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To select data records according to logical criteria applied to their field values ("attributes")

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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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Get list of coordinates for points in a layer?

I've got a layer in QGIS that is comprised of points. Its attribute table doesn't have the corresponding x y coordinates for each point. Is there a way for me to extract a list of coordinates for ...
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Arcmap Select by Attribute with Python

I would like the following to select (highlight) the "project" layer that intersects the grid, and then pull a record from the selected "Grid". I do not need to save the layer. Note: Running the ...
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selecting by attribute and specific value replace

I want to select all of the features by attribute where the attribue in myattrib is like... Selection "criteria H". That is not a problem. However then I need to replace (myattrib," H", "") except ...
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Breaking apart a polygon layer by unique values, creating many new layers

I have a large dataset of habitat information that I need to calculate distances from animal locations to the closest polygon of each habitat type. The way to do this, that I understand, would be to ...
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SELECT TOP query in ArcGIS

Is there a way to use a SELECT TOP (n) within ArcGIS desktop? Is appears that since the ArcGIS query builder is effectively building the SQL statement after the WHERE clause, that this may not be ...
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Select by Attributes query question

Greetings, Nice looking alternative to esri forums here at gis.stackexchange. I am trying to select multiple (50 or more) unique numeric records using ArcGIS 10's "Select by Attributes" using ...
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Select all “NULL” values in the attribute table?

I have a quite simple syntax question. I want to select ALL my null values in an attribute table of a feature class, not just the values in a single field. So the question would be: what is the ...
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ArcGIS 10 Field Calculator doesn't notice selection/Attribute Table problem?

I just have an annoying problem with the Field Calculator in ArcGIS 10. I selected specific points of a Shapefile I want to calculate, but FC is always calculating all fields. Unfortunately there is ...
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select by attribute on shapefiles with open-source python modules

I usually use ArcGis 9.3.1, but when running a python script that includes Select_by_attribute (from gp), the script runs very very slowly. Is there a way I can perform a select-by-attribute on a ...
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Setting defaults in the 'Select By Attribute' SQL editor

Is there a way to set default values in the 'Select By Attribute' SQL editor (the where clause) ? I want to set a permanent value that will appear every time I enter the 'Select by Attribute' window, ...
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Select by attribute

In my shapefile, I have a bunch of features and one field is a integer numerical attribute. I'd like to select all of the features whose value is a multiple of another value. For instance, I have a ...
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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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Filter by attribute to show only records with whole numbers

Is there a way to show points that only contain whole numbers in a column (eg. 009, 010, 011 and NOT 9,1; 9,2; 9,3...) in ArcGIS 10?
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How to select points within polygon constrained by field?

I've created a polygon from a raster dataset: arcpy.RasterToPolygon_conversion(RasterInt, "C:/arc/poly_int.shp", "NO_SIMPLIFY", "Value") The 'value' field has numbers 1-37, which map to the ID ...
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How to print selected features in QGIS?

I have a detailed map in qgis (vector, .shp) and I would like to split the map in four parts based on attributes to print each part of the map separately. Unfortunately, I didn't figure out how to do ...
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Is there a way to select what to import from planet-latest.osm.bz2 to database?

Is there a way to select what to import from planet-latest.osm.bz2 to database? I want to do something like : osm2pgsql ... --place='city' --admin_level='2' My goal is to use only cities and ...
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Make selected polygon a different color without covering everything

Working in ArcGIS 9.3 I'm selecting polygons by attributes and trying to have the selection show up as a light yellow. I set the selection color to the light yellow and it's the 'lowest/last' layer ...
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Select by Attributes (features sharing a common attribute value)

I am attempting to 'select by attributes' a point feature with the lowest numeric value which shares a common value with other point features in another field. For example: I may have 3 point features ...
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Use model builder to select layers by attributes, dissolve them and then merge them

StackExchange team, I would like to reclassify polygons, I want to combine smaller polygons into bigger polygons based on their ID (each polygon has a unique ID). I want to regroup ~800 polygons into ...
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How to select features by matching attributes of two SHPs?

I have one line shape file with lot of road sections and a point shapefile, some of these points are outside my area of interest. The files have one attribute in common and I would like to do ...
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Extract by Attribute Using ModelBuilder, With User Input

Using ModelBuilder, I want to create a tool that will let a user choose the value or values that will be used to extract a shapefile. I have a parcel layer with a "Parcel_Type" field. I want the user ...
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Selecting the most recent entries from a table in Arc

I have a point shape file that has many event occurances stored for ever point. I am trying to select the most recent event for every point. Is there a way to do this through the "Select by ...
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Automate Select by Location

I have 2 shape files (A and B) each with thousands of polygons. I want to select polygons from A which intersect a specific polygon from B, and save the selected polygons from A as a new shapefile. I ...
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Selecting multiple variables by Attribute from different target layers

I have a model with species point data as a source layer and a number of different shapefiles as target layers. To start I run a search by location tool to determine where the source and target layers ...
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How to give multiple colors to features within a single shapefile?

