topic Projection and cell size problems with TIF files in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/projection-and-cell-size-problems-with-tif-files/m-p/136369#M7846 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am using ArcGISDesktop 9.3.1 SP2 Build 4000 (ArcView Licence) and am trying to run a vector to raster conversion.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have a shapefile with Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_ETRS_1989 which contains a vector polygon grid. Each polygon is a square of dimension 0.05 decimal degrees and contains a numerical attribute which I want to use to generate a raster layer (of cell size 0.05 degrees).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>When I run the Polygon to Raster tool from the Conversion Tools/To Raster toolset the generated output locates correctly if I generate an output GRID or IMG file (although the Spatial Reference of the output raster is &lt;undefined&gt; in both cases).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>When I run this same tool but generate a TIF as the output, the resulting raster has a cell size of (1,1) despite me setting the value to 0.05 in the tool parameters, and is located in the wrong position.&nbsp; I've attached a zip containing the shapefile and the results.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Has anyone had similar problems and can explain why is this happening and whether there is anything I can do about this?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Janette</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:57:01 GMT JanetteLee 2011-09-02T08:57:01Z Projection and cell size problems with TIF files https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/projection-and-cell-size-problems-with-tif-files/m-p/136369#M7846 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am using ArcGISDesktop 9.3.1 SP2 Build 4000 (ArcView Licence) and am trying to run a vector to raster conversion.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have a shapefile with Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_ETRS_1989 which contains a vector polygon grid. Each polygon is a square of dimension 0.05 decimal degrees and contains a numerical attribute which I want to use to generate a raster layer (of cell size 0.05 degrees).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>When I run the Polygon to Raster tool from the Conversion Tools/To Raster toolset the generated output locates correctly if I generate an output GRID or IMG file (although the Spatial Reference of the output raster is &lt;undefined&gt; in both cases).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>When I run this same tool but generate a TIF as the output, the resulting raster has a cell size of (1,1) despite me setting the value to 0.05 in the tool parameters, and is located in the wrong position.&nbsp; I've attached a zip containing the shapefile and the results.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Has anyone had similar problems and can explain why is this happening and whether there is anything I can do about this?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Janette</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:57:01 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/projection-and-cell-size-problems-with-tif-files/m-p/136369#M7846 JanetteLee 2011-09-02T08:57:01Z