Latest Contributions by DarrenWiens2

The symbols generally look worse in ArcMap than when exported. You can get things pretty close in the symbology property editor by zooming in to 400%. See below for an export to PDF. There are some deviations zoomed into 800%, but I'd say it's pretty good. Exported to PDF (100%): PDF (800%): ... View more

You can list feature classes in your gdb. This won't go into feature datasets. If it's in the list, it isn't in a feature dataset. If it's not in the list, presumably it is in a feature dataset (or doesn't exist). Please elaborate if this doesn't address your issue. ... View more

Can you get it to work for a simpler expression (e.g. "EXTRACT(YEAR FROM "DateReported")=2010")? ... View more

Dissolve by both Owner and FID. This will merge together all unique combinations of Owner and FID. ... View more

The quick way to change a projection is to double-click the projection name wherever you happen to be selecting the projection (to bring up the coordinate system properties), make your changes, give it a new name and hit OK. It will be added to a new folder called Custom. To find it easier next time, right-click the custom projection, and Add to Favorites. ... View more

Given enough time, you can do absolutely any statistical tests by hand that a GIS can do for you (kind of defeats the purpose of GIS, though). ... View more

There are many possible solutions to similar errors found here, most of which involve changing your default browser security settings(?). ... View more

What have you tried so far? And, have you tried searching for something like "arcgis excel to shapefile"? ... View more

You decide which fields to include in the cursor. In doing so, you also decide the order of the fields in the cursor. Alternatively, you can include all fields by using '*', which will return all fields in the order found in the attribute table. Consider a feature class with many fields, in any order, but you are interested in only "name", "age", and "address". with arcpy.da.UpdateCursor("myFeatureClass",["name","age","address"]) as cursor: # you set cursor field order here   for row in cursor: # loop through each row in the cursor     print row[0] # name     print row[1] # age     print row[2] # address vs. with arcpy.da.UpdateCursor("myFeatureClass",["name","address","age"]) as cursor: # you set cursor field order here for row in cursor: # loop through each row in the cursor    print row[0] # name    print row[1] # address    print row[2] # age ... View more

I know this is in the Python section, but if all you need is number of days, VBScript handles it much easier (below is for shapefile, but should work similarly for GDB): Now (  ) - [YOURDATE] or years: CInt((Now (  ) - [YOURDATE])/365) ... View more

Line field is the field controlling the line IDs (tells the tool when to end the current line and move to the next line), Sort field sorts the records from first to last (if they aren't in the correct order already) and Close line forces the lines closed (if they aren't already). ... View more

Here's a starting point using Python. This only reads your csv and outputs a polygon for all the points. It gets a little more complicated to create separate polygons for each ID, to write out all the attributes, etc. >>> import csv # import csv library ... polys = [] # list to hold polygon geometry ... with open(r'C:\junk\pointcsv.csv', 'rb') as csvFile: # open csv file ...    csvFile.readline() # skip header ...    csvReader = csv.reader(csvFile) # create csv reader ...    polyPoints = arcpy.Array() # array to hold points ...    for row in csvReader: # read csv ...        polyPoints.append(arcpy.Point(row[2],row[3])) # create point and add to array ...    polys.append(arcpy.Polygon(polyPoints,arcpy.SpatialReference(4326))) # create polygon and add to list ... arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(polys, r'in_memory\polys') # write out polygons Unless you're committed to learning Python, your best bet is probably to add your csv as points, convert to line, then convert to polygon. ... View more

Can you elaborate on that? I don't see how simply changing a variable name could have solved anything, unless it was otherwise originally specified. ... View more

Your lat/long are mixed up in the Excel, unless you're mapping a fire station on Antarctica. ... View more