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<DIV><SPAN class=560551219-22022007><FONT face=Arial>John,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=560551219-22022007><FONT face=Arial>If you are using ArcGIS,
you can do this a couple of ways. The simplest would be to start an edit
session. Select all the polygons you wish to consolidate into a single layer.
Paste them in to a single layer. Lastly Save and stop editing. You can also use
the Simple Data Loader in ArcCatalog to do this as well. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
shrug-l-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us
[mailto:shrug-l-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Sykes,
John<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 22, 2007 2:00 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
shrug-L@lists.dep.state.fl.us<BR><B>Subject:</B> shrug-l: Combining
Shapefiles<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><!-- Converted from text/rtf format -->
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>This is probably a no-brainer for most of you but . .
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<P><FONT face=Tahoma>I created 72 polygon shapefiles for all the Superfund
sites in Florida. Rather than deal with 72 layers, I would like to
create a new layer with each of the 72 shapefiles as a record in the final
attribute table. Then I can join the resulting table with a Superfund
database to "fill in" the remaining important information. Since most of
the 72 layers were created by dissolving multiple parcels into the site
polygon, they all have the same basic attributes table now, just the FID,
Shape and ID fields, all blank. It would probably be a good idea to add
a field for the site name or ID number, but I don't know if this is best
accomplished before or after creating the combined table. I will also
probably add perimeter, area and centroid data to the tables after combining
them all (that I know how to do).</FONT></P>
<P><B><FONT face="Brush Script MT" size=6>-- John</FONT></B>
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