Latest Contributions by SepheFox

First use the Create Feature Class tool, from the Data Management toolbox to create a polyline feature class. Then, with the empty feature class added to your map, right click it, and select edit. You can then draw you line using the editing tools. You may want to set your snapping to snap to other features , such as points and roads, and you may want to use the trace tool to follow along the roads. ... View more

f it helps, the line ends that need to be joined will always be very close together to begin with, they just won't be touching, so any procedure that involves performing an action based on proximity would probably work. ... View more

You did what? ... View more

It's my understanding that he wants to snap the line endpoint to each other, rather then the counties, per se. Can you clarify that John? It's an important difference. ... View more

As I read it, the Snap tool doesn't densify the line, but does change the geometry. ... View more

Hi John, I believe the snap tool is run on the entire set of features just like extend line. Check out the link I posted. ... View more

The extend line tool may help you, but you could also try the Snap tool from the editing toolset (ArcGIS Help 10.1 ). The extra utility of this tool is the ability to snap to line endpoints, which you might find more useful. ... View more

Hi La Sinh, that's a bit of a broad question. What have you done/tried so far? Essentially, you'll need to choose a basemap, which you can do from the add data button, and then create line and point features classes, and digitize the attractions and route as features. ... View more

Chris, you can get the evaluation version here: ArcGIS for Desktop | Free Trial. In regards to your laptop/desktop issue. You could use your desktop to access your laptop remotely (Connect to another computer using Remote Desktop Connection - Windows Help), or you could simply hook your laptop up to all those monitors. ... View more

Just to belabor my point ( ), I ran into a great example last night, using the Tabulate tool for raster data that was assigned GCS WGS83. The tool tabulates area of the different raster values for specified zones. Unfortunately, with a geographic projection, the area was calculated in Degrees--totally meaningless! In order to get a useful result, the raster had to be reprojected to a projected coordinate system using meters as a unit. Then the result was in square meters--something you can actually work with. ... View more

Chris, you can get the trial version of advanced, as Nicola says, but If you're going to buy it, the basic level won't work for you because you won't be able to use the parcel editor unless you get a higher license level. ... View more

Did you look and see if the Cadastral Editor is there? As Jayanta mentioned, this is what parcel editor was called before version10. ... View more

A watershed is just a name for the area that flows to the same point. The Amazon Basin is a watershed, for example. The point is, you need to define your analysis area to some kind of border. Think about it. A country? A county? A state? Some other region? This is critical to your analysis. Otherwise, how will you report your results? "i did an analysis for a nameless rectangle of the earth". It has to be your first step. When you decide, you can search online, or someone here can help you find the data. Once you get a polygon that defines your analysis area, you will need to combine it with your protected areas. The Identity tool in the Analysis toolset will do this. You might just have to do some merging or dissolving so that you end up with only two polygons--one will be the protected area in the region, and the other will be all the unprotected area in the region. Now get some sleep and read this whole thread again in the morning. ... View more

Yeah, Darren was right (he usually is ), zonal statistics won't give you what your looking for in this case. ... View more

So this is where you're going to have to define your area of analysis. A watershed or catchment basin perhaps? Maybe a region of some kind? Get a shapefile for the region, and then run an Identity, using the region as the input, and the protected areas as the identity. This will combine them. You might have to do a dissolve at this point to get just two polygons-inside and outside of protected areas. Then run the same process. This time the tabulate will have two rows--one for each polygon. ... View more