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- Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:43 pm
- Forum: Geographic Information System (GIS) forum
- Topic: Database Connection in ArcCatalog: Connect to an Excel table
- Replies: 0
- Views: 13894
Database Connection in ArcCatalog: Connect to an Excel table
It’s a three-step process: 1. Setting up of the Excel spreadsheet, 2. Creating an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) data source, and 3. Connecting to the Excel file from ArcCatalog through OLE DB Provider (Object Linking and Embedding Database Provider). First step: Open your Excel file. Select the ...
- Thu Dec 24, 2009 10:43 pm
- Forum: Technology & How-To Forum
- Topic: How to partition a hard drive (volume) in Windows 7
- Replies: 1
- Views: 15110
How to partition a hard drive (volume) in Windows 7
It’s very easy to partition or resize your hard drive, which is normally (C):, in Windows 7. Let’s say your hard drive has space of 300 GB, and you want to partition it to make another drive of 100 GB. Click Start, then right click on Computer, then click on Manage. A new Window called ‚Computer Man...
- Fri Dec 18, 2009 5:59 pm
- Forum: Geographic Information System (GIS) forum
- Topic: Download raw data for your GIS project or tutorial
- Replies: 0
- Views: 11447
Download raw data for your GIS project or tutorial
You can download plenty of raw data for your GIS Project or tutorial from the US Geological Survey’s National Map Seamless Server. The server offers data like Elevation Dataset, Land Cover Dataset, High Resolution Orthoimagery etc. Follow the site
http://seamless.usgs.gov/index.php
Have fun.
http://seamless.usgs.gov/index.php
Have fun.
- Wed Dec 09, 2009 7:08 pm
- Forum: Geographic Information System (GIS) forum
- Topic: How to 'Bookmark' your favourite tools in ArcGIS
- Replies: 0
- Views: 11778
How to 'Bookmark' your favourite tools in ArcGIS
Sometimes we use some tools more often than others. In that case, it’s a good idea to bookmark them for quick access. It’s easy to bookmark tools in ArcGIS. First let’s set the ‘Bookmarks’ menu on the Main Menu bar. Go to Tools, and click on Customize. The following ‘Customize’ window will open. Cli...
- Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:22 pm
- Forum: Geographic Information System (GIS) forum
- Topic: How to fix broken links in ArcGIS 9.1 (and 9.2, or 9.3)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 13207
How to fix broken links in ArcGIS 9.1 (and 9.2, or 9.3)
If in ArcMap any of the data layers shows a red exclamation marks next to it (e.g. like the image below), then it means a broken link for that layer, i.e. the data source referenced by the layer is missing for some reasons. http://www.shamskm.com/images/ArcGIS/arcgis-1.jpg However, it’s quite easy t...
- Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:21 am
- Forum: Science
- Topic: How far is the Andromeda Galaxy?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 12523
How far is the Andromeda Galaxy?
The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, is the nearest neighbour of our Milky Way Galaxy. But how far is our ‘nearest neighbour’ from Earth. It’s a distance of 2.5 million light years . One light year is the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in one year. That means in one light year , light t...
- Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:42 pm
- Forum: Technology & How-To Forum
- Topic: Some engineering properties of cement: density, e-module
- Replies: 0
- Views: 12303
- Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:52 pm
- Forum: Public Health & Yoga forum
- Topic: How to prevent second breast cancer attack
- Replies: 0
- Views: 11108
How to prevent second breast cancer attack
New studies find that women who survived breast cancer can do something to prevent a second attack. The things needed to do for this are much simpler: Avoid smoking completely. Smoking is dangerous, because it’s cancerous. To keep the weight at normal , and To drink moderately . More about it on Yah...
- Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:31 pm
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Where do Meerkat or Suricate live?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 11196
Where do Meerkat or Suricate live?
The Meerkat, a small mammal of mongoose family, live in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana and South Africa.
It’s called ‘Erdmännchen’ in German.
It’s called ‘Erdmännchen’ in German.
- Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:16 pm
- Forum: Science
- Topic: What is the only continent without a desert?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 18915
What is the only continent without a desert?
Europe is the only continent on Earth without a desert. However, when we think of deserts, the first thing that comes in our mind is the Great Sahara Desert of Africa. Although most probably it’s out of your mind, but you should also know that Antarctica is a desert too. In all these deserts (e.g. ...
- Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:03 pm
- Forum: Websites Related Forum
- Topic: What does ‘HTTP: 403 Forbidden’ message mean
- Replies: 1
- Views: 16546
What does ‘HTTP: 403 Forbidden’ message mean
If you are trying to access a website or a specific database and you can’t, rather you get a ‘HTTP: 403 Forbidden’ message, then it means the server that hosts your site or database, is not allowing it for some reasons to access to view the page you want to. This does not mean that your website is d...
- Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:01 pm
- Forum: Geographic Information System (GIS) forum
- Topic: How to change or transform coordinate system in ArcGIS 9.1
- Replies: 0
- Views: 23019
How to change or transform coordinate system in ArcGIS 9.1
It’s pretty easy if you want to change the coordinate system of any of your dataset or feature class (let’s say a shape file, normally ends with a .shp extension) in ArcGIS 9.1 to 9.3. You need to work with ArcToolbox. Go to ‘Arctoolbox’. Then Click on ‘Data Management Tools’, Click on ‘Projections ...
- Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:28 pm
- Forum: Websites Related Forum
- Topic: Alexa's top 1,000,000 (1M) sites list
- Replies: 0
- Views: 11892
Alexa's top 1,000,000 (1M) sites list
Here you can download Alexa's top 1 million sites list, which alexa claims update daily:
http://www.alexa.com/topsites
http://www.alexa.com/topsites
- Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:12 pm
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Is saltwater alkaline or acidic?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 30354
Is saltwater alkaline or acidic?
Yes saltwater is alkaline. If we think of seawater, which has salinity of 3.5% (means 1 Kg seawater has 35 grams of dissolved salts), has pH more than 7.0. The main reason of alkaline pH of seawater is the presense of bicarbonates among the dissolved salts. So if the saltwater would have sufficient ...
- Fri May 29, 2009 3:47 pm
- Forum: Technology & How-To Forum
- Topic: What is 1 millidarcy (1mD)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 59669
What is 1 millidarcy (1mD)
1 millidarcy is one-thousandth of a darcy (1 mD = 0.001 darcy). Darcy is the unit of permeability commonly used in oil and water reservoir to express the ability of fluid to flow through a porous media (let’s say a sandstone reservoir for gas). 1 darcy will require that the 1. fluid has a viscosity ...