Latest Contributions by JimCousins

Have you explored pasting as an enhanced metafile? I find that these are pretty clear. ... View more

Hello, Jessica.  Yes. When you add your image file (jpg) to the map, it should show up in the georeferencing toolbar as the image of interest. If not, use the drop down menu to select it. Set your map extent to the approximate area of interest, and then use the drop down menu for "Georeferncing" to select "Fit to display". This will put your non-georeferenced image in the general vicinity of the correct location, and from there, you can add control points to place it correctly. Regards, Jim ... View more

Hi, Jeanette.   What happens if you insert it as a picture element (Device independent bitmap, or an enhanced metafile)? Regards, Jim ... View more

Tom,   You can open the picture in the standard windows photo viewer, rotate it if necessary, (although it rotated my test image for me) and save it with a different name. The photo should drop into your map with the correct orientation. Regards, Jim ... View more

Perhaps I am still not understanding your goal. Can you do the union to maintain the boundaries of the 3 features, and add an identifying attribute like “Feature set 1” for the territory, and add another attribute “Type” and identify water or land. Then set symbology based on the “unique values, many fields” of these attributes? I am assuming you will have multiple territories, but this would allow you to differentiate between land and water, and between territories. If I am still not helping you, perhaps you should re-post with your full explanation, as a question with this many responses is typically assumed answered. Best of Luck, Manuel. Jim Jim Cousins GIS Project Scientist S.S. Papadopulos & Associates, Inc.<http://www.sspa.com/> 7944 Wisconsin Avenue | Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Direct: (301) 500-2271 | Office: (301) 718-8900 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL: This email and any attachments are intended only for the addressee(s) and may be confidential, proprietary, privileged, or otherwise protected by law from disclosure or use by a third party. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message and its attachments, and destroy any electronic or hard copies that you may have created. ... View more

Now I see. That is a different problem. Essentially you want a multipart feature – one row in the attribute table, that retains the star shape inside the square shape, and when you select either one of them, both are selected, as they are parts of the same object. The problem is that one feature completely contains the other. I do not know of a way to accomplish that. What are you attempting to accomplish? Perhaps there is a different workflow solution. jim Jim Cousins GIS Project Scientist S.S. Papadopulos & Associates, Inc.<http://www.sspa.com/> 7944 Wisconsin Avenue | Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Direct: (301) 500-2271 | Office: (301) 718-8900 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL: This email and any attachments are intended only for the addressee(s) and may be confidential, proprietary, privileged, or otherwise protected by law from disclosure or use by a third party. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message and its attachments, and destroy any electronic or hard copies that you may have created. ... View more

If you used the MERGE tool, Data Management Tools >> General >> Merge, the help states: Merge (Data Management) This tool will not split or alter the geometries from the input datasets. All features from the input datasets will remain intact in the output dataset, even if the features overlap. To combine, or planarize, feature geometries, use the Union tool, Analysis Tools >>Overlay>>Union Perhaps you have not changed the symbology for the result to Categories>>Unique values, which will show the 2 features with different color fills? Be sure to set the drawing order to put your "Star" polygon on top. Regards, Jim ... View more

Your Tobacco shapefile has an incorrect projection assigned to it. Displaying it on its own and looking at the decimal Lat/Lon coordinates returns -91.686869  36.619553 Decimal Degrees. Looking at the attribute for that point, the LOCATION field contains 41.768365835791016, -87.68830090772079 Decimal Degrees. Your Chicago City Outline looks fine. Posting your Arson csv X,Y based on both the X,Y state plane attributes and the Latitude, Longitude attributes drops them in the correct location. You could save your tobacco table to a stand alone csv or dbf file, and post it based on the Latitude/Longitude attribute columns, and get this to align with your other data. Regards, Jim ... View more

I am afraid I can not help you there, as I have always saved the links out to file when necessary, and have no experience with loading links from a georeferenced file using aux.xml. Perhaps a service pack has altered this.  Sorry I couldn't help you. Jim ... View more

Basically, WGS 84 World Mercator is a conformal map projection, meaning it preserves shape (not area). The UTM projection is limited to a small area with a defined maximum distortion, so the area calculation should have minimal distortion within the zone. This is a very broad answer, and I am certain that others will expand on it. Regards, Jim ... View more

This is the design of the tool. Perhaps because you do not want the same control points in place for a second image that is being georeferenced. If you need to retain your links, you can save them out to a file, which can be loaded back in whenever you wish. Regards, Jim ... View more

Great, I am glad that you have solution! Best Regard, Jim ... View more

A few issues, Sambul: 1) the image appears not to be in a coordinate system, as the lower left corner is at 0,0. This is what I expect of any image file brought into ArcGIS without a defined coordinate system. 2) The shapefile you provided only has "wwis_out.shp" in it. Shapefiles are made of multiple files that define it's geometry, attributes, etc. You need to include all files with the "wwis_out" name in it (ie: the .dbf, the .shx, the .sbn, etc.) 3) Where should these files show up? ie: in UTM zone 13 North, NAD83, or Geographic coordinates, WGS 84, etc. Are you certain of either of the files being in the correct location? A bit more information will get you some help. Regards, Jim ... View more

I am not too clear what your goal is. Are you trying to dissolve features to make larger polygons based on your numeric attribute, or something else? ... View more