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Hurricane Map Tool

Script ToolAs promised, this post contains a description of a hurricane mapping tool that I wrote using Python and arcpy.  There is a download link for a zip file containing the tool and accompanying files.

ArcGIS Editing Tip for Version 10: Continue Feature Tool

TipA couple of weeks ago when I was teaching a What's New in Version 10 class, I had a student ask me, "So what if I have double clicked on a line feature to expose its sketch, and I then want to modify my feature by continuing to digitize the line from the end point."  This seems like a simple thing to want to do, but as I quickly ran through all of the editing tools available on the version 10 toolbars, I could not think of a way to do

Moving a Toolbar Crashes ArcMap 10.0

Bug InformationAbout a week ago, I had a very frustrating user experience.  ArcMap crashed several times in a row.  All I wanted to do was move my Editor toolbar to the other side of the display.  Everytime I tried, ArcMap became non-responsive and eventually crashed.  So then I thought, "Well maybe it is just the Editor toolbar, let me try another one."  No matter what toolbar I tried to move, ArcMap crashed.  Very Annoyi

Spatial Reference Information Tool

ToolI wrote this tool a while back for ArcGIS Desktop 9.3.  I got tired of having to go into the data frame properties or the layer properties to determine the various coordinate systems of the data layers on my map.  This tool iterates through all of the layers in the active data frame and reports back the coordinate system for each layer and for the active data frame.  It works for shapefile layers, geodatabase feature class layers, ra

Put Metadata in an HTML Popup (ArcGIS 10)

TipI have been experimenting with ESRI's new mosaic dataset format over the past couple of weeks, and I really like that you still have access to the individual images inside the mosaic.  One of the things that I did not like, however, is that I could not find a way to retrieve the metadata for the individual images.  If you open the attribute table for the mosaic dataset and click on the raster attribute, then you have access to a previe

Label Features with Attributes from Related Records

GIS InformationIt is easy to label features with attributes from a joined table, but retrieving the attributes from related records for a feature label is not so straightforward.  This has to be done with a function in the label expression dialog box.  A relate does not have to be set up between the two tables, but a common field to relate the records with is of course needed.  The steps to create the label are as follows:



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