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Clockwise sorting segments of a polygons

My polygons are divised into an array of lines features. Each segments have only 2 coordinates. I would like to sort those segments clockwise starting from the top-right (north-east) like in the image ...
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Field calculating sequential numbers based on geographic location (WE_NS Diagonal) in ArcMap [closed]

I am using ArcMap. I am looking for a script that I can use to field calculate sequential numbers based on the geographic location of the center of polygons. For example, let's say I have 50 parcels ...
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Creating Unique IDs of points in order from west to east

I have a dataset with over 1000s points. I am wondering if I am able to give each point a unique ID starting from west to east. I am using ArcMap 10.6. Is there a way to do this in ArcMap?
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SQL Sort data spatially using Peano method

I have to keep going back to ArcGIS to sort a dataset spatially using the PEANO method that's described here - http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/how-sort-works....
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Adding formatted sequence Number based on location?

I have Feature Point DATA. I need to add some sequence number to the attribute of each point, based on their location in the display map. In my attribute it'S ordered in the opposite way. In ...
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Sorting grid cells in fishnet grid by location and number using QGIS?

I am using QGIS 3.2.0 on a Mac (and also have QGIS 2), and I have a fishnet grid (probably created in Arc) that comprises of nearly 2 million grid cells. As a result, every change I make to the ...
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Giving numbers to each grid cell by rows in ArcMap? [duplicate]

I want to assign cell numbers to each grid cell (only having a point in the middle) beginning with 1 at the upper left corner, numbering consecutively by rows. The cells that I want to number are ...
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Ordering data in sequential order based on coordinates

I created a fishnet grid and need to give the individual polygons ID values based on their associated property names and location relative to each other. I was able to achieve the above results with ...
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QGIS spatial sort - coalesce?

In QGIS (v3.2) is there a spatial sort similar to ArcGIS (http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/how-sort-works.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_9C199CD3D68A41029943D4FF79500A73) ...
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Logically assigning values to polygons starting at top left using ArcGIS Desktop?

I have a layer in which the order of the OBJECTID's is rather random. How do I assign a new field in the data table that assign's number to each polygon based on it's position on the map? I'd like ...
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Auto increment features downwards - top of map to bottom map

is there a method/tool that can auto increment based on spatial location. I have tried a auto increment by "sort" based on (polygon centroids) X,Y coordinates but this doesn't really work that well ...
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Determining spatial sort order with ArcPy? [closed]

How do I determine if a varying hypothetical set of lines (example in image) needs to be sorted by X (longitude) rather than Y (latitude) programmatically to ensure they are ordered from 1 to 14 as ...
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Making ArcGIS tool to generate ObjectIDs that start from Upper left rather than bottom left in Fishnet?

When I spatial join a fishnet with another fishnet, I see ObjectIDs start from bottom left of the feature rather than Upper left of features. How can I make ArcGIS to create feature class having ...
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Automatically assigning numbers to point file in various order in QGIS?

I know how to automatically assign numbers to a new point files using the $rownum function in the field calculator. However it does it from the top-left over and down like reading a book. I could ...
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