topic Re: coloring in contour lines in ArcGIS Spatial Analyst Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/coloring-in-contour-lines/m-p/344932#M4878 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You would need to convert the polylines to polygons to fill them with color.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Another option would be to take your surface raster and reclassify the values to an integer raster.&nbsp; You could them symbolize the groupings by varying colors, or you could convert to polygon to symbolize each contour value.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:17:06 GMT TimothyHales 2012-04-02T18:17:06Z coloring in contour lines https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/coloring-in-contour-lines/m-p/344931#M4877 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>hi all, i have a quick question about how to fill in contour lines with color.&nbsp; here are the steps so far that i have done: first i created an interpolated surface for my data using IDW, then i used the create contour tool to make contour lines for specific areas for my interpolated surface.&nbsp; i then grouped these contours into a single drawing and converted them to a shape file.&nbsp; what i have are color coded contour lines.&nbsp; however, i would like to fill these lines in with color so each contour is a solid color.&nbsp; any advice would be greatly appreciated.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>andrew</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:46:18 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/coloring-in-contour-lines/m-p/344931#M4877 AndrewCalhoun 2012-04-02T17:46:18Z Re: coloring in contour lines https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/coloring-in-contour-lines/m-p/344932#M4878 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You would need to convert the polylines to polygons to fill them with color.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Another option would be to take your surface raster and reclassify the values to an integer raster.&nbsp; You could them symbolize the groupings by varying colors, or you could convert to polygon to symbolize each contour value.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:17:06 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/coloring-in-contour-lines/m-p/344932#M4878 TimothyHales 2012-04-02T18:17:06Z Re: coloring in contour lines https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/coloring-in-contour-lines/m-p/344933#M4879 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>thanks for the advice.&nbsp; my problem is now solved</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:56:29 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/coloring-in-contour-lines/m-p/344933#M4879 AndrewCalhoun 2012-04-03T18:56:29Z