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Open Source Tool capable of reading Esri File Geodatabase (.gdb)?
I have an ESRI File Geodatabase (.gdb) file that I would like to convert to shapefile (or any other non-proprietary format). Are there any Open Source tools to do so?
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Can QGIS open KMZ files?
I know I can add KML files once I have unzipped the KMZ files, but is there a way to open KMZ files directly?
When I try to open a kmz file on QGIS 1.8.0 on Windows XP, through the all files filter, it does not accept it as a valid format.
Am I…
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Fastest way to count the number of features in a feature class?
With the introduction of the Data Access module in arcpy (30x faster search cursors), I want to know if counting features matching sql criteria is faster than the traditional MakeTableView + GetCount methodology?
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Polygons and MultiPolygons should follow the right-hand rule
http://geojsonlint.com/ I get error
Polygons and MultiPolygons should follow the right-hand rule
I used it for past 3 years without any problem with my old GeoJSON file.
Now geojsonlint enforce the right hand rule, how to fix the problem.
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GeoJSON Styling information
As far as I can see there is nothing in the GeoJSON standard to store styling information, i.e. line colours, thicknesses etc.
Am I missing something or is this just something that GeoJSON doesn't deal with?
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Getting boundary of raster image as polygon in ArcMap
I have a rectangular raster image in ArcMap.
How can I produce a polygon which is just the extent of the raster image?
That is, I want to have a polygon layer with a single quadrilateral which is the edge of the image.
I've tried simply doing a…
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Getting polygon areas using GeoPandas
Given a GeoPandas's GeoDataFrame containing a series of polygons, I would like to get the area in km sq of each feature in my list.
This is a pretty common problem, and the usual suggested solution in the past has been to use shapely and pyproj…
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Getting TopologyException: Input geom 1 is invalid which is due to self-intersection in R?
The 'TopologyException: Input geom 1 is invalid' self-intersection error which arises from invalid polygon geometries has been widely discussed. However, I haven't found a convenient solution on the web that solely relies on R functionality.
For…
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Connecting to PostGIS database from ArcMap for display and query without ArcSDE?
How can I connect to a PostGIS database from ArcMap using ArcGIS Desktop 9.3 and later?
I would like to be able to perform spatially enabled queries and receive the results back (e.g. spatial and non-spatial joins, filtering etc.) rather than just…
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Creating transparent hillshade?
I get elegant transparent hillshades via a combination gdal and convert. Compare to grey-based hillshade commonly used, such transparent hillshades are very cool because they can be placed between the map background and other upper layers (roads,…
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Performing reverse clip in ArcMap
Is there a way to perform a 'reverse' of the clip function in ArcMap?
I am not exactly sure how to explain this so here is a diagram:
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Clipping raster in R
I am building a map for the northeastern U.S.A. The map background needs to be either an altitude map or a mean annual temperature map. I have two rasters from Worldclim.org which give me these variables but I need to clip them to the extent of the…
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Converting .shp into .gpx using QGIS
I would like to convert .shp into .gpx.
Using GIS, I open my shapefile and I tried to "save as" gpx but it gives an OGR error:
creation of field ObjectId failed (OGR error: Field of name 'ObjectId'
is not supported in GPX schema. Use…
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Extract Raster Value into Polygon Attribute
I have Raster Data for a State which has Elevation Data in its pixels. I also have Vector layer which has the 300 divisions of State. what I need is, I want to get the average elevation value of particular division from the raster data using…
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