Reshape Line Using Trace
How to use the trace tool in ArcMap to reshape a linear feature? The problem is that you cannot select both the feature to trace […]
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A GIS geek since 1992 or so.
Sanitize Filename (arcgis scripting)
I asked ESRI-L if there were an arcgisscripting method for sanitizing a filename to get rid of characters which Arcgis barfs on, the meek hyphen […]
Continue reading »Georeferenced Survey Plans
The federal government has plans for all surveyed parcels online as images, but they aren’t georeferenced. Here is a short recipe and dataset for fixing […]
Continue reading »Query Available Licenses
To which I now have a good working solution for scenario (B) and pointers towards (A) that might eventually turn into a shell script. We’ll […]
Continue reading »Backdoor to US Seamless National Elevation Data
I recently needed to acquire a large swath of elevation data for Alaska. After fighting through the web map request interface for Seamless NED for […]
Continue reading »Multiuser MDB
Microsoft Access in a multiuser environment is usually an all or nothing affair: either all users have read/write access or no one does. Of course […]
Continue reading »Data Shift On Edit
Turns out there is a shift in data when using the editing tools (editor menu –> clipping, intersecting) in ArcGIS 9. This is because it […]
Continue reading »Batch Transfer Attributes
Scenario: Data_Cov has the attributes we need in region subcoverages; the geometry is unwanted. Geometry_Cov has the geometry we need, but no attribute data. Isn’t […]
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