ArcGIS Tips

Adding the AREA attribute to a shapefile of polygons.
How to add the "area" attribute to a polygon shapefile in ArcGIS.

Creating a point shapefile from a table containing X- and Y-coordinates
Directions to "Creating point features from coordinate values."

Extracting StreetMap USA data
How to clip out street data from StreetMap USA and generate a shapefile of the selected streets.

Converting polygons to rasters
How to convert a polygon shapefile to a raster file

Creating a shapefile and fields
How to create a shapefile, define its attributes, and create features.

Importing Autocad data
How to import Autocad data layers into ArcGIS.

Loading Excel data
How to save Excel data as a dbf file then load the data into ArcMap

Creating a raster with no NODATA cells
How to create a raster with no NODATA cell values using an input raster that has some cells with NODATA values.

Creating regions in ArcMap
How to create regions (clusters of polygons with like-properties, such as the islands of Hawaii).

Creating regions in ArcMap after polygons are built
How to create regions after the polygons are already built.

Polygon-Raster Overlay
A procedure for generating a raster whose cell values reflect the sum of the are of polygons in a shapefile that fall within each raster cell.

Scanning and digitizing
A procedure for scanning maps and then digitizing features

Loading Potential Evapotranspiration data
A procedure for loading and generating a raster a designated cell sizes for Potential Evapotranspiration (PET) data

Map projections
A link to a discussion on projections

Rasters
Some notes on things to consider when working with rasters

Resampling
A procedure for converting raster files to that the cells of the raster are converted to a smaller size.

Assigning point values to raster cells
A procedure that extracts the minimum value of an attribute of all points and populates the associated cell of a raster with the minimum values.

Loading GTOPO30 (elevation) data
A procedure for downloading GTOPO30 data, extracting the data then processing within ArcGIS

Generating a Lattice Polygon of a Continent
A procedure to genereate a lattice polygon covering a continent



ArcObjects Tips

How to construct a polygon from circular arcs
Using ArcObjects, construct a polygon object of a circle.
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ArcView 3.x Tips

Adding attributes
A procedure for adding attributes in ArcView 3.x



Accessories

How to TAR
Procedures for TAR-ing data files