Category: Geographic Information Systems

Error 001156. increasing the length of text limit

What is error 001156 in Arcmap? During the merging process, error ‘001156’ occurs when the feature classes or shapefiles that are selected for merging contain fields with conflicting field data types or lengths. For more information, please refer to ArcGIS Help: Understanding field properties, aliases, and table display options. What is the maximum length of

How to create an isotype map, where each symbol represents a number (eg. 50) from data in the attribute table?

What are the 4 types of map symbols? The four most popular thematic map types are choropleth, isopleth, proportional symbol, and dot maps. How do I use symbology in Arcgis? Connect symbol properties to attributes In the Contents pane, highlight a feature layer. On the Feature Layer tab, in the Drawing group, click Symbology .

Combining duplicate points while preserving their associated attributes

How do I combine attributes in ArcGIS? Merge existing features On the Edit tab, in the Features group, click Modify . Expand Construct and click Merge . Click the Existing Feature tab. Click Select. In the pane, add or remove features from the selection. Configure the attributes fields and field values for the merged feature.

How can I add a symbol to a callout label in QGIS?

How do I label callouts in Qgis? Enable the Label Callout Function in QGIS Head back to properties –> labels and select “callouts”. Then make sure the “Draw callouts” option is clicked. You can choose from two line shapes – a simple linear line or Manhattan lines (which transforms angles to a 45 degree line). 

Zonal Statistics tool not working with QGIS?

Why is zonal statistics not working? If the raster cell size is larger than a given boundary, there may be no cells with centroids within the boundary, and hence no statistics or inaccurate statistics are produced for that zone.  How do I add zonal statistics in Qgis? Quote from video: We're going to use the

How to create a grid to do kriging interpolation that correspond to areas in a map having actual observations?

What is kriging a method of interpolation for geographical information systems? Kriging is the method of interpolation deriving from regionalized variable theory. It depends on expressing spatial variation of the property in terms of the variogram, and it minimizes the prediction errors which are themselves estimated. How do you interpolate maps by the kriging method

Resizing polygon features in ArcGIS Desktop based on attribute value?

How do I scale a polygon in ArcGIS? Select the desired polygon(s), and rescale it.Use the Scale button: Start an edit session. Use the Select arrow to select the feature you want to adjust. Click on the Scale button. Hit the “F” key on your keyboard. How do you scale features in ArcGIS? Click the

Can’t import shapefiles into SQL Server, because of Encoding issues

How do I add a Shx file to Qgis? Open QGIS and click LAYER > ADD LAYER > ADD VECTOR LAYER. Select the zipped shapefile. Click OPEN. You have now successfully imported a shapefile into QGIS. How do I add a SHP file to Qgis? Quote from video: Hi everyone this is Amos and now

Reproject before a Spatial Join

How does a spatial join work? A spatial join involves matching rows from the Join Features to the Target Features based on their relative spatial locations. By default, all attributes of the join features are appended to attributes of the target features and copied over to the output feature class. How do I Reproject points

Georeferencing files that are orthogonal to a point on a sphere

What are the three methods of georeferencing? Georeferencing can be seen from different perspectives. It may be classified by type (vector or raster referencing), by identification category (semantic, topological or geometrical) and by application scenario. How do I reduce RMS error in georeferencing? The total error is computed by taking the root mean square (RMS)

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