You may need read only access to data stored in an enterprise RDBMS like Oracle. You can also connect to personal and SDE geodatabases. The really useful functionality is the ability to return selected fields from one or more tables in a single table. You can restrict the records returned in your query table with an SQL string. The resulting table is held in memory during that ArcMap session. (Untill you remove it.) The Make Query Table Tool is available in ArcToolbox, either…

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I don't know about you, but I have had to deal with land parcels quite a bit when doing my maps for exploration Leases/GeoPermits. One of the things that I really needed was a way to have the acreage (of the polygon) automatically update whenever I made a change in the geometry of the polygon, esp. if I was working "backwards" from a legal description, and I had to make the polygon "fit" the description.



As you know, you can make an 'acres' field in the attribute table to handle the… Continue

I'm sure that most of you use Excel quite a bit. If you are somewhat of a power user, then there are 4 utilities that you might want to check out. All but 1 are free, but if you decide to use the free ones, please consider making a donation to support the developers.



They are:



ASAP Utilities

I've been using…

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Welcome to the Petroleum Users GIS (PUGIS) Network!

Well, I just wanted to let you all know that I finally got this thing off the ground.

I checked around to see what was available for creating forums and the like, and came up with this site, hosted by Ning.

Actually, I wasn't even thinking using the "social networking" format to create a user group. I was fixed on the "Forum" idea, but after realizing that the ones that offered the…

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