Questions tagged [arcmap]

ArcMap is a piece of software within the ArcGIS suite. It is utilized for cartographic production as well as geospatial analysis.

Overview

ArcMap is used primarily to view, edit, create, and analyze geospatial data. ArcMap allows the user to explore data within a data set, symbolize features accordingly, and create maps.

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ArcMap 10.2 Geoprocessing overwrite

I have an locations shapefile that I am trying to overwrite. I have enabled the geoprocessing options to overwrite all geoprocessing operations. I opened the analysis tool that I created the original locations shapefile from and tried to rerun the…
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Error Connecting to Personal Geodatabase: 'System.Transactions.Diagnostics.DiagnosticTrace'

A Customer of mine has a Problem with my in vb.net developed extension in ArcMap. The extension is installed on a Windows 8.1 with ArcMap 10.3. First it worked fine, but now (since one week) there comes an error from the…
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ArcMap 10.2 Create Histogram of Raster Values NOT Color Values

I'm working on making histograms of pixel values for several rasters to compare them and produce reasonably good graphics. I am using the Spatial analyst toolbar to create a histogram for the rasters but what it gives me is a histogram of the color…
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Get token expiration time From ArcGIS Online

I am using following method to sign in to ArcGIS portal and get the token public static IArcGISSingleSignon SingleSignon { get { if (_singleSignon == null) _singleSignon = new…
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How do I get the DropDown selection from a Command Button in ArcObjects?

I have a dropdown and a Icommand button in the same toolbar in ArcMap. I can't seem to get access to the dropdowns selection when I am using the command button. How can I find the dropdown so I can find out what the user just selected? …
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How to Convert ILayer to IPolygon In ArcObjects

Having trouble converting an Ilayer to an IPolygon. I am developing a toolbar for ArcMap and I grab a layer via code from the side table of contents. The Layer is a Polygon, but the code won't convert it to a IPolygon. Can anyone help me out? This…
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find lat/long point in a hdf5

I have an HDF5 files, global coverage of temperature. The file was converted from netcdf. The conversion process set longitude from 0 to 360 and additionally flipped the map upside down, so north is now south. I have used HDFView and I can display…
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ArcObjects Add-in closes ArcMap when JFrame is closed

My Add-in opens a new frame for user input. When this frame is closed, ArcMap also closes. I have the DefaultCloseOperation set to DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE. My code inside the add-in button creates an instance of my GUI class. public void onClick() throws…
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Deleting an individual row in Arc Map based on a value with Python

I am having difficulty deleting just a single row in a shapefile attribute table with Python script. What I would like to do is delete any row that has ID value = 0. Whith the scripts I've been using all rows get deleted. I have tried numerous…
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Importing large table into ArcMAP

I have a table with >2,000,000 rows containing the latitude and longitude (decimal degrees) of many bird count observations. The columns are are listed as "strings", even though many contain only numbers, and I'm unable to create a new field to…
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Keep smallest value for each unique ID with arcpy/numpy

I've got a ESRI Point Shape file with (amongst others) a nMSLINK field and a DIAMETER field. The MSLINK is not unique, because of a spatial join. What I want to achieve is to keep only the features in the shapefile that have a unique MSLINK and the…
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How to (programmatically) figure out the path of the current ArcMap document with VBA

I would like a Visual Basic for Application Function which shows the path of the current document. For example if ArcMap is displaying map.mxd I need to display its path. I found only some examples for querying the path of the datasources of the…
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python-in-arcmap, how to query using row ID and look for field values from another feature class

I have a feature class that needs to update , name it as big_file, it has a field name 'ID_old' which we will use to do the query. another field is 'Sum_value', which needs to be filled with sum of a field value of another file. so I have one list…
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When Using Split Lines at Points in ArcMap, Preserve Sequential Order of Resulting Features based on Geometric Direction of Parent Features

'I have a line feature class and a point feature class. Each line feature’s geometric direction is significant (it matters what it is). The point features do not always fall on line features' vertices (but some do). I want to Split Lines at…
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name out_raster to geodatabase in ESRI arcpy

Just started using arcpy on ArcMap 10.2.2 Some modules - eg Hillshade - do not accept output raster names as parameters. I want to be able to specify the name of the output raster that appears in the ArcMap session's Table of Contents AND the…
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