I want to give multiple colors to different features within a shapefile based on attribute values , is this possible in QGIS ? If yes what is the procedure ? Is there a way to provide color by means ...
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Using String Functions (LEFT, RIGHT, MID) in Select By Attributes against a File Geodatabase using ArcMap 10

I finally (albeit reluctantly) made the switch from a personal geodatabase (pGDB) to a file geodatabse (fGDB) not too long ago. The main reason it took so long to switch has to do with how Select by ...
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How can you auto-populate field using spatial location of another feature and its attributes?

I want to auto-populate a field based on the spatial location of another feature's attribute. Add a point on top of a building. The point automatically adds the name of the building. This seems like ...
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Model builder: select feature based on attribute, iterator?

This is the data I have: shapefile with polygons shapefile with line features What I eventually want: line features attributes joined to the polygons that they fall in. I need to clip each polygon ...
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Python Addins: Can I Select a polygon feature in ArcMap and pass that Selection into a python Addin?

I have a script that uses a arcpy's 'SelectByAttribute' syntax to choose a record in a polygon feature class. Following that, I do a 'SelectbyLocation' to select points from a feature class that lie ...
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Trying to use an integer in a WHERE clause

I'm trying to use an integer value in a WHERE clause (looking at an integer field). expression = "'SERVICE' = 'Service' " expression = expression + 'AND ' expression = expression + "'GPS_TIME_TOTAL' ...
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Select and zoom python script

I am attempting to make a simple select and zoom python script for my address points. Currently the script will complete successfully but will not select or zoom to the entered point. I am using two ...
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How do I select only those contours who heights are Integers?

I have a Contours Featureclass, with an interval of 0.2 Meters. I wish to select only those Contours, which are which are at 1 m Interval? I have tried using the following syntax in the 'Select by ...
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Create multiple tables from distinct attribute category values using Model Builder

I've got a shapefile I would like to extract distinct values from an attribute field and have the output as tables based on those values. The shapefile is made of polygons representing parcels and ...
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ARCObject query

I'm using ArcGIS 10.1 and developing an application using visual studio 2010 and ARCObject SDK 10.1. I would like to use identity tool in my application and if not possible I want to execute a query ...
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How to program select by attribute unique values using ArcGIS silverlight API?

I'd like to create a select by attribute window in my webGIS using silverlight api . this is like select by attribute in arcgis desktop . i create select layer combobox ( cbolayers)and select fields ...
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Select a distinct attribute with maximum shape area

I am trying to manipulate a large dataset containing a lot of sliver polygons resulting from an overlay operations. (The eliminate tool is very time consuming to generalize them.) I identified the ...
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How to select features where attribute is not NULL?

I have an OS AddressBase shape file. One of the attributes is 'paoText'. It is either a text string like 'Anchor House' or is NULL. I want to extract all the records where there is a text string ...
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Search By Location

Using Arcmap 9.3 I was curious if anybody has a script or vba tool that will select items from a layer that are not within a selected polygon or not touching the selected polygon. Thanks for your ...
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Making multiple separate selections from attributes

I am using ArcGIS 10 with ArcEditor license. I have a 10 year composite of month-to-month temperature values for 17 weather stations. That makes 120 months. I have to select each and every month ...
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Python Script for Select by Attributes taking user input

I am trying to write a python script and create a script tool in ArcGIS that will let a user choose the value or values that will be used to extract a shapefile. These selected value(s) will then need ...
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Select By Attribute using geoprocessing without using layers?

I am selecting features based on attributes within an ArcGIS Add-In. The selections are pretty simple(e.g. "DESCRIPTION = left"). Is there a tool or method of doing this that doesn't require passing ...
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spatial join by attribute match from shapefile

i require to spatial join the shapefile having attribute by ie selecting by attribute which remains same for the target and join feature and get the output as per attribute selected i want to prepare ...
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select by location with matching attribute

I have a whole bunch of overlapping polygons (buffers), i want to select with points only those poly's which a) the point falls within, and b) the poly attribute matches the point attribute What ...
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ArcGIS: Summarised Inside Join with Attribute Criteria

I have a situation in which I need to find how many points lie within a polygon, this would be quite simple with a summarized inside join from points to polygons except for the fact that the points ...
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Can I write a query in MapInfo to select points within a certain distance of each other?

Example: I have 400 points. I want to make 4 different groups (roughly 100 points each) and I want the groups to contain the points that are closest, spatially, to one another.
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Python: 'Select by Attribute' in ArcMap 10

I would like to get the search the field value 'SURFACE LOCATION%' in column 'RefName' in layer '*.dwg Annotation' This is what I have so far... # Find the Dataframe df = ...