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How to permanently join MDB database (access) table with spatial data in ArcGIS for Desktop?

You did not mention which part of ArcGIS you have your join. In ArcMap, tabular joins are temporary by nature, To make a tabular join permanent you just need to export it to a new feature class. If …
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Displaying road outlines but not segments i.e. no lines at intersections?

One quick and easy trick I use is to have the layer in the map twice. The top layer is displayed as a white line (or white fill & no outline if the layer is a polygon) and the bottom copy is black an …
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Using UpdateCursor to update a field based on other field values

For comparison of 'equals' you need to use a double equals sign '==' if row[0] == 4401: row[1] = "Aire" cursor.updateRow(row) A single equals sign is the assignment operator in pyt …
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ArcGIS 10.1 Legend - Increase Icon on legend without increase on map

The method we use is to have a duplicate copy of the layer just for the legend. After the map layer looks the way you want, just drag the layer from the TOC and on to the map to make a duplicate. We …
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Make lists of shapefiles using loop

If you are looking to build a list of existing shape files, you can easily generate this outside of ArcGIS (which always adds extra overhead and slows things down) by using python objects to look for …
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SDE Versioned Data Editing Problem

ArcGIS is set up to edit only versioned data in ArcSDE by default. You can change this behavior in if you need to edit SDE data that is unversioned. See the documentation for v10.0 at Configuring an …
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How to process large shapefiles faster in ArcGIS for Desktop?

Any time you are looking at a heavy process consider scripting it out with python. By scripting you do not have to worry about ArcMap or Catalog having to load all of the other overhead (such as th …
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Append operation in ArcGIS

I would use a python script to do this. Start by putting all of the files into a single directory and then in python call the ListFeatureClasses() function and use that as the list of your data so …
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Problem of linear records with zero shape length and no geometry in attribute table

This is normal and has been around since at least ArcView 3.1. It is easiest to consider geometry as just another attribute. ArcGIS has to create a empty record before it can start to fill it with a …
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Update license for enterprise geodatabase with GP/Python?

At 10.1 They added a tool box for Managing the Geodatabase. One of these tools is 'Create Enterprise Geodatabase'. Once you have your basic database up and running, you use this tool to get your lic …
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