Timeline for ArcGIS - Custom, rule-based borders for polygons?
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| Apr 11, 2014 at 7:53 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 7, 2014 at 6:51 | comment | added | PolyGeo♦ | I am curious as to whether you were able to get this to work. If so, are you able to write it up as an Answer? If not, and you need more help, are you able to edit your Question to revise it with your learnings so far? | |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 9:22 | comment | added | PolyGeo♦ | I think the difficult to do part of this Question is to draw only part of your polygon boundary using the green dashed symbol. If it were just about dissolving out internal boundaries of adjacent polygons with a common field value then it would be much easier. You may want to try this one on Ask A Cartographer but that site is currently being upgraded. I suspect an Advanced license and the Polygon To Line tool would help here. | |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 0:48 | history | edited | bertday | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 14, 2013 at 0:11 | comment | added | bertday | @evv_gis I'm looking into Symbol Levels, this might a good workaround. The only problem is I can't get the Join checkbox to appear... I'll keep trying. | |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 0:10 | comment | added | bertday | @Conor, the polygons are adjacent but don't generally overlap. I'm not very familiar with ArcObjects but what does it entail? | |
| Nov 13, 2013 at 23:57 | comment | added | Conor | OP, is your data such that your polygons will always exactly overlap where you would like to draw your dashed lines? I have looked into this further and there are possible ArcObjects solutions (not ArcPy) if this is the case. | |
| Nov 13, 2013 at 22:54 | comment | added | evv_gis | @mattwilkie and PolyGeo - In most cases, I would provide a step-by-step process for answering the problem. However, since Esri went ahead and did that, I honestly thought just providing the link would suffice. I could have been more descriptive in the hyperlink; rather than saying "Symbol Levels", I could have said "Step-by-step process for dissolving polygon boundaries using symbol level drawing in ArcGIS". I do see where that would have been a more legitiment response. I will keep that in mind for further responses. | |
| Nov 13, 2013 at 22:47 | history | edited | PolyGeo♦ |
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| Nov 13, 2013 at 22:46 | comment | added | PolyGeo♦ | @evv_gis If you described the steps that Mapbert could use to meet his requirement using Symbol Levels then that would be an Answer that I would vote for. In general, when I see a question mark in an Answer, my first thought is "Shouldn't this be a Question or a Comment?". I've used Symbol Levels a bit and am keen to be shown that they provide a viable solution to the requirement described in this Question. | |
| Nov 13, 2013 at 22:44 | comment | added | matt wilkie | @ew_gis, I converted your answer to a comment because as it stood it was a link-only answer, which are generally not very useful in the long term. Your further comment, beginning to describe how one might prepare data to usefully use Symbol Levels for the OP's use-case begins to change that. I encourage you to flesh out the idea. | |
| Nov 13, 2013 at 22:40 | comment | added | matt wilkie | related: arcgis - How to hide "internal" polygon boundaries? | |
| Nov 13, 2013 at 22:35 | comment | added | evv_gis | @PolyGeo - While I agree that Symbol Levels are looked over quite too often, in regards to the question above, this is perhaps the most efficient solution if you are only wanting to edit the symbology. If you rather have a separate file (which Mapbert clearly states can be tedious to keep up), then simply Dissolving the data will produce a polygon feature class that can be styled to meet such criteria. My response provides an answer to, "does anyone have any insights?", and therefore IMO is an answer. | |
| Nov 13, 2013 at 22:16 | comment | added | PolyGeo♦ | I think this would be fine as a Comment rather than as an Answer. Symbol Levels are often overlooked and worth investigating although I don't think they will be useful in meeting this requiremet. | |
| Nov 13, 2013 at 21:43 | comment | added | evv_gis | Have you looked into Symbol Levels? No coding required. | |
| Nov 13, 2013 at 20:03 | history | edited | PolyGeo♦ |
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| Nov 13, 2013 at 19:12 | comment | added | bertday | I've used ArcPy quite a bit, is there a solution there? | |
| Nov 13, 2013 at 18:49 | comment | added | Conor | Are you knowledgeable in ArcPy or ArcObjects? | |
| Nov 13, 2013 at 17:47 | history | asked | bertday | CC BY-SA 3.0 |