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Locate and delete ArcGIS Desktop Lock files
I wan´t to simply delete the lock files that ArcGIS writes and doesn´t delete after removing data from the contents window. As my ArcGIS Desktop takes around 4 minutes to start, I am getting really ...
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Using JOIN TOOL in ModelBuilder
I want to perform JOIN TOOL for all DBFs generated from ZONAL STATISTICS AS TABLE into one table. However, it seems that DBF has a maximum of 255 fields while my dataset has more than 500 ...
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building a progress dialog with pythonaddins in ArcMap
As a component of my add-in, I compute a bunch of summary statistics when the user clicks a button. This can take a while to process and it can appear as though the program has stopped responding. I ...
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How to locate events at intersections using linear referencing?
I am having problem in locating intersection crashes. Actually I have intersecting legs with their specified begin and end mileposts. I am trying to locate crashes based on the milepost values.
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How to randomly subset X% of selected points?
What methods are available in ArcGIS 10.2 to randomly subset a selection of points. For example, in the attached screenshot I am interested in keeping 20% of the selected points and deleting the ...
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ArcGIS Dissolve not working [on hold]
Has anyone else had problems with Dissolve? No matter if I use toolbox, model builder or python. I end up with more polygon than I started with (from 700 to 1200) and I have always got the make ...
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Why does Calculate Geometry give incorrect number of decimals for Longitude?
intermediate ArcMap user here. I'm trying to calculate the geometry for a shapefile such that I can add lat/long columns to my attribute table. While I have no trouble calculating the latitude, the ...
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How do I add an iteration (and which one) in a model to join fields from several shapefiles into one final shapefile?
I have one grid (Atl1x1.shp) to which I need to add 9 Fields from 9 different shapefiles which are also grids (that is, 1 column from each shp, all with the same name). These shapefiles have the same ...
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How to integrate DEM in Kriging and other interpolation methods?
I would like to see the difference of including DEM in interpolation from without. Some studies on climate data interpolation suggest that interpolation performs better with DEM. How do I do this in ...
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How to rename points by clockwise direction or change starting point in polygon features?
I have a polygon feature class. I convert it to a point. Name of field (for example !Number!) in a point feature converted from polygon "A2"(The first point should be in the upper left corner ...
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Utility GIS - Type of data cleanup needed & Effort
I am trying to get into Utility GIS and I have been asked by my boss to size up the effort of what it takes to clean up Pipeline, Utility asset GIS data and figure out if there is a way think of a ...
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use google maps to map as a base map in arcgis 10.1 [duplicate]
I am using arcmap 10.1 and am editing my street layer, openstreemap base map I have, but the problem is that this does not have updated new streets and roads, I see that google maps map if you have ...
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Does ModelBuilder need to use variable to define projection and then re-project?
I am trying to build a Model in ModelBuilder to create two different process raster datasets:
One set is to define a raster dataset to set a WGS 84 projection; and then
the second set is to take ...
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How to Build Raster Attribute Table from .tif with pixel type of float or double?
I have a raster with the extension .tif. It's a subset of 87x87 pixel with values from some 6,66 to -4,27. If I right click on it there is no Attribute Table available. However, I can change the ...
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How to create Series of Rasters that displays Standard Deviation from Mean?
Cell statistics question for you.
I have 100 rasters of raw rainfall data in which the pixels each represent rainfall for that particular pixel on the landscape for a single year during the 100 year ...
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Elevation off Road in ArcGIS/Python
i'm using the Modelbuilder in ArcGIS 10.1 to calculate pixels depending on their slope and distance from the road. The third necessary task is to find out, if the pixel is upwards the road or ...
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Raster clipping over 1300 km2 orthophotos
I have all of Denmark in 25 cm orthophotos added to my ArcMap (mosaic dataset). I've added a polygon of an area covering over 1300 km2. I've used the raster clip tool to clip the data into a new ...
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Labels placement in ArcGIS
I need all labels to be placed outside of the boundary (polyline features). Most of the labels are placed outside the boundary line, while others (marked with red color) are placed inside the ...
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How can I improve the performance and start-up time of arcgis 10.x?
ArcGIS 10.0 take about 3 minutes to start. ESRI recommends doing these steps (http://support.esri.com/cn/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/31672) but does not explain the consequences or adverse ...
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Zooming into landsat-8 produces pixellated view
I am working on a project were I am using LANDSAT 8 images for remote sensing. The issue that I have is that when I zoom into them the photo is pixellated. I can not see a thing. When I zoom out ...
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How to get estimates of areas of overlapping polygons in one shp to another?
Sorry for my ineptitude, but I have two vector shape files of Africa. One has polygons of countries, and one has polygons of tribes a long time ago. What I want to do is to find the intersection of ...
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How can I access the Bands 7-2-1 from a Modis 7-2-1 image from Matlab?
I am able to read the modis image into Matlab. And I want to do some simple calculations. But, how do I access the different bands in Matlab (or ArcGIS Desktop 10,0)?
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ArcMap 10.0 won't load
ArcMap 10.0 on a Windows 7, 32-bit computer stopped loading two days ago. It worked perfectly before then. ArcCatalog, etc., all continue to open fine. Task Manager indicates ArcMap is trying to ...
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Creating Buffer from field in Attribute table
I have a shapefile in ArcMap with about 30 polygons and want create an inside buffer, using a different value for the distance of each buffer on each polygon. I was wondering if there was a way to use ...
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ArcGIS flow accumulation
I am trying to run ArcGIS 10.1 flow accumulation on a 10000 x 10000 cell unsigned 8Bit integer flow model (but 80% of that is no data). The data has been through a "fill" procedure once.
