Yukon GIS

North Arrows and True North

Posted on 2016-Apr-12 by matt

When you insert a north arrow onto a page in ArcMap, by default it will align to north of the data frame, the page in […]

ArcMap, Cartography, How-to

Use Unsplit Lines instead of Dissolve for 3D lines

Posted on 2016-Jan-19 by matt

Executing: Dissolve Lines_3d D:\x\clipped.gdb\Lines_3d_dissolved nid # SINGLE_PART UNSPLIT_LINES Start Time: Tue Jan 19 10:36:18 2016 Sorting Attributes… Dissolving… ERROR 999999: Error executing function. The Geometry […]

How-to

Combine touching polygons, keeping all attributes from Class ‘A’ feature

Posted on 2015-Dec-11 by matt

How to automatically merge polygons sharing a common boundary, keeping all attributes from class “A” features? Interactively I would do this in an edit session […]

ArcMap, Geoprocessing, How-to

Open in Explorer from ArcCatalog

Posted on 2015-Nov-18 by matt

It’s bugged me for years that in ArcCatalog there’s no “open this in Explorer” feature. Today I stumbled across a solution that doesn’t involve coding […]

How-to

Merging lakes split on YT border

Posted on 2015-Nov-12 by matt

Turned out to be quite involved, but now have an automated solution. How to automatically merge polygons sharing a common boundary, keeping all attributes from […]

How-to