Have your Hillshade and Elevate it too
For years and years we’ve been using Shaded Relief a.k.a Hillshade images in order to visualize and assess the qualities and deficiences of elevation models. […]
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Download Aerial Photographs from the Yukon Government image server
Go to the GeoYukon portal web app, Turn off all Operational Layers (optional), Turn on Base >> Imagery layers of interest (shows footprints) Zoom to […]
Continue reading »How to debug definition queries in ArcMap?
Troubleshooting and debugging ArcMap defintion queries that go beyond a basic single statement can be very frustrating. Statements that work on their own easily break […]
Continue reading »Join Jeopardy
Joining a table to features is an incredibly useful tool. It saves on duplication and double (or triple!) data entry and lets us focus on […]
Continue reading »Elevation Mask
How to quickly mask a region based on elevation values without creating additional files to manage and store. At right is a sample of a […]
Continue reading »Projecting to Yukon Albers
Yukon Albers is the default projection for most Yukon Government data and projects. Here are 3 methods to get your data into that projection. InteractiveOne-at-a-time: […]
Continue reading »North Arrows and True North
When you insert a north arrow onto a page in ArcMap, by default it will align to north of the data frame, the page in […]
Continue reading »Use Unsplit Lines instead of Dissolve for 3D lines
Executing: Dissolve Lines_3d D:\x\clipped.gdb\Lines_3d_dissolved nid # SINGLE_PART UNSPLIT_LINES Start Time: Tue Jan 19 10:36:18 2016 Sorting Attributes… Dissolving… ERROR 999999: Error executing function. The Geometry […]
Continue reading »Combine touching polygons, keeping all attributes from Class ‘A’ feature
How to automatically merge polygons sharing a common boundary, keeping all attributes from class “A” features? Interactively I would do this in an edit session […]
Continue reading »Open in Explorer from ArcCatalog
It’s bugged me for years that in ArcCatalog there’s no “open this in Explorer” feature. Today I stumbled across a solution that doesn’t involve coding […]
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