How-to Archives « Yukon GIS

How to debug definition queries in ArcMap?

Posted on 2017-Mar-07 by matt

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 […]

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Join Jeopardy

Posted on 2016-Nov-04 by matt

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 […]

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Elevation Mask

Posted on 2016-Nov-01 by matt

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 […]

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Projecting to Yukon Albers

Posted on 2016-May-24 by matt

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: […]

ArcMap, How-to

North Arrows and True North

Posted on 2016-Apr-12 by matt

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 […]

ArcMap, Cartography, How-to

Use Unsplit Lines instead of Dissolve for 3D lines

Posted on 2016-Jan-19 by matt

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 […]

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Combine touching polygons, keeping all attributes from Class “A” feature

Posted on 2015-Dec-11 by matt

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 […]

ArcMap, Geoprocessing, How-to

Open in Explorer from ArcCatalog

Posted on 2015-Nov-18 by matt

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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Merging lakes split on YT border

Posted on 2015-Nov-12 by matt

Turned out to be quite involved, but now have an automated solution. How to automatically merge polygons sharing a common boundary, keeping all attributes from […]

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