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A reference framework consisting of a set of points, lines, and/or surfaces, and a set of rules, used to define the positions of points in space in either two or three dimensions. This tag also refers to cartographic projections and coordinate system transformations.

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Printing Shapefile spatial Reference Using ArcPy?

I am trying to read and print out the coordinate system of a shapefile like this import arcpy dataset = r"E:\GIS\Centers.shp" desc = arcpy.Describe(dataset) extent = desc.extent spatialReference = d …
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How to define coordinate system and geographic transformation for a CAD drawing?

I am a GIS guy and I occasionally work with CAD files as well. Now I need to know how I can define a coordinate system and a geographic transformation for a CAD Drawing. According to ESRI: "You can d …
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Projecting Shapefile from WGS to Web Mercator changes output Field Type

Using ArcGIS 10.6 I am trying to project a shapefile data from Here street data-set in GCS WGS 1984 to WGS 1984 Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere. While the original data has an attribute like it chang …
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Difference between X,Y and Latitude,Longitude or Meters

According to Esri: "To add a table of x,y coordinates to your map, the table must contain two fields: one for the x-coordinate and one for the y-coordinate. The values in the fields may represent any …
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