Thanks and I received the jpg image.
These touching cases are very much of the effect of raster/grid to vector/polygon conversion. You may consider the following options:
1. There is an Aggregate Polygons tool (Cartography - Generalization in ArcGIS 10; previously in Data Management - Generalization). You can try a small distance and see if the touching polygons become connected.
2. Or, if you want each group of touching polygons to merge into a new polygon, you can use the Buffer tool with a VERY small buffer distance (0.2 meters?). The resulting shape will be slightly enlarged and the corners become round, but the touching polygons will be connected with a small "width".
3. If you want the touching polygons to become disconnected, you can use the Buffer tool with a VERY small negative buffer distance (-0.2 meters?). Each resulting shape will be slightly smaller.
You can actually use the zero near_dist to select the touching polygons and apply one of the above ways to them only. Hope the slight gain or loss in shape_area is acceptable.
Hope this helps.
