topic Editing the output of feature to polygon in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/editing-the-output-of-feature-to-polygon/m-p/510518#M16994 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello guy!</P><P></P><P>I'm having a trouble in editing the output of feature to polygon tool.Because my input feature was a closed line and most of the line has intersection so the output generated has a lot of new small polygon created during the process.This makes my work more complicated in the next step of joining the the attribute because the data comes with a repetition of information.</P><P></P><P>My question is there a tool to clean those small polygon generated either by removing or merging them to original ones.Or a different way which i can use to create a polygon from the line feature without having that problem.</P><P>Thanks...!</P><P></P><P>Kelvin.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 22 Jul 2015 09:36:36 GMT KelvinMwakomo 2015-07-22T09:36:36Z Editing the output of feature to polygon https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/editing-the-output-of-feature-to-polygon/m-p/510518#M16994 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello guy!</P><P></P><P>I'm having a trouble in editing the output of feature to polygon tool.Because my input feature was a closed line and most of the line has intersection so the output generated has a lot of new small polygon created during the process.This makes my work more complicated in the next step of joining the the attribute because the data comes with a repetition of information.</P><P></P><P>My question is there a tool to clean those small polygon generated either by removing or merging them to original ones.Or a different way which i can use to create a polygon from the line feature without having that problem.</P><P>Thanks...!</P><P></P><P>Kelvin.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 22 Jul 2015 09:36:36 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/editing-the-output-of-feature-to-polygon/m-p/510518#M16994 KelvinMwakomo 2015-07-22T09:36:36Z Re: Editing the output of feature to polygon https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/editing-the-output-of-feature-to-polygon/m-p/510519#M16995 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You can use the dissolve tool with no attributes selected to dissolve you polygons based on contiguity. <A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00170000005n000000" title="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00170000005n000000">ArcGIS Help 10.1</A> </P><P></P><P>Another option is using the Minimum Bounding Geometry Tool - Convex Hull.&nbsp; <A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00170000003q000000" title="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00170000003q000000">ArcGIS Help 10.1</A> </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:51:46 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/editing-the-output-of-feature-to-polygon/m-p/510519#M16995 IanMurray 2015-07-22T14:51:46Z Re: Editing the output of feature to polygon https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/editing-the-output-of-feature-to-polygon/m-p/510520#M16996 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>If you have an original set (a set that generally covers the areas) you could use a spatial join then a dissolve </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:09:31 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/editing-the-output-of-feature-to-polygon/m-p/510520#M16996 WesMiller 2015-07-22T15:09:31Z Re: Editing the output of feature to polygon https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/editing-the-output-of-feature-to-polygon/m-p/510521#M16997 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks <A href="https://community.esri.com/migrated-users/20198">Ian Hogan</A> and <A href="https://community.esri.com/migrated-users/59200">Wes Cordova</A></P><P>I see spatial join and dissolve tool give me what i want, thanks guys..!</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 23 Jul 2015 09:56:53 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/editing-the-output-of-feature-to-polygon/m-p/510521#M16997 KelvinMwakomo 2015-07-23T09:56:53Z