Hot answers tagged interoperability
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I'll talk only about what i've seen in a professional context. A student of mine worked with an enterprise tasked to receive, validate and integrate huge quantities of spatial data, from a well known source (TeleAtlas) into their GIS. She used several workflows using FME, doing very complicated verifications and tranformations on the fly, from a format to ...
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For a recent project working with several GBs of spatial data, I started the data loading / reprojections with FME. It worked well, but there is a learning curve.
By the end of the project I was using Python scripts to automate the reamining processes. FME can be scripted, but if you have the Python basics why complicate things further? Python gives you ...
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You can try these options:
Use pstoedit to export PDF to DXF and later import it to GIS software. pstoedit translates PostScript and PDF graphics into other vector formats. SVG is also supported by means of a plugin.
Use a tool like CorelDraw which can read SVG format and export the file to DXF.
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Greetings,
FME posted a beta for an online tool that handles many different types of conversion, including this. http://fmeserver.com/userweb/sharper/Portal/EasyTranslator/index.html
This converter should really help you. Good luck.
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One more commercial product that bears mentioning is Global Mapper. This falls in the category of view, convert, re-project almost any geographic data you can imagine. I use the free version heavily in a class I teach and almost everyone walks away commenting on how this is the swiss army knife of GIS tools (though the free version doesn't do translations, ...
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Couple more options in addition to the other answers...
SL-King's fdo2fdo application, which uses the open source FDO libraries, allows you to perform KML to SHP and visa versa translations. It includes both a GUI (which express format-to-format translations and more customized schema mapping translations) as well as a commandline tool.
For properietary ...
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You cannot administer ArcGIS Server 10 using an older version of ArcGIS Desktop. See the Migrating to 10 page in the help.
Also, if you upgrade any ArcSDE installations to ArcSDE 10, those servers will not support older desktop clients. See the Product Compatibility Matrix for ArcSDE.
However, consuming services between versions is generally supported. ...
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a) Yes, I am doing that and you can view and zoom/pan etc (anything 9.3.1 allows a user to do).
b) No, You may only connect to the 10 server as a user, you may not manage except from a computer with version 10 of desktop installed. You may manage a 9.3.1 server from a desktop with version 10. I'm doing that.
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I am using ST_relate_summary function, acting as the requested ST_Relate_readable(), that I posted into code.google as simple a SQL/PostGIS code. It is not from a standard library, neither a systematically tested or optimized one.
Thanks to Mike about JTS Topology Suite: JTS offers a (very good!) graphical interface, reporting spatial predicates... I need ...
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You can also look at FME from Safe Software http://www.safe.com
There is a 14 day trial available. FME lets you even map the attributes from your KML file to ESRI SHP format during the data conversion/migration process besides the ability to filter the KML point files based on certain attributes or spatial extents.
There is also the option to do batch ...
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In Idrisi (Kilimanjaro, Andes, Taiga or Selva versions) look for function "Idrisi file convertion 16/32" in FILE menu.
This convert your old vector file format (.vec) to new version format (.vct). Then in idrisi export to SHAPEFILE. or open your new idrisi vector file in ARCGIS, then convert to CAD.
Method 2
Other method (i am not sure for all), but try ...
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If you can upgrade your version of Data Interop then you will find that there is now direct SketchUp support included. That would at least eliminate the export to KML step.
Also the 3D support with this extension is improving all the time, so upgrading may eliminate the other issues you are experiencing. The way to test would be to install the evaluation ...
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To use spatial data published as a KML or KMZ file in ArcGIS you must first convert the KML to a feature class (shapefile). The University of Connecticut has a published a script for creating shapefiles from KML called KML_to_Shp.tbx. It works quite well and you can use it from ArcToolbox. Because KML will (should) always be in geographic coordinates ...
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ET GeoWizards also has an import from Google Earth option, which will convert KML or KMZ files to feature class. > http://www.ian-ko.com/ET_GeoWizards/gw_MainFeatures.htm
If you're looking for an open source option, I see MapWindow was just updated, and there are a couple of plugins for converting to and from KML and shapefile.
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If you have the interop extension just load that KML straight into ArcMap and export to shp.
Although the opposite answer to your Q, in case someone has come here to do the vice versa, I find this script perfect to go from SHP-->KML
http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=14273
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After some tries, this is the way I found for models which I built. I started the models still with the SU plugin in ArcGIS9.3, which means they have a proper Georeference AttributeDictionary. Now, how to place them in ArcGIS10:
Export a file, let's call it "Model.DAE", (Collada DAE, not SKP version 6) from SU8. In ArcCatalog10, create a new FeatureSet in ...
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SuperMap can convert Idrisi .vec to shapefiles.
Look at the the table called
"Table 3 Supported Dataset Types When Exporting Them into Outside Vector Data Formats."
SuperMap Deskpro Professional and All-in-one Desktop GIS is required.
A 60 Day Trial license is available.
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Yes, in GetCapabilities and DescribeFeatureType as stated in the GML Simple Feature profile documentation:
GetCapabilities:
The following XML fragment shows how a WFS may advertise in its
capabilities document that it can generate schemas that comply with
this profile:
1. <ows:Operation name="DescribeFeatureType">
2. <ows:DCP>
3. ...
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I use several methods.
First pdf can be vector or image format. That depends on the software that created it and options used.
If it is image format I use irfanview with the full plugins which support pdf reading.Save it to tif and then in raster design (autodesk) I geo-reference it and save out as geo-tiff.
Then it will work as georeferenced in any of my ...
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I would use ArcPy with ListFields to iterate through your three hundred fields and run Summary Statistics, with a SearchCursor used to open each of the 300 tables thus created and read the sum value.
Note: This answer is in response to the original question (which is now the first of three). If three questions are being asked then I think each should become ...
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MapMaker Pro will export
Excel spreadsheet
As with DBF files you can import an Excel spreadsheet if it has columns for the coordinates.
Note to import Access or Excel data you need Microsoft ADO, ADOX, and Jet Engine
4.0 installed.
Export files
Remember that in Map Maker information on the appearance of styles is not stored in
the vector file but is ...
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Here's a post from the ESRI forums. It suggests that you can consume services in 9.3.1, but you will not be able to create an administrative connection to the server.
http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/16471-Can-ArcMap-9.3.1-consume-ArcGIS-Server-10-map-services-map-service-version-numbers
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Data Interoperability Extension 10 Service Pack 1- fixes this issue
http://resources.arcgis.com/content/patches-and-service-packs?fa=viewPatch&PID=83&MetaID=1721
NIM058671 - Cannot specify Output Dataset for the Quick Export tool when it is in a model.
NIM058766 - Cannot specify Input Dataset for the Quick Import tool when it is in a model.
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After fighting with it for a couple of days, I have found this:
You can export a v6 SKP directly to
Multipatch, using the
InterOperability Extension.
You can export a v6 SKP directly to
Multipatch, using the 'Import 3D
Files'Tool from the 3D Analysis
Toolbox.
The Main Issue then is, is that these Multipatches do not fall at the correct Place. On digging ...
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Some good tips in ArcUser January - March 2007
"Urban Modeling with ArcGIS 3D Analyst and SketchUp"
http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0207/urban.html
I have use Sketchup and have used PhotoShop CS Extended for very large
Collada DAE/KMZ files. (Still some issues)
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