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Indicates questions asking about the use and meaning of specific technical words in GIS.
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Describing geographic characteristics by lat/long?
Each item of "stuff" corresponds to a layer and/or a field within a layer.
You should not expect to find this data pre-linked to every possible lat/long value because there are an infinite number of …
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What is the difference between ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS FOR Desktop?
They are the same product i.e. there is no difference.
My recollection is that when launched in 1999 what today is known as ArcGIS Desktop 10.6 was known simply as ArcGIS 8.0.
Later, maybe at 9.0, a …
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General terms for the Esri-terms "Layer" and "Feature Class"
In place of feature class I would use Spatial Dataset in Vector Format initially, and then shorten to Vector Dataset.
I think layer can be considered to be an already vendor independent term.
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What is getting nearest points between two different but nearby (almost intersecting) datase...
I would call this performing proximity analysis which involves tools with names like near, point distance or spatial join.
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What is getting nearest points between two different but overlaping datasets called?
Assuming that your fire addresses are point locations and that your properties are polygons, this sounds like a point-in-polygon overlay analysis.
Tools for doing this typically have names like inter …
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Terminology for distinguishing ArcPy installed with ArcGIS 10.x for Desktop from that which ...
The contribution that I think helps answer this the most is the comment by @khibma:
to my knowledge nothing on external Esri sites, nor internally do we
call it anything other than arcpy. If in …
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Difference between files of extension .asc, .asc.aux.xml, .aux and .rrd?
These files are described in the ArcGIS Help:
From Reduced resolution dataset files:
A reduced resolution dataset (.rrd) file is one method of storing the
pyramid layers for a raster dataset. …
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