Adding a polygon to a shp file

[CurtisShmigelsky1]

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

[DarrenWiens2]

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.

[CurtisShmigelsky1]

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 --

  <metadata>

    <link href="http://www.garmin.com">

      <text>Garmin International</text>

    </link>

    <time>2014-11-18T22:22:29Z</time>

    <bounds maxlat="53.0227030813694" maxlon="-112.21157192252576" minlat="53.014686880633235" minlon="-112.34274895861745" />

  </metadata>

  <trk>

    <name>Page 4a</name>

    <extensions>

      <gpxx:TrackExtension>

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

      </gpxx:TrackExtension>

    </extensions>

    <trkseg>

      <trkpt lat="59.18684988094984" lon="-124.25435411600436">

        <ele>785.04999999999995</ele>

        <time>2014-11-06T17:42:44Z</time>

      </trkpt>

      <trkpt lat="59.18696594853597" lon="-124.25535602357907">

        <ele>767.75</ele>

        <time>2014-11-06T17:42:51Z</time>

      </trkpt>

      <trkpt lat="59.186522804454874" lon="-124.25567231790153">

        <ele>764.87</ele>

        <time>2014-11-06T17:42:52Z</time>

      </trkpt>

      <trkpt lat="59.186340682494375" lon="-124.25500054618719">

        <ele>761.5</ele>

        <time>2014-11-06T17:42:53Z</time>

      </trkpt>

    </trkseg>

  </trk>

Thanks for the quick reply

[DarrenWiens2]

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?

[CurtisShmigelsky1]

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

[DanPatterson_Retired]

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

[DanPatterson_Retired]

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:

1. GeoNet Community Structure Documentation | ArcGIS for Desktop
2. Documentation | ArcGIS for Desktop

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

[CurtisShmigelsky1]

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.