Geographic Coordinate System to Projected Coordinate System
Hiking & ActivitiesWhat is the difference between a geographic coordinate system (GCS) and a projected coordinate system (PCS) anyways? Here’s the short answer: A GCS defines where the data is located on the earth’s surface. A PCS tells the data how to draw on a flat surface, like on a paper map or a computer screen. How
Can I open and edit a point shapefile from another point shapefile
Hiking & ActivitiesHow do I edit an existing shapefile in ArcGIS? Quote from video: If I wanted to I can also right click on it in the context menu go up to edit. Features. And then start editing that specific layer. How do I create a new shapefile from an existing shapefile? Click the File menu, point
QGIS functionality read off/edited in a Python script
Hiking & ActivitiesHow to write Python script in QGIS? There are two options for writing Processing algorithms using Python. Within QGIS, you can use Create new script in the Scripts menu at the top of the Processing Toolbox to open the Processing Script Editor where you can write your code. How do I run a Python file
Using Select By Attribute on shapefile in ArcPy?
Hiking & ActivitiesHow do you use select by attributes? Steps for using Select By Attributes Click Selection > Select By Attributes to open the Select By Attributes dialog box. Choose the layer to perform the selection against. Specify the selection method. Enter a query expression using one of the following methods: Validate your query expression by clicking
Export shapefile to filegdb with specific projection
Hiking & ActivitiesHow do I export selected features to a shapefile? Right-click the layer that contains the selected features, point to Data > Export Data. Click Export > Selected Features. Make a selection for the coordinate system to use. For the Output feature class text box, click the Browse button and navigate to the existing geodatabase to
Looking for USDA plant hardiness zone shapefile
Hiking & ActivitiesHow do you read planting zones? The lower the number is, the lower the temperatures in that zone. Each zone represents ten degrees of temperature difference. Each zone is also divided into “a” and “b” segments. These represent five degrees of temperature difference. What is PHZM? The 2012 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map is the