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Add neighbouring values as a data field

How can I add data based on neighbouring values? If have a shapefile, dividing the country into different areas. I have population data for each area. I would like to add new fields to my data, deta …
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Identify outer most corner of Polygon [duplicate]

How can I create a point that identifies the outer most point/corner of a polygon (one point per polygon)?. It is easy to identify the centre point, but I cannot find options for the outer most corn …
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Difference between planar and Euclidean distance?

I wanted a straight-line distance. When I was calculating near distance on Arc GIS, I was only given the option between planar and geodesic distance. But people in my field keep referring to my stra …
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Generate near table failed

I have been generating near tables for the nearest neighbour, for weeks now with the same files, but when I tried it today it would not work. Here is a snapshot of the error. I also have one input fea …
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Changing coordinate system gone wrong

I have geographic data for the road network. I changed my data from a geographic coordinate system (blue line) to a projected coordinate system (red line), it worked perfectly for all of my data, exc …
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Editing the shape_length field in a gdb file

I spotted two mistakes in my file (see objectid = 395), as seen in the photo. I know what the values are meant to be, and I can edit the length(km) variable in ArcMap, but I am unable to edit the shap …
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Drawing a straight line and finding neighbouring area

I have a shapefile showing district boundaries, and the coordinates of cities. I need to: Draw a line between two coordinates e.g. draw a line between the centre of London city and the centre of Man …
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Are ArcView and Basic license levels of ArcMap the same?

I need the near(dist) command, but I think I need to have a more advanced version than what I have. I have: ArcMap 10.0 (Build 4000) ArcGIS desktop 10 service pack 4 (Build 4000) license type: Ar …
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Keeping OID field when exporting to CSV?

I imported a csv file and converted it to gdb format, and now I want to export it back to csv. The file will be the exact same as before I imported it, except I want to keep the ArcMap generated OID. …
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Is 2Gb RAM enough to run ArcGIS for Desktop?

I am on a budget and I want to buy a laptop solely for the purposes of using Arcmap and nothing else. The laptop I am going to buy is as follows: HP Stream 11-d061na 11.6 Intel Celeron N2840 dual co …
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Joining table to a near table

I calculated the distances between one set of xy coordinates and another set of xy coordinates. So my near table has the ID variables, distance and rank. However, when I join the near table to the c …
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Search radius for some intermediate distance

ArcMap on my laptop runs very slowly. So it can take a long time for a near table to run. Is it possible to use a search radius for some intermediate distance? For example, the search radius only l …
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Can you map distance bands?

I know you can calculate using distance bands, but can you actually illustrate them on the map in ArcGIS? I have a presentation next week, and it would be a useful illustration for me to use.
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Add an area field using a shapefile

I have an attribute table of xy points that I have plotted on a map, and a shapefile that divides the map into 46 different areas. I want to add a field/variable to the table containing the xy points …
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Deleting some observations in near table?

I created some near tables, with a max near distance of 8000m. It is extremely timely exporting these files to csv right now. Is there a quick way in ArcGIS to delete observations that have a distan …
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