Questions tagged [field-mapping]
The relationship between from fields and to fields when performing append, merge or similar operations indicating how fields will be populated in the result dataset.
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Are feature ids in QGIS and ArcMap stored differently?
I have a shapefile that I use as a layer in ArcMap. Opening the attribute table, shows a fid starting with 0 for the features. If I attach the same shapefile in QGIS and open the attribute table, the ...
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Understanding and using fieldmapping with ArcPy?
I'm having trouble trying to understand how fieldmapping works in ArcPy (I'm kinda new to Python). In the below example, I want to take a shapefile and append it to a feature class. But I want to use ...
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Append Tool Changing Field Data Types
When running the append tool to update a feature class in a file geodatabase, the tool seems to be changing field types of my preexisting data.
I have a file geodatabase with a preexisting layer that ...
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Fieldmapping for mean and max using arcpy
I'm trying to spatial join two features. One polygon layer and one point layer. The point layer contains one field of values that I want the Mean and Min of. Im trying to use the fieldmaper object to ...
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Creating Field Mapping Parameter in Arcpy Script
I'm trying to create a tool that compares two data sets. I do not want the Feature Compare tool. Most of the field names in the two data sets are the same, but not all. I want a way to map one field ...
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Using ArcPy FieldMappings?
This is a follow up to Output field name not showing up in spatial join result in which I received no response.
I am trying to convert a shapefile to a feature class, I also have a GeoJSON file with ...
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Calculating field after arcpy.Append_management()?
I have some AutoCAD layers (f.e. Cad1, Cad2) and I want to export them into feature class in a geodatabase (f.e. feature_class). Also I want to calculate field in "feature_class" for objects from CAD.
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MultiValue Selection with MultiValue Input
I made this Python Toolbox as a practice run for a larger project I want to do as I am new to python toolboxes. While this was successful I am not able to the result that I want.
I want to be able to ...
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Merging on specific fields
Lets say I have three shapefiles/features I want to merge: 'florida.shp', 'mississipi.shp' and 'louisiana.shp'. They all have 3 standard fields common to all: 'DFIRMID', 'SFX', and 'FIRMPAN'. I want ...
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Field mappings remove field from arcpyTable to Table conversion
I want to export a table but would like to remove one of the fields before doing so using arcpy. I'm trying to use field mappings but am missing something:
fields = arcpy.ListFields("some_table")
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Passing attributes from join features to target features in 'SpatialJoin_analysis'?
I'm doing a spatial join between two polygon data sets (A and B). B polygons are always smaller than A polygons and there's only a small number of them. They have 2 attributes that I'd like to pass on ...
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Renaming ESRI default SHAPE_Length and SHAPE_Area fields [closed]
I have been working on a draft feature class that will eventually go into our production database, and I just tested it against my organization's standards, but it fails because the "SHAPE_Length" and ...
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Cannot assign output field name to FieldMap
In attempting to map input fields to output fields, I am finding that I cannot correctly assign the output field name. Running the script produces no errors, but for a given FieldMap object, the ...
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Merging many different feature classes into one but only taking certain fields from each?
I'm trying to merge ~50 feature classes into 1. The problem is, these feature classes have many different fields, and some that i don't want in the final FC. I can delete the fields one by one ...
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How to bring over only 2 fields from the join feature class when using “SpatialJoin_analysis” and set up a merge rule?
I'm trying to understand how to use FieldMap and FieldMappings.
I know very little about objects plus I'm finding the explanations on ESRI website not very good and far from comprehensive.
All I'm ...
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What does “Do you want to reset the field mapping” mean in QGIS Refactor Fields dialog?
I want to convert the type of some fields in a vector layer from String to Real. I am trying to use the Processing -> QGIS geoalgorithms -> Vector table tools -> Refactor fields tool to do this. When ...
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Using Field Mapping with TableToTable_conversion in arcpy
I am importing csv files into a gdb, and need to change a couple field types during the import. I am trying to use the field mapping in TableToTable_conversion to change the field type as the table ...
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Split a vector into parallel grids [duplicate]
I have a piece of land (vector) with, for example, potatoes and I want to make a grid for spraying. That means i need a grid with size 45mx10m with different values per box. Important is that the grid ...
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Using Polygon or Multipolygon for mapping fields in QGIS?
I'm trying to map medieval field systems in QGIS, this means that I'll be drawing quite a few polygons. I've mapped quite a few fields already using Spatialite layers using polygons, though I was ...
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Making model in ModelBuilder output fields based on user input shapefile and not shapefile used to build model?
I made a model with which I would like to process various shapefiles that have different fields. I built it using a test shapefile that had its own fields.
When I try running another shapefile ...
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Resources for Arcpy Field Mappings String Syntax
I need to edit an existing python script to add an additional field to a field mapping function. This field mapping function does NOT use the arcpy field mapping object--it instead uses a structured ...
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ArcPy ERROR 000800 AlterField_management
I made some adjustments to existing code, and now there seems to be a glitch down the line in an area where no adjustments were made.
My initial goal was to ensure the correct data types are shown ...
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Select all fields from table and use with arcpy.DeleteIdentical_management()?
I would like to use arcpy.DeleteIdentical_management() function without having to specify all fields in the table.
Is there a keyword used to select all field in a table? I tried "*" or "ALL" but ...
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How to directly add new fields at the right position with PyQGIS?
I have an existing Attribute Table.
I add new fields with PyQGIS but I would like to set this fields at the second and third position and, not at the end. Because by default, the new field is added at ...
