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May
14
comment Joining Tables, points and polygons ArcGIS
Are you using a near full personal geodatabase (~2GB)? Do you have adequate disk space?
May
3
comment Identify points near roadside in QGIS
Sounds like you need to decide how far from the road you will consider "along" it. Then run a buffer on your road feature and select points using that. Both functions are found under the vector menu, under Geoprocessing Tools and Research Tools, respectively.
May
2
awarded  Popular Question
Mar
9
comment Select top 5 most items in a geodatabase
I thought you were using a personal geodatabase from the start?
Mar
9
comment Data Driven Pages and exporting PDF using Python
which error are you getting?
Mar
9
answered Select top 5 most items in a geodatabase
Mar
7
answered Total of attribute field of point layer per polygon layer
Mar
3
comment repeating records in attribute table
You say "I can't seem to get the attribute table to accurately reflect the records"--does that mean you have a non-spatial version of the data file to compare against? Does that have an object ID carried over to the shapefile?
Feb
18
comment How to convert jpg file to shapefile?
Is this a one-off, or do you need to digitize many maps? There are really no short cuts here; these things tend to require lots of hand holding and judgment, especially if topology matters.
Feb
18
comment Create multiple shapefiles from one table
Have you tried this one? resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/geoprocessing/…
Feb
18
comment Create multiple shapefiles from one table
Interesting. 4000 records doesn't sound like a lot to me. Depending on how many times you need to do this (one off? frequently?), and how many unique combinations you will have of col1, col2, col3, you may want to split the table before importing/displaying in arcmap.
Feb
18
comment Create multiple shapefiles from one table
Do you use a database software? That appears to be the easiest option. Then concatenate col1, col2, col3 into a new field and select based on unique values of the resulting variable. Or you could perform the concatenation in ArcMap's field calculator and presumably feed that to the Fox Tools (haven't used it, but it seems your problem was having your criteria in three columns.)
Jan
11
awarded  Yearling
Oct
21
comment How to crop Shapefiles in QGIS?
Are you saying you are clipping a line (road) layer with a polygon layer? And are you after just ONE polygon area for your output, or multiple?
Oct
21
answered How to crop Shapefiles in QGIS?
Oct
13
revised Can I Combine Areas in Quantum GIS?
fixed error
Oct
13
comment Can I Combine Areas in Quantum GIS?
Thanks for the clarification. I was not entirely sure whether that was "batteries included".
Oct
13
answered Analyse spatial data and extract results in tabular form in QGIS
Oct
13
answered Can I Combine Areas in Quantum GIS?
Jul
30
comment how does a personal-gdb work from a MS Access perspective?
I have been recklessly working with attribute data of key GIS files using MS Access, finding it much easier to work with for basic updating and reporting than ArcMap. Just don't mess with the GDB-prefixed tables which are automatically maintained by ArcMap.