Automatically summarize area of polygons within polygon
I read similair questions but I couldnt figure out the answer yet.. What I have: -A fire polygon set with information about each year and the area -A second polygon set consisting of a lot of small...
View ArticleERROR 999999: Error executing function. Can't build VAT for multiband or...
I get this error when attempting to automate my geoprocessing in the console: Quote: Runtime error Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 9, in <module> File "c:\program...
View ArticleIssues with geocoding...
Greetings Everyone, I am not as technical as most of you. I am a simple epidemiologist attempting to map data. Several weeks ago ESRI decided to disable the geocoding feature in ArcGIS and now I have...
View ArticleConverting polygons to raster that are usable for Raster Calculator
Hi, When using the Polygon to Raster tool is there any way to specify the extent of the result grid? The result I'm getting is only cells where there are polygons and no cells where there is no...
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Many to One Join (Possible?)
Hello, I am currently working on an assignment that requires me to join a "Georgia County" shapefile to 243 geocoded points (state projects). I have knowledge on joining "one to many" which could give...
View ArticleTool validator value list append doesn't work?
Hi Folks, if you put the following code into a script tool 'toolValidator' class 'updateParameters' method, it only puts 'fee' in the list (no error is thrown). Code: self.params[0].filter.list =...
View ArticleProblems with Copy and then Adding Field
Folks - I'm using Win7 and ArcGIS 10.1 SP1. I have a model that I built years ago in 9.3.1 that has always worked flawlessly. Now that model crashes ArcCatolog when it tries to add a field to a...
View ArticlePolygon to line distance
Dear All, I have a dataset that has all the buildings (polygon), central line of the roads (with road width). I want to create four fields in the attribute table that will store (1) distance of closest...
View ArticleBuffer: Euclidean vs. Geodesic distance
I read the Help Doc on Buffering, regarding distances using Euclidean vs. Geodesic units. I get the concept. But where in the Tool is this choice made? Or was the Help Doc attempting to tell me that it...
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Feature does not correspond with base map
Hi, I am working on a LULC Project in Austria and got several shapefiles from different sources. I really have issues to get them together for Analysis. The attached sreenshot sums it up pretty good....
View ArticleGP Performance: Number of map layers in mxd, Foreground vs. Background...
Please help me understand how background/foreground processing performance relates to the number of map layers in the open ArcMap Map Document. Here is an observation that I'm trying to make sense of:...
View ArticleNo geoprocessing tools will open in new 10.2.1 install from search window
Just installed 10.2.1 on a brand new Win7 64bit machine. In both ArcMap and ArcCatalog, I can't open any geoprocessing tools from the search window. If I go to the search for tools and search for one,...
View ArticleMultiple Historic Topo Maps to Georeference
I have multiple historic topo raster images [.jpg] which I have georeferenced to the ESRI standard topo base map and have created .mxd files for each map using ArcGIS Desktop 10.2. I want to tile these...
View ArticleCreating text in "text display" expression
I am in the process of creating an "text display" expression. If I have a field in my attribute table (ex. [County]) that I want to show up in a pop up display, is there a way for me to insert my own...
View ArticleAliases for creating SpatialReference objects (Python)
Hi Folks, Either one of the following statements works to create a spatial reference object (or string) for uses such as calling 'CreatFeatureclass' tool: Code:...
View ArticleOLE DB Connection File in a Model for other users
Before the change at 10.1, I was able to package up my OLE DB (Jet) connection file for Access in a coordinated folder along with a scratchworkspace GDB and other SDE connection files and distribute a...
View ArticleDefine Projection crashes when imported into Modelbuilder
Hey everyone, I've built a model that uses the Points to Line tool, however Points to Line isn't coded to take on the coordinate system of the input data, nor can you change the environment settings to...
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Ordinary Least Square script/tool won't recognize projected input feature class
Running a model that iterates through three geostatistical analyses(kriging, spline, idw) and compares them on an NED dataset and outputs them into tables. Problem is when I project the sample points I...
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Split Line at Point not splitting where points are
Just wondering if anyone else has seen this / has any quick suggestions. I'm currently using ArcGIS 10.0 I am running the 'Split Line At Point' tool in a script. My inputs are in a feature dataset - I...
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