Arcmap grid index feature
I have used the Grid index feature tool to create an index grid. The label/attribution of the page names are populated in a “row” orientated manner. eg lef to right a1,a2,a3,a4,a5,a6 b1,b2,b3,b4,b5,b6...
View ArticleGIS for large (>> 2GB) files
I’m a novice GISer who needs to do some basic computations on very large (say ~20GB) files. Nothing complicated, merge, intersect, add XY columns kind of thing. It’s a necessary step for a project, but...
View ArticleHow to show portion of country and country itself on map (child and parent)?
I want to make a map using arcmap. I want my map look like this: A complete map of a province of a country (full size) In the right or left corner of the map the whole map of country should be shown...
View ArticleSpatial join geotagged images to preexisting point shapefile?
I have a layer of geotagged images (points with jpg thumbnail attachment), and another layer of different points (shapefile with various attributes). I would like to perform a spatial operation in...
View ArticleDissolve administrative boundaries in shape file
I cannot find a shapefile that gives me only the outline of Ireland, instead they include different regions/divisions. I only want the outline of the island itself i.e the coastline How do I dissolve...
View ArticleArcMap, divide eco country map in to districts and generate multiple Jpeg files
I have eco system map of a country. and I have the district map of the same country. (country is divided in to 25 districts). What I need is eco system map of each district. (maps are over-laying) I...
View ArticleTrouble running network analyst for closest facility anaysis
I’m trying to carry out closest facility analysis in Arcmap 10.2.2 on the network analysis layer created from the OS integrated transport and urban path networks. But when I click “solve” in the...
View ArticleCan an ArcGIS Desktop Add-In Tool have two or more input events?
I’m trying to create an add-in for ArcMap in Visual Studio that adds points on mouse clicks and then executes some geoprocessing on those points when the enter key is pressed. So far sifting through...
View ArticleArcMap 'in_memory' trouble?
Being new to ArcMap, and ArcPy I have a problem with a script including several geoprocessing functions. The number of functions inspired a search for a means to save outputs (subsequent inputs) to...
View ArticleCopy table to attribute table
I have some tables with columns that I need to join/copy to another table, in case an attribute table. I was using join but I realized that it would be a better solution to add new fields to my initial...
View ArticleChange display text for hyperlink in attribute field in ArcMap?
I have an attribute field that I would like to be able to click the title of a document and it would open the document. But I do not want the field to display “C:/path/file1.pdf”, I would just like it...
View ArticleGeoprocessing breaks my data links after upgrade?
I’ve had this problem all day, and it’s happened before, too. I am running desktop 10.3.1 and want to produce a very simple buffer from a single parcel. The output is assigned to the same .gdb that the...
View ArticleExtracting coordinates of polygon vertices in ArcMap?
I’ve got about a dozen polygons in a feature class loaded in ArcMap 10, all in geographic WGS 1984. How do I easily obtain the coordinates associated with each vertex of each polygon in that feature...
View ArticleCreate Centerlines of a Polygon Buffer Feature, ArcGIS 10.3
I have seen another method for this to create centerlines, but that involved splitting the line and deleting the line closures. This is a huge network and the time involved in that would be...
View ArticleMapping continuous vector data on a continuous colour gradient in ArcMAP 10
I’m plotting vector data for different attributes for countries across Europe. I’ve used symbology to plot categories of countries. However, the data are numbers so are on a continuous scale. I would...
View ArticleDrawing lines showing connections between geocoordiante points
I have an ArcMap document with 100 locations plotted using their latitude and longitude values. I want to show connections between the 100 points in the graph. Essentially 100*100 = 10,000 lines. Is...
View ArticleExtract values from feature class to points
I am using ArcMap 10.3.1. I have a polygon feature class along with a point feature class. I want to extract values from one field of my polygon feature class to my points. To specify, I have a...
View ArticleHow to create a locator through Open Street Map Data
I need to make a locator for UK addresses and I know Open Street Map has very good data for the UK, I was wondering how I can convert the data for house addresses, which is in xml form, into a locator...
View ArticleLists in field calculator in ArcMap?
Would anyone please indicate to me why this is not working. I am trying to convert all instances of ’02ND’ to ’2ND’ for example where some of the input fields (f1) are already converted and some are...
View ArticleJoin tables with duplicate values
I have two sets of data: list of parcel numbers and locations which I am interested in Address database for the county (shapefile) In dataset 2 there can be multiple instances of the same parcel number...
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