Split Layer By Attributes for ArcGIS

This is an intresting tool I used a lot to split a layer by attribute .

The tool takes a single shapefile and splits it into many shapefiles based on the unique values of a chosen field

1. Open ArcMap
2. Open Arctoolbox. 
3. Right click on the top level of the Toolbox and you should see a menu come up and one of the choices will be add toolbox. 
4. Navigate to the python directory and add the .tbx file.

Download :

http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/geoprocessing/details?entryID=37AEB018-1422-2418-A036-CA6D9920F808

Why Use GIS in the Petroleum Industry ?

 The ebook mentioned below  can answer you how GIS technologies are being applied throughout the E&P industry, including in acquisition, seismic planning, exploration, drilling, production, distribution, pipeline, decommisioning, HSE and data management.

Find out how an organisation focussed on the oil and gas sector can benefit from applying intelligent mapping and location analytics technology.

You can download it for free 

http://www.exprodat.com/Forms/Why-Use-GIS-in-Petroleum.htm

Download gvSIG

gvSIG is a project dedicate to geomatic science. Download gvSIG free and you will be able to obtain and analyze geographic information in a very precise way

Download gvSIG

How to upload Geospatial Data from ArcMap to a Garmin GPS

Step 1:
Connect your GPS to your computer with the serial port connector or USB and turn your GPS.

Step 2:

Start DNR Garmin. You should see a box almost or exactly identical to the one below.

Step 3:
Set the projection needed  (you should only have to do this once) and press OK
- refer to screenshots below:

Step 4:
Start ArcMap either by itself or from a Toolkit folder that you are working on.


Step 5:
If you want to upload a  shapefile you will need to highlight the layer name that you wish to upload.

Step 6:
After you have the layer selected you need to go back to DNR Garmin (It should already be open)
and click on File>Load From>ArcMap>Layer. You can also upload a graphic from ArcMap as well,
you just need to digitize the graphic (point, line or polygon) and select it with your pointer, then
click on graphic instead of layer (in the step displayed below).

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Step 7 :

After you click on Layer, the data will upload and your screen should look something like the screen capture below. By default, points are brought in as waypoints and polygons and lines are brought in as tracks.

Step 8:

The next step is to click on track (since we loaded a polygon) and the click on upload.

 Step 9:

You should verify on your GPS that the data has been transferred correctly before you go to the field. To do this you can use the pan map feature on your GPS and zoom into the anticipated location of your data and verify that it has been transferred correctly.

http://dnrgarmin.software.informer.com/download/

Using the DNR Garmin Extension to Download Waypoints from a GPS Unit

The DNR Garmin is a GPS extension that works with ArcView, ArcMap (8.x, 9.x, 10.x), Landview or ArcExplorer. 

With this extension you can transfer your Garmin GPS waypoints, tracks or routes directly to one of the above programs above and save your data as Graphics or Shapefiles.

In our example we will show how to use DNRgarmin with ArcMap. Before launching the program you should plug your device into the PC.

Plug in the cable in the one of the USB Ports if you are using a “USB” cable or into the “Serial” port if you are using that type of cable.

Please note if you are using Windows XP a “USB” cable might not work properly. Our advice is to use the “Serial” port if you are working on XP.

Step 1: 

Launch the program by double clicking on the desktop icon.  

Step 1-1:

The program interface will appear like below :

Step1-2:

 The program will try to connect to your GPS device and Check if your device is properly connected to the port and follow the instructions in the message.

Step 2:

Configure your program by clicking on “GPS” à “Set Port” à “USB” (if you are using USB cable) or “Port 1” (if you are using Serial).

If your GPS is connected to the program you should see “Connected” in the bottom left corner of the program window.

The program is ready to retrieve your data.

Click on “Waypoint” and then “Download” to download your waypoints into the program.

Or click on “Track” => “Download” if you want to download your Tracks.

After the data is downloaded you will receive a message stating the number of records received.

Step 3:

Click on “>>> Data Table >>>” to see the properties of the downloaded data.

Now you are able to edit your data as needed.

After editing your data, save your data as a shapefile to use it in ArcMap.

