Questions tagged [grids-graticules]
Grids and Graticules include reference grids, measured grids and graticules
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Non-geographic grids on maps
There are plenty of maps around, printed and otherwise, with numbered grids that do not directly equate to real-world coordinate systems.
Typically these grids will have 0,0 in the bottom-left corner ...
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Facing interior label of grid?
The grid labeling is not going on the border, it always marked on the boundary of vector dataset?
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Import grid into Diva
I am new DIVA - GIS user. I want to import country .grd file from diva - gis website. I tried with Bolivia, and it works fine, but it doesn't work with Bosnia (which actually is my subject of analysis)...
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Centroids of each grid cell
I have a grid created by mean the following script:
# My grid [using package 'sf']
worldGrid <- st_make_grid(x = worldMap, what = "polygons", cellsize = 10)
worldGrid <- st_sf(idcell = 1:length(...
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From a Grid map to a dataframe of presence/absence of each cell
Working in R, I have a grid map of the world (as SpatialPolygonsDataFrame object). I have also many indipendent shapefiles (formed by several polygons) expressing species ranges. I grouped all these ...
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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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Closest Point Pairs to determine grid resolution
I'm reading Hengl's (2006) Finding the Right Pixel Size.
In it, among many different suggested approaches, he suggests using a grid resolution where > 95% of the closest point pairs do no fall into ...
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Grid convergence
I was trying to overlay the British National Grid (OSGB 1936 UTM projection) onto the Eurostat grid (ETRS 1989 LAEA Europe) and realized that they do not perfectly overlay (after projecting the ...
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Looking for tile-grid polygon layer
I'm looking for a vector-grid that has grid-cell boundaries for every tile/zoom-level in the standard x/y/z web-map tiling scheme. Googling has done me no good...anyone know of a source?
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Vector Grid Creates just one grid
Im trying to create a vector grid for my shapefile. I want it to be in meters so I set my CRS to EPSG:32650 UTM 50N. This is what I do exactly
I set the layers CRS to that one above, then click on ...
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Set Grid Composer Unit in UTM for QGIS 2.18.14
I was very confused with my QGIS 2.18.14,
i'm pretty sure that i used correct coordinate system, WGS84/UTM 48N, and the coordinate also said so. But why when i set the grid. The grid coordinate is ...
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ArcMap Data Driven Pages Display Error - Grids Display Incorrectly
I am running ArcMap 10.4.1 with an Advanced Licence on Windows 7.
I have created a mapbook in ArcMap.
The mapbook consists of a mask, data-driven page grid (generated from a Fishnet).
The mask is a ...
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QGIS - Calculate Highest Elevation within 1 degree grid
I have downloaded country raster elevation data from Diva-GIS and added 1 degree grid from "View >> Decorations >> Grid" as seen in the image below. Now, I want to know the highest elevation within ...
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"Grid" menu is missing from SAGA on my QGIS 2.18 setup
I am just a learner and learning through internet tutorials. I tried to learn about SAGA tools specially for "Grid" options, but I am unable to see any menu icon of Grid on SAGA toolbar.
I am ...
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Turning off grid using ArcPy?
I work with 72 MXD's files, and i need to turn off the grid in order to export it without the grid.
I don't want to do it manually, neither using the "Tinytask" software, as mentioned in Changing ...
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Creating waypoint coordinates on a grid within an area
Do you know which GIS software or online tool supports returning GPS coordinates on a grid within an area? Kinda like waypoints for drone photographing 90 degrees looking down of an area for 3d ...
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Create triangles from points on ArcGIS
I'm using ArcGIS 10.3.
I need to create a grid where all the points are vertexes of triangles that do not overlap themselves.
I want this to be done by only using the points location, no elevation ...
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Adding MGRS grid in QGIS
I'm trying to generate a Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) grid on QGIS (with polygons in a scale of 100m), such a grid will be similar to when importing a grid made of shapefiles (such as http://...
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Grid Won't Show in QGIS?
I have this local map that'd I'm trying to add a grid with decimal points. The internal grid won't show, also when I add the zebra frame the white parts only appear in the corners (as tiny squares). I ...
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Military Grid Reference System Grid as Shapefile/FeatureClass
Is it possible to create a Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) Grid for a complete grid zone at a given precision level, for example 10km, as a Shapefile/FeatureClass with ArcGIS 10.4?
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How to Create a Grid Inside a Polygon that is Oriented with the Longest Side?
I have been using a process called "Create Polygon Graticule" to create a grid within a polygon with assigned row and column attributes. It is a SAGA tool which I have been running in QGIS. It ...
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enumerate function not working [closed]
The following script only gives me a result for the last given grid (grid2"), does anyone know why?:
# Import arcpy module
import arcpy
import shapefile
# Arcpy settings
arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = ...
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Creating single squared tile fishnet buffer based off shapefile in ArcGIS Desktop?
I'm interested in creating a fishnet buffer around a current grid I have. The fishnet buffer I'm interested in making needs to be exactly the same cell size and extend just one grid cell around the ...
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Applying Winner Takes All method to raster data in ArcGIS Desktop?
I have a classified raster dataset (A). I've transformed it to polygon type data and then have applied a fishnet to it.(B) Now i want to assign a single class to a single grid (polygon type i need) ...
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Create 10 second grid/graticule ArcMap
I am looking for a way to create a 10 second graticule/grid. I have north west corner coordinates where the grid should start from and spread out based on 10 second intervals. I have looked at two ...
