ArcPy geoprocessing package

Esri has introduced in ArcGIS 10 a new geoprocessing package ArcPy, which is based on Python – a popular open scripting language. This module is supposed to replace the previously used in ArcGIS 9.3 arcgisscripting module and contains a plenty of new functions that could help you to be more efficient when managing your GIS [...]

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What’s New in Editing at ArcGIS Desktop 10

I have just gone through materials for ESRI What’s New in Editing at ArcGIS Desktop 10 course. The course is short, but contains plenty of useful information that those users who have just upgraded to ArcGIS 10 will surely be interested in. It covers such topics as new editing workflow, which is based now on [...]

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Importing .csv into a feature layer

Here are the instructions on how to import .csv data into a point feature class by using ArcGIS Desktop and MS Excel 2007. 1.      Open a .csv file in Microsoft Excel 2007 by double-clicking it in the Windows Explorer. 2.      Right-click the first row and choose Insert>Entire row, if your .csv file does not have [...]

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ArcGIS Desktop performance

Performance of the ArcMap application is a pretty common issue for numerous users of ArcGIS Desktop software. Obviously, ArcGIS is a very big COM-project and this implies that there can be dozens of different aspects, both at hardware and software level, which may stipulate the performance degradation. Network resources used for sending data back and [...]

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