The only ...
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copy parallel error (the features couldn't be copied)
I have a problem with copy parallel. it gives me an error saying "the features couldn't be copied". I already have the new feature layer. The thing is when i select very few lines for example 2 or 3 ...
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How to convert a shapefile with Northing and Easting values into Lattitude and Longitude coordinates? [on hold]
I have a field survey data taken from Total Station and its giving values in terms of Easting and Northing..I Just wanted to know that how to convert the shapefile with easting and northing into ...
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how to decrease Raster size without altering cell size?
Is there a way to decrease the size of a raster image without decreasing cell size or quality?
I´m using ArcInfo but also have Saga-Gis or FME.
I could abviously change an 8bit raster to a 1bit ...
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How to create attribute table for raster data?
I have raster dataset for rainfall but its not having attribute table.
How can I create tabular data using the same raster file? How to join it back again to it?
Software used is ArcMap 10.1.
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How to recreate past landscapes on ArcGIS 10.1?
I am trying to recreate the landscape as it may have been around 4000 BC. I have an idea about what tree species existed in particular regions of Scotland (by reading pollen studies). Now I need to ...
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How to position callout bubble leader using maplex?
I'm using data driven pages to produce a number of maps. I'm using Maplex to have a callout bubble labeling my features. The problem is that for about 5% of the features, the callout bubble is not ...
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Arcpy.GetRasterProperties_management values do not match values found via ArcCatalog or ArcView
I am using Arcpy to extract the mean and standard deviation values of tiff Landsat satellite images and I get very high values. Values in the thousands rather than in the low hundreds! If I look at ...
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Why do features in WGS84 disappear from the (ArcMap) display when zooming in really close?
I routinely import centerlines and other data from various counties that are in different projections, so I've begun to convert everthing to WGS84 so all is in the same projection. I want to match up ...
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Using MODIS Terra TIF file to get land-water map
So, I have downloaded the 7-2-1 tif data (Not HDF) from the MODIS website and I want to create a map that shows flooded and non-flooded regions. I would like to do ISODATA classification in Matlab ...
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How can I export a point shapefile from ArcGIS to R
I am having several problems in exporting my point shapefile from ArcGIS 10 to R.
I tried to save the shapefile as a CSV, but R reads all in one row; somebody in another question answered to use ...
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ArcGIS Metadata validation
I have been importing metadata from an xml file generated with an xslt transform.
During the import process, ArcGIS attempts to validate the metadata. It gives a number of cryptic validation warnings ...
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How do I create a polygon with an ArcGIS 10.1 python addin
I'm looking for some code samples, or help with code to get me started. I've built a python addin menu which I would like to use to create polygon features in a specific layer in my edit session.
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Summary Statistics tool for Mean Z values
I'm using ArcGIS 10.2
The summary statistics tool is not functioning in the way that I want. I made an elevation layer that is a DSM, and then in my buildings layer I determined the height for ...
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Create python script to update field based on change in another field ArcGIS
I am trying to update a field "TPN" based on another field "PASS_NUM". In my script "TPN" is a newly added number field and thus blank, "PASS_NUM" is also a number field but it contains the wrong ...
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ArcGIS Desktop can't return concurrent license
We have one concurrent use ArcView license, managed by a license server box in the office. The server reports that one of our desktops has the license 'borrowed', but when looking at the Desktop Admin ...
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ArcMap Image Difference: Help interpreting/utilizing results
I'm working for the first time with ArcMap's relatively new image analysis window, and am using the "image difference" function to calculate change between two images which I have performed a ...
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Network Analysis: How to restrict certain road types and allow them to be traversable at intersections
I am faced with a problem for an assignment. I have tried restricting roads by using a restriction attribute with the following pre-logic script code with value = restricted
restricted = false
if ...
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How to display .osm files in ArcMap 10.1? [on hold]
I have downloaded a .osm file from open street map. I want to use it in ArcMap 10.1. Help? Thanks
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How to define a line's width graduated by its attributes?
I have a line shapefile with lots of lines that have different attribute values. I want to present these lines in different widths according to their attribute values without classes but a graduated ...
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Grouping Multiple Raster Layers
My question is how to create multiple raster layers group, for example when using several aerial photos. I wish to group the layers into one so that I can edit/select as a batch rather than having to ...
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Arcpy Closest Facility Layer unable to retrieve CFRoutes table
I am using the following code:
import arcpy, os, sys
from arcpy import env
arcpy.env.workspace = "C:\\Users\\Ant\\Documents\\ArcGIS\\ITN.gdb"
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Should slow refresh rate be expected while viewing 1000 points out of 100 million using ArcSDE/Oracle?
Is it normal to experience very slow refresh rate in ArcMap with 1000 points shown out of 100 million using ArcSDE/Oracle?
I’am testing a setup with ArcSDE/Oracle database to contain geographical ...
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Way to change the default parser in ArcGIS Field Calculator to Python?
Using ArcGIS 10.1
Is there a way to change the default parser in the Field Calculator to Python? So annoying to always change now that I'm trying to move away from using VBScript...
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Trimble RTK Data to ArcGIS
I wondering if there is a way I can take my field data collected on a Trimble R10 RTK GPS and import it into ArcMap for further processing, I have done some research and I know of Trimble GPS ...
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How to use coding for auto-comparing two different fields in ArcGIS for Desktop?
I want to compare two group fields in attribute table, which are related to the name of villages.
The name of these villages (in both field) are the same but they have in some cases differentiation ...
