topic Re: Attribute table in 911 GIS Questions

Attribute table

JenTaylor1 — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 01:13:07 GMT

I have a shape file for land use coverage and it only has the grid IDs in the attribute table but I need the land use names to be associated with the grid ID. I need to assign each ID a name but there is over 7000 records. I am wondering how I would go about doing this. For example if grid ID 1 is open space how do I get that to show up in the attribute table without copy and pasting for each record. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance!

Re: Attribute table

OwenEarley — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 01:46:18 GMT

If there are only a limited number of different land uses then:

Create a new field in your shapefile to hold the text values.
Use Select by Attributes to select all features with ID = 1
Right-click on your new field and Field Calculator to set the value to "Open Space"
Repeat 2 and 3 for all of the other land use types

Alternatively, if you have table containing your id values and descriptions then you could join the data and calculate them all at once.

Re: Attribute table

JenTaylor1 — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:41:36 GMT

Thanks! Appreciate your help!:)