Data about data
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ArcToolbox Metadata. How does this work?
I've created several python scripts and created tools from them.
I have a custom toolbox that contains all of my tools.
I add this toolbox to the ArcToolbox window in ArcCatalog.
I want to create ...
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How to document GIS analysis?
New to QGIS & GIS-meta
While I know I can annotate within a map, what is being used for documenting your work:sources of data, choices of color/per layer with each map made ( thinking along the ...
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Display ArcSDE-metadata in Browser
Is there a good tool / technique to display ArcSDE-metadata in a webbrowser?
We want to provide user without GIS-knowledge with a user friendly tool to explore our SDE metadata catalog. We are using ...
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How do I write XML metadata with Python?
Some Python software I have written generates raster files via GDAL. I would like the software to create an XML metadata file for each raster so that I can include details about how the raster was ...
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How do you create an ArcCatalog-friendly xml metadata file from a url metadata?
How do you take metadata information from a url like this and create an xml file that ArcCatalog's "import xml" metadata tool will accept? I have tried a few variations on pasting the url information ...
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Access Metadata from ArcSDE-tables using python
Is it possible to access the metadata of a feature class in a ArcSDE-data, using arcpy / python (on Arcgis 10.0).
I suppose I could export the metadata to xml and parse the xml, but is there a more ...
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1answer
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How can I find and fix broken raster metadata using QGIS?
I have a raster (TIFF) hillshade image that I would like to use in a mapping project. However, I'm having a hard time lining it up properly in QGIS. Through a series of investigations, I have ...
3
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How to read/write ENVI metadata using GDAL?
I am trying to use GDAL to read and write images in ENVI format (for example a .bsq file with an associated .hdr file). The GDAL Formats Info page states "Starting with GDAL 1.10, all ENVI header ...
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How to make a GIS inventory?
My office will be seeing a big change in it's GIS section. This section has been operational since 80's and has a huge collection of GIS data (ie. shapefile, raster file, data etc) but never been ...
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Column “osm_meta” in osm2po 4.6.9
What's the utility of *osm_meta* column in osm2po (Version: 4.6.9) generated data?
Thanks in advance!
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1answer
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Importing metadata from HTML into ArcCatalog fails
I downloaded restricted areas shapefile from here:
https://webgis.dme.qld.gov.au/webgis/webqmin/viewer.htm
It came with a rst.html file, which, on opening, displayed a page exactly the same as the ...
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how to parse a XML Document file associated with the shapefile into a PostGIS/PostgreSQL table
I have a shapefile, and information on its attributes is stored in a XML Document format. For example, the attribute of COUNTY is stored as follows:
-<attr>
...
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How to Edit custom help in ArcGIS ModelBuilder?
I have created a model in ArcGIS model-builder with a certain number of layers specified as parameters. When I launch the model from the tool-box, I would like to edit the information in the right ...
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Standard for storing human metadata in spatial databases
Is there an existing, standard, universal approach (and hopefully existing tools that support managing it) for storing geospatial metadata in non-ESRI spatial databases alongside (and therefore able ...
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can't get sum of cells [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Sum of pixels in QGIS
In QGIS 1.8, when I open any raster's properties window, under "metadata" I see there is a parameter called "sum of cells", however, regardless of ...
