Latest Contributions by SepheFox

The legend just reflects the layers in your map, so you have to set the style in the layer properties under symbology-->quantities ... View more

Let me know if you need any details about how to customize your legend to look the way you want. It's actually quite versatile. ... View more

Hi Jeff, I believe Kevin is referring to the Align Edge tool that he was using previous to your info about Align Features to Shape. That tool does indeed need some part of the features to be touching in order to align them. ... View more

In layout view, in the insert menu, select legend. Click through the legend wizard. ... View more

Also, Mollwiede and Goode Holosine are both in Projected Coordinates-->world. ... View more

For Sweden, I calculated a perimeter of over 16000 miles, which is equivalent to 25000+ km, so your process for calculating geometry may be wrong. ... View more

What method are you using to calculate your area and perimeter? ... View more

I downloaded the data for the whole world as one geodatabase. Perhaps you downloaded each country individually? That would take a while since there are over 250 countries. ... View more

Merge is for combining several feature classes. Are you sure you're not using dissolve? That's what I used. Anyway, when I downloaded the GDAM data, I was able to download a geodatabase. After dissolving and reprojecting the data. I added a field, type = double, called perimeter, and then used calculate geometry to calculate perimeter in miles. The smallest country was the vatican, with a perimeter of about 2 miles. ... View more

I don't know of a better source of free administrative boundaries for the world than GADM, but it contains very few cities. I made a quick calculation of country perimeters using the Mollwiede projection, and I didn't get any zero values for a calculation in miles. I was also going to try it in Goode Homolosine. ... View more

This tool might give you some ideas to try though: Projection Wizard​. The basic idea would be to preserve area, since that would give you the most accurate perimeter. ... View more

But even the smallest country has a perimeter of at least a mile, and cities would have some area greater than zero? What method are you using to calculate? ... View more

Good luck! ... View more

My thinking is that they have moved on to 10.3 now, and so that's the upgrade they are offering. You could get e student version of that for free here: ArcGIS for Desktop Student Trial ... View more

Oh, it's an education version? You know, those are free right? ... View more