: CREATE TABLE resources ( id bigint NOT NULL, accuracy ...
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ArcObjects ISQLSyntax with Oracle DB esriSQL_DelimitedIdentifierPrefix issue

New to stack exchange, heading over from the esri forums, it is great! I am trying to produce a query that I can use across all workspaces, naturally using ISQLSyntax. The problem I'm having is that ...
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Why is my Definition Query not returning any records?

I am currently working on a mapping project and only need 8 tenements out of many to appear. I have gone into the query builder to complete this and unfortunately it will not work. Into the builder a ...
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How do I perform a proximity search with Postgis?

OK, so I downloaded the Geonames database (cities1000) and wrote a small Ruby program to import them into my table (geo_cities). I then added geography column called geog. So after all of that, I ...
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How to join Shapefile and Excel data without unique ID column?

I have one huge shapefile with lots of roads (polylines) along with various attributes and I have an Excel file containing some of these roads by three same attributes (road no., section no., length) ...
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Selecting MAX values within records with the same name

I'm working in ArcMap 9.3 and I've never dealt with that kind of queries... I need to Select the MAX value from column [A] for each set of records in the table which have the same value in column [B] ...
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How to fix performance problem in PostGIS ST_Intersects?

I'm a newbie in postgis and I have a problem in query performance. This my query: SELECT DISTINCT ON (userid) userid ,ST_AsText(position), timestamp FROM table1 WHERE ST_Intersects ( ...
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What is the best approach to using IQueryFilter.WhereClause in ArcObjects?

What is your preferred / best approach to using IQueryFilter.WhereClause statements in ArcObjects (e.g. when selecting features by attributes)? You need to check the source type (shapefile / personal ...
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Multiple queries in a row

I have osm data imported into PostgreSQL with osm2po tool (wich makes the data routable). Also I have imported data relationed with nodes and node_tags with osmosis tool. I need to obtain a set of ...
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How to query for a specific point, within a specific polygon?

I have a shapefile points layer, with each point representing either Marginal, suboptimal, or optimal conditions. I want to find only the marginal points within a specific polygon from my catchments ...
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How to Find points in a Kilometre radius

I am new to PostGIS and GeoData. I need to find where the lightning has stroke by a period of time and kilometre radius based on a given location. I have given lon/lat and my table is: latitude ...
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Using Google Earth to query database

I've been reading about using Google Earth to query data (this article) and I'm interested in learning how to make one of these. I just have a couple of questions: 1. Is this possible with the free ...
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Filter contour lines in QGIS

I have a shapefile of contour lines, with an ALTITUDE attribute with the height ASL in metres. The source data is in 0.5m intervals, but I'd like to filter it down so I get contour lines at (for eg.) ...
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How can I more efficiently select related records?

Below is the code I'm using to replicate the "related tables" button in ArcMap. In ArcMap that button selects features in one feature class or table based on the selection of features in another ...
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How to filter layer of osm data?

I have a table osm_roads that has a column named geometry geometry geometry(LineString,900913). If I want to filter a city to draw districts, I cannot do it by geographic coordinates? What if in ...
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How to query against time

I have a date-time field in a feature class which I want to query. The field has values like "2011-01-01 00:00:29". I want to query the data between the time 00:06:00 and 00:12:00. The date does not ...
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How to find the nearest point by using PostGIS function?

table A: lat | long | the_geom | code | sign 13.8433095 | 100.6360357 | 0101000020E61.... | ABC | start_point 13.7544738 | 100.5459646 | 0101000020E6..... | ABC | end_point 13.4124215 | 100.6232332 ...
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How to filter features in a layer?

I am trying to display certain features in a shapefile-based layer using QGIS. I have found the subset function in the properties panel, which does exactly what i want, but is too tedious given that I ...
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Editing and Deleting Query Tables in ArcMap

How do I edit the query for a Query Table after it has been created? How do I permanently delete a Query Table? Even after I do right-click -> remove, it still appears in dropdown lists.
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Export query to identify what polygon certain points fall in

I'm using Arc GIS 10. I have shapefiles consisting of points (street addresses). I also have shapefiles consisting of polygons (ie, congressional districts, city council districts, etc... a separate ...
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How to get distinct values from multiple columns in GeoTools?

Is there a way to get distinct values from multiple columns in geotools? I know I can get unique values from a column like this: SimpleFeatureSource featureSource = ...
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How fill length and feature count in PostGIS table for each polygons

I'am new to PostGIS/PostgreSql. I have a database which containts two shape-files : polygonal layer towns and linear layer of roads To calculate the length and feature count of 'Streets' inside ...
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Creating a where clause from user input/Python list

I am trying to perform a query based on values in a Python list. The where clause will then be used in an Update Cursor, so that the rows NOT equal to the values in the list will be deleted. This is ...
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How to best execute the same query on many different vector layers?

I have some vector layers in my project and I need to separate the polygones by area (I need a copy of all shapes > 2ha). I know how to do this for each separate layer (query) but is the a tool to do ...
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Spatial index to speed up the query

I have spatial table in PostgreSQL 9.2 / postgis 2.0 that I have to extract some information from it. But my query is hopelessly slow. How could I make use of spatial index to improve the performance ...
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query raster in ArcGIS 10

I am using ArcGIS 10 (includes spatial and geostatistical analyst). I have a raster (GRID) with a value range of -167 to 18. I would like to query the raster and create a new one with only the values ...

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