Please note: DNRgarmin does not create a projection file (*.prj). You will need to define the projection in ArcCatalog or ArcMap to have a projection associated with your shapefile.

http://dnrgarmin.software.informer.com/download/

MapInfo Tools

Mapinfo Tools  presents an important resources for mapinfo users, you can find a wide range of interesting Utilities and add- ons that help to increase the functionality of MapInfo and make work easier

www.mapinfotools.com

GADM database of Global Administrative Areas

GADM is a spatial database of the location of the world's administrative areas (or adminstrative boundaries) for use in GIS and similar software. Administrative areas in this database are countries and lower level subdivisions such as provinces, departments, bibhag, bundeslander, daerah istimewa, fivondronana, krong, landsvæðun, opština, sous-préfectures, counties, and thana. GADM describes where these administrative areas are (the "spatial features"), and for each area it provides some attributes, such as the name and variant names.

The data are available as shapefile, ESRI geodatabase, RData, and Google Earth kmz format. Shapefiles can be used for most mapping and "GIS" software. You can download a free program such as Q-GIS or DIVA-GIS. The RData files can be used in R with the 'sp' package loaded.

You can download the data by country or for the whole  world.

Open Signal Maps.

The Open Signal Maps designed for Androids monitors the signal strength in a network. The application shows the direction and the location of the tower the phone is connected to and also displays the strength of the signal that it is receiving. Network speed can also be easily determined by self run tests on the application.

  

 Users can share the data the app gathers with the OpenSignalMaps website, where the information is processed and visualized on a map.

The website allows users to drill down into the data by network and network type, allowing them to find which network has the best coverage  and  comparisons of download speeds   in any location.

web site  : http://opensignal.com/   
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ISO/TC 211

ISO/TC 211 is a standard technical committee formed within ISO, tasked with covering the areas of digital geographic information (such as used by geographic information systems) and geomatics. It is responsible for preparation of a series of International Standards and Technical Specifications numbered in the range starting at 19101

Scope:

ISO/TC 211 is concerned with the standardization in the field of digital geographic information. This work aims to establish a structured set of standards for information concerning objects or phenomena that are directly or indirectly associated with a location relative to the Earth.

Project specification areas within the ISO/TC 211 technical committee include:

• Simple Features access
• Reference models
• Spatial and temporal schemas
• Location-based services
• Metadata
• Web feature and map services
• Classification systems

The ISO/TC 211 work is closely related to the efforts of the Open Geospatial Consortium. ISO/TC 211 have numerous liaisons with other organizations that often results in identical or nearly identical standards often being adopted by both organizations.

Web Site : http://www.isotc211.org/

ArcBruTile - Tile Services in ArcGIS Desktop

ArcBruTile display maps from OpenStreetMap, Bing, SpatialCloud, MapQuest, Europa Technologies, VR-TheWorld Online, Mapbox, Stamen Design, PDOK and others in ArcGIS Desktop.

Supported maps

• Stamen: Terrain, Toner, Watercolor http://maps.stamen.com
• Cloudmade: Fresh, Midnight Commander, Pale Dawn http://maps.cloudmade.com
• MapBox: Streets, Natural Earth http://mapbox.com/maps/
• OpenStreetMap: Hike and Bike Map http://hikebikemap.de/, Open Cycle Map http://www.opencyclemap.org/
• MapQuest: OpenAerialMap http://www.mapquest.com/
• PDOK: BAG, BRT, Natura2000, Nok2011, Top10nl, Top50 Raster, Top50 Vector, Top250 Raster (layerfiles)

Download ArcBru Tile

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Georeferencing an image using ArcGIS

Georeferencing involves assigning real-world coordinates to a number of reference points on the image. In ArcMap, this is done using the tools available in ArcMap’s Georeferencing Toolbar. In this example a map is used which has real-world coordinates

labelled near the four corners of the map. These points can be identified and assigned their real-world coordinates. These points are referred to as ‘control points.’

1. Add the image file to ArcMap (by using the 'add data' button just as you normally would - you will be asked if you wish to 'build pyramids,' which you can do to shorten the display time. Building pyramids will result inproduction of *.aux and *.rrd files).

2. Select View/Toolbar/Georeferencing

3. After selecting control points, zoom into one of them so you can place your mouse as accurately as possible on the point.

4. Under Georeferencing, uncheck “Auto-adjust.”

5. Click on the “Add control points” button.

6. Click on the identified point on the map image and move the mouse somewhere a bit further away. Then click the mouse again. You’ll see a line between a green point and a red point.

7. The green point is at what’s referred to as the ‘source.’ The red point is at what’s referred to as the ‘target.’ If you wanted to warp the image such that it overlaid with a data layer you had added to ArcMap, the red point would need to be placed at the corresponding point of the existing data layer. However, in this example, you are not warping the image to overlay with a data layer in ArcMap. Rather, you’ll need to provide ArcMap the target coordinate values. To do this, click on the ‘view link table’ button on the Georeferencing toolbar. Change the map x and map y values to reflect the real-world

values read from the map.

