Geographic Information Systems Weekly Newsletter - Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Top new questions this week: How to add Attributes to a polygon with arcpy I have a question about arcpy. I want to create a polygon FeatureClass with attributes. The code below is just test-code that generates some polygons for speed testing. I want to add some additional ... arcpy polygon cursor   asked by gnurrr 4 votes answered by Richard Fairhurst 4 votes Performing a 'far analysis' using ArcGIS for Desktop? I would like to perform an analysis that is the inverse of Near_analysis for ArcGIS. Instead of my result being NEAR_DIST and NEAR_FID, I'd like each feature to have a FAR_DIST and FAR_FID populated ... arcgis-desktop python arcpy arcgis-10.1   asked by Emil Brundage 4 votes answered by Stephen Lead 3 votes How to Install QGIS 2.6 plugins offline "Due to various IT policies at my workplace, QGIS is installed on a machine (Window 7, 64bits and QGIS 2.6) that is not connected to the internet. I wish to install a couple of QGIS plugins on this ... qgis qgis-plugins offline   asked by Cyril_Qt 3 votes answered by AndreJ 3 votes Querying slope data using raster calculator: why are all results true? I am using ArcGIS 10.2.2. From a DEM, I have created a new raster showing slope using the slope tool. The color scheme was automatically classified into 9 tiers. What I want to do is query this raster ... arcgis-desktop raster arcgis-10.2 raster-calculator slope   asked by inverted introvert 3 votes answered by mattmar 2 votes Transform shapefile to WGS:84 (EPSG: 4326) in Qgis I am struggeling with an enoying problem here. I received several shapefiles from an colleague that he told me is in WGS:84. If I look at the metadata in Qgis it tells me the following: In layer ... qgis shapefile transformation   asked by user2386786 3 votes answered by Bernd V. 4 votes Comparing floor and roof areas using QGIS? I am pretty new in this GIS topic and I would really appreciate if someone can help me with this problem. I am doing a research for university that shall show the available roof area for ... qgis vector layers attributes area   asked by MLGermany 3 votes Generic term for CRS axes? We're making a light web front to a database, and I saw this in a test screenshot: Despite those coordinates being nowhere near North America, the "latitude/longitude" label for those coordinates ... coordinate-system terminology   asked by Mintx 3 votes answered by martin f 5 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: How to Start Web Mapping? I want to start working on a web map at work to map some of our statistics by city. I have an idea, but I'm not exactly sure where to start. Are there any definitive resources that provide step ... web-mapping learning-resources   asked by Brian L 62 votes answered by underdark 41 votes How to dissolve overlapping polygons? I have a query regarding the dissolving of polygon features in ArcGIS 9.3. I only have the bare-bones license and an extremely basic knowledge of VB. I have a large shapefile with around 4500 ... arcgis-desktop arcgis-9.3 dissolve   asked by user1762 7 votes answered by MWrenn 11 votes Can you answer these? Reverse clip with ogr2ogr I'm fairly new to GIS, working on a project where I overlay counties on google maps, and overlay cities on top. I'm using fusion tables, and running into Z-index issues. To get around this I'm hoping ... google-maps google-maps-api ogr2ogr google-fusion-tables   asked by TinyJ 1 vote Help getting a Mathematical Representation within a Layer's Attribute Table I'v been playing around with Vector Coding and was wondering if there was any Plugins out there that might let me represent Vectors within a layer as it's Mathematic attributes in the Layer's ... qgis python vector   asked by Avishai Roif 2 votes Optimize Code for Spatialdata intersection I am working with ArcGis with c# and I Face some major issue and I do not reach why that issue is occurs. I am creating a shape file using ArcGis SDK which is created successfully. I have 500000+ ... arcgis-desktop arcobjects c#   asked by Harsh Desai 1 vote

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