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A spatial operation in which two or more maps or layers registered to a common coordinate system are superimposed, either digitally or on a transparent material, for the purpose of showing the relationships between features that occupy the same geographic space.

http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/GISDictionary/term/overlay

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Overlay analysis of topographic data

I have a topographic map with Buildings, Roads, Hydro and land use as the prominent layers in polygon format. Also i have newly collected Building polygons of the same area in shape file format. Now i need to have an overlay analysis of Buildings in…
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How to delete overlay within the same feature class?

So, the following scenario: I have plenty of polygons that are within another polygon, all in the same feature class. All of the polygons (the one overlaping the other ones as well as the ones being overlapped) have attributes which are important…
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Raster Weighted Overlay Terminology

In a Arcmap raster weighted overlay, if an input data set is designated as "restricted" will overlay calculations not be performed on the "restricted" areas, and those areas will be included in the output? Or will The overlay function ignore the…
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