8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 for all of your control points. If you make a mistake, you can a control point by selecting the appropriate row in the table and pressing the “Delete” key on your keyboard. In this example, the final table looks like this:

9. When you have finished entering control point data, click on OK to close the link table.

10. Select Georeferencing/Rectify. In the next window, change any of the defaults if desired. When the rectification process is finished, you will see that .tif and *.tfw files have been created.

11. Select Georeferencing/Update Display to view your results. Now you should be able to overlay other data (provided those data use the same coordinate system). This example below shows that data for states and major roads overlay with the image.

Heights Profile with Google Earth

The Heights Profile is very useful to verify the possible obstructions to a link.

To use the Height Profiles, the first thing to do is create a path. For that, one way is to click with mouse right button in the Temporary Places Folder (1) -> Add (2) -> Path (3).

Then type a name for your path, for example My Link (1). Click the OK button

Done. Note that the link 'My Link' is now available in the left pane (1). Right click on it and choose Show Elevation Profile (2).

Voila! There's your Heights Profile (1)! Simpler than you thought, isn't it? :)

Correction d'un Shape file endomagé

Pour corriger  un shape file endommagé, Shapechk  est un utiltaire intéressant qui le  permet, il suffit juste de  le télécharger :  shapechk.exe

La première étape consiste à cliquer sur le bouton  pour sélectionner le fichier de formes endommagé.

L'étape suivante est optionnelle. Il s'agit de cliquer sur le bouton . Ce bouton permet de lire l'en-tête de la donnée mais ne corrige en rien la donnée.

En revanche, le bouton  contrôle le fichier .shx et le génère si cela s'avère nécessaire.

Pour terminer le dernier bouton  contrôle le fichier .dbf. Il permet d'ajouter des lignes à la table attributaire si cela s'avère nécessaire ou d'en supprimer s'il y a des lignes en trop (plus exactement à supprimer les lignes ne correspondant à aucune entité géographique).

Excel To KML

With the website  Excel to KML you can use a excel spreadsheet
In the spreadsheet you define specific columns and add the necessary data. On the website you can upload the excel file and convert it to KML by viewing it in Google Earth. Then you can download the kml file.

Obtaining shapefiles from OSM data

This is where you can find extracts of maps from different places around the world. From here you can download:

• OSM XML extracts by country
• Garmin Map Files (OSM.err edition)
• Osmosis country bounding polygon
• Shapefile extracts by country
• Navit maps by country
• GPX POI by country
• TomTom POI by country
• OSM XML feature extracts by country
• Adobe Illustrator files by country

The files provided on these pages are created from OpenStreetMap map data. Because OpenStreetMap is a work in progress many of the countries are only partially mapped or are incomplete. The data contained on these pages has not been checked or verified  and we don't recommend using it for any mission critical applications.

Downlods data

MyGeodata Converter services

MyGeodata Converter allows you to read and write from/to a huge number of CAD and GIS formats - both vector and raster. MyGeodata Converter is more than only simply data converter! In contrast to common format convertion MyGeodata Converter allows sofisticated data processing during conversion. MyGeodata Converter also can be used as a powerful tool for collective data and attributes processing.

Pack one or more GIS datesets of various formats or coordinate systems to a ZIP file - then you can convert it collectivety to any other format and coordinate system

Run vector Converter                                  Run Raster Converter

Vector                                                                          

List of acceptable input data formats		List of available output data formats
ESRI Shapefile Arc/Info Binary Coverage Arc/Info .E00 (ASCII) Coverage Microstation DGN MapInfo File Comma Separated Value (.csv) GML GPX KML GeoJSON UK .NTF SDTS U.S. Census TIGER/Line S-57 (ENC) VRT - Virtual Datasource EPIInfo .REC Atlas BNA Interlis 1 Interlis 2 GMT X-Plane/Flighgear aeronautical data Geoconcept		ESRI Shapefile Microstation DGN MapInfo File Comma Separated Value (.csv) GML GPX KML GeoJSON

Raster :

