I am working in ArcGIS and I have an urban center boundary, generated by a population-grid dataset. However, I want to fill in the gaps inside the urban center boundary (see the image below areas marked with red).
Any ideas to do this task?
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Create a copy of your features, apply following field calculator expression on field Shape, using Python parser:
def outRing(shp):
part=shp.getPart(0)
pgon=arcpy.Polygon(part)
return pgon
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outRing( !Shape!)
When working on shapefile, no need to switch editing on.
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Seems there's a similar question here : gis.stackexchange.com/questions/66049/… but it didn't find an answer like @FelixIP's. That seems a nice piece of coding :) – gisnside Oct 16 '16 at 19:17
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Although @FelixIP's code didn't work (i used the code version with !shape!), I solved the problem by using the feature to polygon tool. – Alex Bartzokas Oct 17 '16 at 0:37
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@FelixIP, I think it will patch the right hand side one but not the other. – fatih_dur Oct 17 '16 at 2:24
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@AlexBartzokas, do you mind sharing how you did resolve this issue by using Feature to Polygon? – fatih_dur Oct 17 '16 at 2:25
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1@fatih_dur agree, because left hand polygon is very special case of "donut" that is not the donut in my opinion. Feature to polygon, yeah right – FelixIP Oct 17 '16 at 2:32