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Using arcpy.FieldMappings() to load data into tables
I have been tasked with bringing in a dataset from one table with a hard and fast schema into another table with the same. Both tables have very similar fields, but the names and capitalization are ...
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Ignore Fields in Target Table When using FieldMapping in Append Tool
I am transforming one feature class into another (currently empty) feature class.
The input feature class and output feature class share the same fields, but the output feature class has some ...
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Field Mapping in Custom ArcMap Script
I'm writing a script which takes, for its first two parameters, feature classes (or tables). For the third parameter, I want to provide the user with a field mapping option similar to what ArcMap uses ...
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Get field name of shapefile geometry for using GeoDjango LayerMapping
I want to use LayerMapping to insert any shapefile to PostGIS. I insert the geometry only, into generic tables. For that i need a mapping between the shapefile field names and the django models field ...
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Setting list of fields to field mapping of spatial join using ArcPy?
I try to code spatial join tool and delete some fields in the result. to delete the fields i list the fields of source layer and the result layer then use the list of differences in the two list and ...
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App for recording waypoints and photos for GIS on android
I'm looking to collect photos and notes during a field trip to add to (just for comparison) a landcover raster dataset I'm working with.
Ideally I want to visit certain field sites, take photos with ...
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How to compare feature sets with different field names?
I am trying to compare the fields of 2 feature layers to each other. The fields, though, have different names. I think this image shows this a little better:
I am lost as to how this can be ...
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Append not populating target dataset - Arcpy
I am attempting to append several features from an input dataset to a target dataset. Both datasets have several matching fields, which are the ones that I would like to keep - fields that do not ...
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Simpler Method to Map Fields in Spatial Join
I've cobbled together a script, part of which creates field mapping to sum fields in a spatial join. It took 13 lines of codes just to define which fields I want summed in the output. Is there a ...
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Changing the target field width using Fieldmappings. ArcGis, Merge,
I need to merge several shapefiles. All of them has the same attribute/field structure, but the width is not the same for the attributes with the same name.
I tried to use Fieldmappings to set a wide ...
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Batch append features with custom attributes
I have a directory with 2,000+ subdirectories that contain shapefiles submitted by project managers through a web form. Some contain additional subdirectories that hold the shapefiles as follows:
L:\...
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spatial join field mapping Arcpy, change merge rule
I have a line feature class which represents a stream network. At a confluence of two river segments, I'm joining the stream segments to the point of intersection via spatial join (one to one join). I ...
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Dissolving while retaining field informations in the same entry instead of multiple entries
I have 1520 covenants. Many covenants have more than 1 VM symbols attached to it, currently showing as rows. EG. Covenant #97 has 4 VM Symbols, with the VM Symbols 1, 67, 117 and 171. How do I change ...
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Spatial Join in Python Field Mapping with Multiple Merge Rules
I'm performing a Spatial Join with a polygon (target) and a point (joinFeature)- which has 5 fields in it that I need to "sum". I have written a Spatial Join and (after many long days) gotten the ...
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Where is the field mapping for Attribute Transfer tool stored?
I can't seem to find any patterns in when the source-destination field mapping is preserved. Is this stored in the database, map document, or elsewhere? I'd like to know so I don't have to create the ...
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What is the equivalent of city, county and state in the Philippines?
I am developing a map application using HERE Maps and wondering if what is the equivalent of the fields 'city', 'county' and 'state' for the addresses in the Philippines?
Currently, I have mapped ...
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Can the field mapping be shortened in ArcToolbox tools?
I have converted a model to python in ArcGIS 10.3, and have found that the tool outputs a full and very very long field mapping. Is there a way to shorten this somehow? While I want all field names/...
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Arcpy.addTable() error
I am having a little trouble debugging an ex-coworkers code.
I am receiving this error:
RuntimeError: FieldMappings: Error in adding table to field mappings
The code:
CIP_FDFC_Tuple = [('...
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Change length of string fields in featureclass using arcpy v10.1
I am trying to edit the length of all the text fields in a feature class. The feature class has a lot of fields so I want to do this in python. I only have access to v10.1 so cannot use the ...
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Adding FieldName in Field Mapping - ArcGIS
In ArcGIS FieldMapping, is there any way to add "FieldName", while we use MergeRule-Join?
Please refer the attachment;
I know, we can concatenate Field Values using MergeRule-Join, with Delimiter "|"...
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Spatial Join Field Mapping in ArcPy?
I know there already are posts about this subject, I tried to derive a solution for my own problem but the code for field mapping is very complex to me.
I have a Raster 100x100m and point layers that ...
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Change Field Type using Field Mapping for List of Tables using Python
I have a collection of about 200 tables, and I would like to make sure that all the fields are text before merging them into a single table using python. There is at least one field ("Number_of") ...
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Using the 'Mean' mergeRule with a spatial join
I have two feature classes. The first is a point file, derived from a raster, with the values for slope of the terrain. The second is a shapefile of polygons. What I want to do is spatially join the ...
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Limiting available values in dropdown field of QGIS form according to value selected in previous field?
I'm building a rather complex entry form for a layer stored in a PostGIS database. I am following this usage scenario:
On several occasions I have dropdown fields which lets the user select a type of ...
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ModelBuilder - Iterate through tabels to join and export and keep original field names
I am trying to iterate through an excel with over 200 sheets and join each to a ZIP code layer. I then need to symbolize each of those the three different ways and save that to a layer file. In order ...
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Field mappings object not functioning with Merge_management
I'm trying to limit the number of fields when I perform a merge to two. Below is the script I have created to do so. However, the merged feature class carries over all fields, despite my use of a ...
