Hello everyone
I am a first time forum poster so Im a little new to everything so I apologize in advance if I foul things up. I am a college student who is using ArcGIS to complete my senior thesis and I have encountered a problem. I am still a novice so the answer might be obvious. My problem is that I have temperature data that is in a raster format and I am trying to convert it to vector. When I used the conversion tool it generated the polygon but it did not carry over any of the temperatures. The temperature data has a resolution of about 800 meters and it does cover a large area. It spans the west coast of the united states. I was wondering how to resolve the issue of the tool not carrying my temperature to the new vector format? Could a join/relate be a way?
Thank you
Cam
I am a first time forum poster so Im a little new to everything so I apologize in advance if I foul things up. I am a college student who is using ArcGIS to complete my senior thesis and I have encountered a problem. I am still a novice so the answer might be obvious. My problem is that I have temperature data that is in a raster format and I am trying to convert it to vector. When I used the conversion tool it generated the polygon but it did not carry over any of the temperatures. The temperature data has a resolution of about 800 meters and it does cover a large area. It spans the west coast of the united states. I was wondering how to resolve the issue of the tool not carrying my temperature to the new vector format? Could a join/relate be a way?
Thank you
Cam
But:
You could contour the raster data and use the resulting contour lines to your map (it will have the contour value as an attribute).
You could convert the raster to points. Based on your comment, you would have a grid of points at approx 800m spacing with the raster cell value as an attribute.
If you simply want to display the information, what about simply classifying the raster and displaying that on your map?
Do you really need vector data, if so why? If you are doing further analysis, provide some more information, and you will get a more targeted response.
Best Regards,
Jim