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Thursday, May 14, 2009 1:42 PM

Raster Clipping – Part B - Using an irregular shape to clip a raster dataset

This is a follow up to last week’s post . Last week we talked about clipping raster datasets based on a single polygon or graphic. This week we will look at clipping a raster dataset based on selected features within a feature class. Sometimes you will
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009 12:38 PM

Better Raster Clipping options in ArcGIS

Many users like the Extract by Mask option that the Spatial Analyst tools provide, however they may want to perform the clip on a multiple band raster or may not have a Spatial Analyst license. Good news, at ArcGIS 9.3 we have added functionality to clip
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 4:53 PM

Water Utilities Resource Center and the Geodatabase

As we have highlighted in earlier blog posts the resource centers are a great place for user resources which span the different ArcGIS products and workflows. One interesting aspect to this are the community or industry specific sites. The first such
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Friday, February 06, 2009 12:46 PM

What is the ESRI Knowledge Base?

The ESRI Knowledge Base is a searchable collection of useful resources including known issues with the software, “How To” type documents, frequently asked questions (FAQ), common error messages or problems and system requirement information. Often referred
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:59 PM

Podcast on Migrating to the Geodatabase now available

To follow up on our last post, this is just a heads up to tell you that Derek Law’s podcast for Migrating to the Geodatabase is now online. The podcast talks about how to migrate existing data into the geodatabase. Derek goes over migration details for
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 3:15 PM

Migrating your existing data into the Geodatabase

While I was at the user conference earlier this year I was getting a lot of questions about migrating to the geodatabase from other data formats. I talked it over with Derek Law and he thought he’d make a podcast about it (we’ll link to that podcast when
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Friday, July 18, 2008 2:33 PM

2008 User Conference Presentations – Geodatabase Essentials: Parts 1 & 2

The Geodatabase Essentials presentations are designed to introduce the main concepts integral to the geodatabase and its use. Colin Zwicker and I will be presenting the first part, introducing the concept of the geodatabase and offering a high level overview
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Friday, June 13, 2008 2:48 PM

Geodatabase Essentials - Archiving

Geodatabase archiving provides a mechanism for capturing and managing a record of your edits as features and rows are updated over time. This record is automatically updated as edits are saved and is available for query and analysis. This is handy when
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Friday, May 30, 2008 2:13 PM

Five reasons why you should be using the File Geodatabase

There are many options to the GIS user when deciding what data store to use to store geographic data. At ArcGIS 9.2 we introduced a new type of geodatabase, the File Geodatabase. While all types of geodatabases have their strengths and weaknesses, we
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Monday, April 07, 2008 10:22 AM

New Georeferencing Video in Raster Web Help

Just a heads up to tell you that we’ve posted a georeferencing video in the raster section of the help. We’ve been receiving a lot of support calls about georeferencing so hopefully this video will help people understand and implement it a little better.
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Friday, March 28, 2008 9:07 AM

Geodatabase Essentials – Part I: What is the Geodatabase?

Now that the dev summit is over we can tone down the amateur journalism and get into some real topics. Seeing as how this blog is titled “Inside the Geodatabase”, I thought a good place to start would be an introductory topic on the geodatabase. So here
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Friday, March 14, 2008 3:31 PM

Welcome Inside the Geodatabase

We’re excited to be launching this new Geodatabase-centric blog (unofficially titled ‘Inside the Geodatabase’). The scope of this blog will range from introductory information regarding general Geodatabase functionality to some more advanced topics and
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