topic Re: Adding a polygon to a shp file in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Adding a polygon to a shp file

CurtisShmigelsky1 — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:42:53 GMT

Hi, I have just started using ArcGIS pro 1.1. I have imported a shp file and I would like to draw a polygon on that layer and export the updated shp file. I am able to add points and I am able to export the shp file, but I cannot see how to add a polygon that can be exported one the new shp file. If anyone can help me out on this, that would be awesome.

Thanks

Re: Adding a polygon to a shp file

DarrenWiens2 — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:50:08 GMT

This might sound silly, but is the shapefile you're editing a point or polygon shapefile? Of course, you can only add points to a point shapefile, and polygons to a polygon shapefile.

Re: Adding a polygon to a shp file

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:58:44 GMT

And you had flagged the Spatial Analyst place as your desired location... however, that space applied to raster/grid data which you aren't using. so two links may be of use to you:

the first is for where to post questions and the second is for ArcGIS Pro documentation

Re: Adding a polygon to a shp file

CurtisShmigelsky1 — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:22:57 GMT

Followup dumb question. If I am looking at the gpx file that is getting converted, how can I tell that it a point or polygon file

eg, I have this gpx file as a reference, and use this command to convert it to the shp file..

import arcpy

arcpy.GPXtoFeatures_conversion('c:\\GPX3\\testgpx2.gpx', 'c:\\GPX3\\testgpx2.shp')

--GPS File --

<text>Garmin International</text>

</link>

</metadata>

<trk>

<gpxx:TrackExtension>

<gpxx:DisplayColor>LightGray</gpxx:DisplayColor>

</gpxx:TrackExtension>

</extensions>

</trkpt>

</trkpt>

</trkpt>

</trkpt>

</trkseg>

</trk>

Thanks for the quick reply

Re: Adding a polygon to a shp file

CurtisShmigelsky1 — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:25:57 GMT

Sorry about posting to the wrong place. Is there a way to move the question to the proper category? I was looking over the documentation before, but I was unable to find what I needed.

Re: Adding a polygon to a shp file

DarrenWiens2 — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:30:13 GMT

I'm not a GPX expert, but I'd guess that the <trk> tag indicates track, so a polyline, or maybe polygon, but not waypoint.

The tool itself should know what datatype to create. Can't you wait until after the tool has completed to see what it created?

Re: Adding a polygon to a shp file

CurtisShmigelsky1 — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:50:17 GMT

Ah ok. I need to get my hands on the GPS device. Thanks for clearing this up.

Re: Adding a polygon to a shp file

DanPatterson_Retired — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:22:00 GMT

If you get your hands on the gps, use DNRGPS Application: Minnesota DNR to convert it to something useful like a shapefile of gdb etc

Upload/Download Waypoints,Tracks,Routes	Save as .gdb, .shp, .txt, etc
Calculate shape attributes	Calculate Area, Perimeter, Length-coming soon
Calculate CEP	Determine Circular Error Probability rings for Error estimation
Convert points, lines, polygons
Image Hyperlinking	Create hyperlinks between images and GPS data.
Real-time tracking
Set projections
USB Connectivity