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How do I convert ESRI or MapInfo GIS data to images using free tools?

The Australian Electoral Commission has free ESRI and MapInfo formate GIS layers of Australian electoral boundaries for download. I want to convert this data to a thumbnail polygon image using a free tool. ...

ArcGIS Explorer: Invoke main thread from secondary thread

I'm developing a small add-in for ESRI ArcGIS Explorer 1200. The extension itself is quite simple, it just uses a FileSystemWatcher to wait for an incoming file, then processes the file. My main problem is: When the FileSystemWatcher event fires, it uses a different thread than the GUI-thread. So I can't access GUI-related objects. Now ...

Running a python script from ArcMap

Hello all - running a python script from within ESRI's ArcMap and it calls another python script (or at least attempts to call it) using the subprocess module. However, the system window that it executes in (DOS window) comes up only very briefly and enough for me to see there is an error but goes away too quickly for me to actually rea...

what is actually "EXTENT" in gis slang?

Hi , I am not clearly understanding the extent parameter in GIS applications. for ex, In mapserver map file we are using NAME "CGI-CONTEXT-DEMO" STATUS ON SIZE 400 300 **EXTENT -2200000 -712631 3072800 3840000** UNITS METERS IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255 IMAGETYPE png here extent means lower left x,y and upper right x,y. but long,lat values ...

using DAFIF data in ESRI products

Does anyone have any experience of plotting DAFIF data in ESRI products? are there any DAFIF to shapefile conversion utelities or libraries out there? ...

How to convert an ESRI Shape-file into SQL Server 2008?

I have a shapefile that I would like to upload to a spatial SQL Server 2008. I have tried using this tool: SQL Server 2008 Spatial Tools. But without luck. Does anyone know any other (free) tools for doing this? ...

Remove all CSS rules

Is there a way to wipe out all CSS rules once style sheets have already been loaded? I have to use a proprietary JavaScript library (ESRI's ArcGIS Server API) which is built on top of Dojo. I make extensive use of Dojo's widgets and would like to use Dojo's claro theme but unfortunately the ESRI library mungs up the CSS by loading in of...

ESRI: ADF + Geodatabase

Hi, I'm a .NET Develop. I'm using ESRI / ADF and I have a problem whit some methods of Geodatabase. On the beginning of development I needed connect on GeoDB and execute queries. On this moment I got this error, ACCESS DENIED: (Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)) So I solved this, creating my IWorksp...

ESRI - Arcmap help to create a button that will populate current date for selected features

I would like to create a custom tool or button in Arcmap that programmatically fills in a number of attributes of selected features for a layer. To keep things simple, lets say my Arcmap project only has one SDE layer, and I'd like to populate the Date_Created field. The SDE layer being edited is versioned. I have some code that partial...

ESRI's shapefile to Matlab

I am looking for a function to read/write points, lines and polygons from ESRI's shapefile format (as used in Arcview) for use in Matlab ...

Integrate ESRI data with Mapstraction

Is it possible to integrate data from ESRI with Mapstraction. Do anyone got any idea in this area. ...

Is ESRI Silverlight Mapping API Free or exactly how much (also what about Silverlight Bing Maps)?

I am developing a mapping application using ESRI Silverlight API (it's SL map control). I am not using ArcGIS Server whatsoever. Once this map application goes commercial (plan for clients to use it - not that many by the way), will I have to pay any pay-per-hit usage or any other related costs? I know that both the Google Maps API an...