List of acceptable input data formats		List of available output data formats
VRT / Virtual Raster (.vrt) GTiff / GeoTIFF (.tif) NITF / National Imagery Transmission Format (.ntf) RPFTOC / Raster Product Format TOC format (.toc) HFA / Erdas Imagine Images (.img) SAR_CEOS / CEOS SAR Image CEOS / CEOS Image JAXAPALSAR / JAXA PALSAR Product Reader (Level 1.1/1.5) GFF / Ground-based SAR Applications Testbed File Format (.gff) ELAS / ELAS AIG / Arc/Info Binary Grid AAIGrid / Arc/Info ASCII Grid (.asc) SDTS / SDTS Raster (.ddf) OGDI / OGDI Bridge DTED / DTED Elevation Raster PNG / Portable Network Graphics (.png) JPEG / JPEG JFIF (.jpg) MEM / In Memory Raster JDEM / Japanese DEM (.mem) GIF / Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) BIGGIF / Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) ESAT / Envisat Image Format (.n1) BSB / Maptech BSB Nautical Charts XPM / X11 PixMap Format (.xpm) BMP / MS Windows Device Independent Bitmap (.bmp) DIMAP / SPOT DIMAP AirSAR / AirSAR Polarimetric Image RS2 / RadarSat 2 XML Product PCIDSK / PCIDSK Database File (.pix) PCRaster / PCRaster Raster File (.map) ILWIS / ILWIS Raster Map (.mpr/mpl) SGI / SGI Image File Format 1.0 (.rgb) SRTMHGT / SRTMHGT File Format (.hgt) Leveller / Leveller heightfield (.ter) Terragen / Terragen heightfield (.ter) GMT / GMT NetCDF Grid Format (.nc) netCDF / Network Common Data Format (.nc) HDF4 / Hierarchical Data Format Release 4 HDF4Image / HDF4 Dataset ISIS3 / USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 3) ISIS2 / USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 2) PDS / NASA Planetary Data System ERS / ERMapper .ers Labelled JPEG2000 / JPEG-2000 part 1 (ISO/IEC 15444-1) (.jp2) L1B / NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set FIT / FIT Image GRIB / GRIdded Binary (.grb) RMF / Raster Matrix Format (.rsw) MSGN / EUMETSAT Archive native (.nat) RST / Idrisi Raster A.1 (.rst) INGR / Intergraph Raster GSAG / Golden Software ASCII Grid (.grd) GSBG / Golden Software Binary Grid (.grd) GS7BG / Golden Software 7 Binary Grid (.grd) COSAR / COSAR Annotated Binary Matrix (TerraSAR-X) TSX / TerraSAR-X Product COASP / DRDC COASP SAR Processor Raster (.hdr) PNM / Portable Pixmap Format (netpbm) (.pnm) DOQ1 / USGS DOQ (Old Style) DOQ2 / USGS DOQ (New Style) ENVI / ENVI .hdr Labelled EHdr / ESRI .hdr Labelled GenBin / Generic Binary (.hdr Labelled) PAux / PCI .aux Labelled MFF / Vexcel MFF Raster (.hdr) MFF2 / Vexcel MFF2 (HKV) Raster FujiBAS / Fuji BAS Scanner Image GSC / GSC Geogrid FAST / EOSAT FAST Format BT / VTP .bt (Binary Terrain) 1.3 Format (.bt) LAN / Erdas .LAN/.GIS CPG / Convair PolGASP IDA / Image Data and Analysis NDF / NLAPS Data Format EIR / Erdas Imagine Raw DIPEx / DIPEx LCP / FARSITE v.4 Landscape File (.lcp) RIK / Swedish Grid RIK (.rik) USGSDEM / USGS Optional ASCII DEM (and CDED) (.dem) GXF / GeoSoft Grid Exchange Format (.gxf) HTTP / HTTP Fetching Wrapper HDF5 / Hierarchical Data Format Release 5 (.hdf5) HDF5Image / HDF5 Dataset ADRG / ARC Digitized Raster Graphics (.gen) BLX / Magellan topo (.blx)		VRT / Virtual Raster GTiff / GeoTIFF NITF / National Imagery Transmission Format HFA / Erdas Imagine Images (.img) ELAS / ELAS AAIGrid / Arc/Info ASCII Grid DTED / DTED Elevation Raster PNG / Portable Network Graphics JPEG / JPEG JFIF MEM / In Memory Raster GIF / Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) XPM / X11 PixMap Format BMP / MS Windows Device Independent Bitmap PCIDSK / PCIDSK Database File PCRaster / PCRaster Raster File ILWIS / ILWIS Raster Map SGI / SGI Image File Format 1.0 SRTMHGT / SRTMHGT File Format Leveller / Leveller heightfield Terragen / Terragen heightfield GMT / GMT NetCDF Grid Format netCDF / Network Common Data Format HDF4Image / HDF4 Dataset ERS / ERMapper .ers Labelled JPEG2000 / JPEG-2000 part 1 (ISO/IEC 15444-1) FIT / FIT Image RMF / Raster Matrix Format RST / Idrisi Raster A.1 INGR / Intergraph Raster GSAG / Golden Software ASCII Grid (.grd) GSBG / Golden Software Binary Grid (.grd) PNM / Portable Pixmap Format (netpbm) ENVI / ENVI .hdr Labelled EHdr / ESRI .hdr Labelled PAux / PCI .aux Labelled MFF / Vexcel MFF Raster MFF2 / Vexcel MFF2 (HKV) Raster BT / VTP .bt (Binary Terrain) 1.3 Format IDA / Image Data and Analysis USGSDEM / USGS Optional ASCII DEM (and CDED) BLX / Magellan topo (.blx)

