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Should I use File Geodatabase (*.gdb), Personal Geodatabase (*.mdb) or shapefiles?
I am a bit confused on the topic of databases. For me, this far, I have used databases as an easy way to keep all files together rather than having dozens of shapefiles all over the place. And it's ...
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Does the National Hydrology Dataset geodatabase work in qgis? [duplicate]
I am running QGIS 1.8 on a windows xp pc and trying to put the USGS National Hydrology Dataset (more info herefor Oregon into a project. I try to "add vector data", using directory option then ...
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Merge two geodatabases with identical structure
I'm using an ArcGIS addon which stores all created data (shapes and tables) in a gdb. The addon is made for single user use but to safe time I want to split the work with someone else. After that I ...
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Problem deleting file GDB with model builder when it has features in it
I built a simple tool that creates 2 file GDBs for my work needs, and another to delete them after the job is done.
When the GDBs are empty, the delete tool works fine. However, when there are ...
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How to create something similar to GDB in QGIS?
I used to work with ArcGIS. There I had geodatabases in which I could store several shapefiles with defined layer styles.
Is there a way to do something similar with QGIS?
The background is: we are ...
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How to convert GDB data to shapefiles without ArcGIS?
We've got some data (supposedly it's a simple collection of points--or at least that is all we need to extract) from a 3rd party in a GDB folder (I don't know how to tell what version) but we don't ...
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QGIS 1.8 fails to add vector data layer from directory
I 'm running QGIS 1.8 on Windows 7 and trying to add vector data from an ESRI gdb directory. It worked before on another machine, after following the instructions on this thread:
How to get ...
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Add date to feature class name?
I still working on my big project, big at least for me, but I am currently stuck on this:
I have a lots of .shp, that I want to move to a gdb. While creating a feature class, I want
to add date ...
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How to script a csv to file geodatabase tool?
I have many separate field data files in CSV format and I wish to automatically convert these CSV files into a geodatabase to be able to load them into a schema I created for them in my new ArcSDE ...
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Move .SHP from .MXD to gdb [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to move SHP to gdb with ArcView license?
Let's cut it short, I have numerous mxd with layer coming from .SHP and various servers WMS that I need to move to a gdb.
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Check validity of file geodatabase using arcpy
AS the title suggests, how can I whether a GDB file is valid using arcpy? One approach is, only checking the whether the name ends with .gdb, but that's not a robust approach. Because a normal file ...
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Need links on DWG to GDB conversion using FME Workbench
I am using FME workbench (trial version) to convert .DWG to .GDB (ESRI Geodatabase [file based]). I have mapped the Writer attributes with the exact Writer attributes. In fact, in the test database ...
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Using kriging with data in GDB
I have series of data in my GDB
I am running the program under VBA and what I want to do is using the data by the tool Kriging.
This is what I thought:
First, Kriging needs data that must be a ...
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Why does ArcGIS “forget” my specified default GDB for a map document (mxd)?
I'm using ArcGIS 10.0 on Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate.
I've noticed that sometimes ArcMap's geoprocessing tools as well as scripts seem to forget my setting in the mxd (confirmed via arcpy.env.workspace ...
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Data ETL workflow optimization
I have a legacy workflow that I would like to optimize and automate (at least partially). The current workflow goes like this. I receive a MS Access .mdb file containing a single table. This table ...