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How I can find raster angle in ArcGIS
I have a raster layer in ArcGIS with specific extent. How can I be able to find the angle of this raster frame? Because I create fishnet but it is like a rectangular area and does not match to ...
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QGIS clip grid frame to shape?
I am working in QGIS and would like the grid frame to align with the edges of my conic projection region. Is there a way to do this? In arc it is very straightforward but I have yet to find a method ...
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In ArcMap graticule ticks on opposite ends of the dataframe do not align
I'm adding tick marks and labels to my dataframe but the ticks on the top do not align with the corresponding ticks on the bottom. The same is true with left and right ticks. See image below for ...
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In which coordinates (x, y, z) are vertical grids expressed?
When working with 2D maps, coordinates are always expressed in X and Y. Adding a 3rd dimension also adds the Z-coordinate, which typically stands for height.
However, when working with vertical ...
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Points equally spaced in polygon, allowing for slope using ArcGIS Desktop?
I need to create a grid of points within a given area so that each point is 75m across the ground from any other point. The fish net tool would create the desired outcome on flat land but I need to ...
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ArcMap grids with different coordinate systems problem [closed]
I'm doing an exercice in cartography. We should do the canvas to a topographic map (1:25000), we start with a given point, we make the other 15, into an Excel file, (map is 7'30" * 7'30") the goal is ...
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calculating a volume from points [closed]
I am trying to calculate the amount of water in this reservoir. The green dots are water depths in meters (possitive value). The water depth at the edges of the reservoir is 0.
How can this be done ...
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GDAL gdalwarp usage on QGis - how to set cell position of the clipped raster to be equal to the origin of the source cell
I work on a Windows QGis 2.14 platform. I need to clip a raster with a vectorial polygon. When I use gdalwarp I cannot find where is the setting for establishing the output graticule position respect ...
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USA national grid shapefiles
Where can I find shapefiles for 1kmx1km grid (UTM grid) for the entire USA? It seems everywhere that I looked at there were shapefiles for states separately or for some particular UTM zones. I don't ...
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Data-driven QGIS print composer label formatting?
In QGIS print composer I want to label a UTM grid with some specific attributes:
A full UTM grid reference for the labels nearest the corners of the map, rotated perpendicular to the map axis.
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QGIS Print Composer Grid Draw Coordinates line offset
I have had a good google about this and can't find anything on it. is it possible to offset grid labels from the grid basically trying to move the label to where the red lines are on this crude ...
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Automatic add/load raster layer within selected polygon [closed]
Is it possible to automatic load/add georeferenced raster by selecting a polygon in a grid or by making a selection in a map. Perhaps it is possible to make at tool with modelbuilding?
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Custom Overlay Grid - Labeling the axes differently
i have a map where i want to put the grid axes. i have a separate layer based on which i want to create the axes. now custom overlay feature in arcGIS gives you only one label field to label the axes ...
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Displaying measured grids in ArcGIS Pro 1.4?
Is it really not possible to display reference grids in an ArcGIS Pro 1.4 layout view ie Eastings & Northings?
At the moment there only seems to be an option for graticules. The ESRI support ...
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Adding UTM grid (NAD83) with 1x1km spacing and label the grid lines?
I'm currently running QGIS 2.18.4 (the latest release).
I'm trying to add a UTM grid to my maps, specifically the NAD83 reference system for zone 15N, that hopefully can show UTM coordinates and with ...
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Clipping Township and Range Grid to a shape in layout view [closed]
What I am trying to do is to create a map of a county with township and range labeled on the outside of the county boundary, specifically I do not want a rectangle frame with tick marks and labels ...
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Putting grid in QGIS? [closed]
I create a layout in QGIS, I'm going to put a grid (LAT and LONG); so the problem is my map scale is too small so the interval must be less than 1 degree.
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Extracting the grid coordinates in a raster map [closed]
I have a gridded raster map produced from the NASA precipitation data over a country. The pixel type of the map is in floating point with 32 Bit pixel depth. Therefore, it does not have any attribute ...
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QGIS grid not displaying
I'm making a world map in QGIS 2.18 Las Palmas. The data came from Natural Earth using the WGS84 CRS, however I want to use a Robinson projection for my map. I reprojected the data, by clicking 'save ...
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Aligning dataframes to exactly match information in another dataframe when sizes of 2 dataframes are different?
I have a dataframe which is using data-driven attribute (say zone). Now this layer has grids with specific numbering but since it is data driven, each time the zone changes, the grid numbering will ...
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Formula to create representative-sized rectangular map cell grids from degrees
I'm a novice user in R.
I have a dataset consisted of coordinates of some "kind of centroids" of grid cells and my question is if any formula exists to create representative sized grid cells using ...
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Creating rotated fishnet from grid of evenly spaced points in ArcGIS Desktop?
I am working with climate models, so I have a point shapefile representing the grid of data points of my climate models. My points are sort of evenly spaced along both directions, the distance being 1,...
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QGIS Vector Grid tool differences in Apple and Windows?
Seeing a different Vector Grid tool in Apple and Windows OS. Apple is using 2.14.8 and Windows is using 2.16.3
Is this due to different versions of QGIS or is it an OS issue?
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When the mouse moves on the grid, so does the corresponding point on the map
I am trying to create a specific functionality in mapping application.
The application currently lets users draw a profile line on a map and click run. The map then takes a DEM file and creates a ...
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Import grid text file to shapefile in QGIS
I'm working with the Climate Change forecasts from the Hadley Center Climate Model (HADCM3) available here: http://www.ipcc-data.org/sres/hadcm3_download.html
They have many different forecasts and ...
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