http://converter.mygeodata.eu/

QGIS Tutorials

Intersting tutorial from Harvard :    QGIS Tutorial

  Beginning QGIS Tutorial

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Free and Open Source GIS Resources

• News about free and open source GIS
  
  • http://www.digitalearth.ca/
• Free and open source software sites specific to GIS
  • http://freegis.org/
  • http://www.maptools.org/
  • http://www.remotesensing.org/
• Free and open source software sites that include GIS
• http://sourceforge.net/index.php
• http://www.freshmeat.org/

Bundled Software

Sometimes it's just easier to go one place. Here are some places worth going.

FWTools http://fwtools.maptools.org/

Frank Warmerdam maintains most of the open source infrastructure for handling projections and file formats. It's handy to know what and where they are, since they are often prerequisites for installing other packages: proj4 and GDAL (pronounced "goodle", rhymes with noodle).

FWTools includes pre-compiled binaries for both Windows and Linux of GDAL and proj4, along with the web map server MapServer and raster-oriented desktop OpenEV. Frank contributes to or maintains all these packages.

GIS Knoppix http://www.sourcepole.com/sources/software/gis-knoppix/

GIS Knoppix is a self-booting Linux CD set up to be a sort of Linux workstation on a CD. It has office productivity tools, like OpenOffice , along with a full set of GIS tools: desktop, web map server, etc.

MapServer for Windows (MS4W) http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml

MS4W installs pre-compiled windows binaries that comprise a complete development environment for making applications with the MapServer web map server.

Enterprise GIS: Spatially Enabled Databases

PostGIS http://postgis.refractions.net/

PostGIS is the most commonly used back-end database in free software. Most of the desktops listed are PostGIS clients, as well as the MapServer and GeoServer web map servers.

MySQL http://www.mysql.com/

MySQL has spatial extensions , and is supported in both the MapServer and GeoServer web map servers.

Desktops

GRASS http://grass.ibiblio.org/index.html

GRASS , the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, is a long-standing, complete GIS system. It was originally written in Unix, and runs best in Linux or Unix of some kind. Although the interfaces have recently improved it still has a learning curve. The GRASS community is enormous, and world-wide, with commensurate support resources.

JUMP http://www.jump-project.org/

JUMP supposedly works everywhere, but is much more windows oriented. Has a nice graphical user interface (GUI), and includes conflation tools. It requires SUN's Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

OpenEV http://openev.sourceforge.net/

OpenEV is a raster-oriented viewer with some editing capability. Can display vectors, and create simple shapefiles. Most vector capabilities (snapping, etc.) are not present.

Quantum GIS (QGIS) http://qgis.org/

QGIS is mostly a viewer, with some fairly new editing capabilities. It is more mature on the Linux side of the house, but does have a windows preview release. It is extremely simple to operate, and creates configuration files for the MapServer web map server.

Thuban http://thuban.intevation.org/

Thuban is a viewer, and is definitely cross-platform (Windows, Linux, etc.). It's based on Python.

UDig http://udig.refractions.net/

UDig is still in development, but may suit your needs even in its current form. It's designed to expand on JUMP functionality, and conform to important Open Geospatial Consortium standards. Refractions Research is planning to sell support for uDig.

Web Map Servers

There are quite a variety of these. The two listed below have the most developed capabilities.

MapServer http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/

MapServer has a very simple set-up and is economical with system resources. It is widely supported and integrated with other packages. The MapServer community has an annual conference.

GeoServer http://geoserver.sourceforge.net/html/index.php

GeoServer is Java-based, and has a fairly complex set-up. It is widely supported, and integrated with other packages.