Some people call be obsessive. I prefer more flattering terms, like 'determined' and 'optimistic'

[cremedelakrem]

WHY I CAN'T I JOIN THIS DATA TO THE ATTRIBUTE TABLE OF A SHAPE FILE IN ArcView???

I wasted a whole fucking day at work trying to figure this out, and I plan on wasting my entire weekend until I do. Okay that's not true, but I did bring it home, and I will figure it out. Alright, it might be true. We'll see.

Comments

[skyknyt]

Reading this was super sexy.

... Uh I mean.. did you try converting the data using ArcToolbox? I realize that it sucks, but it might do what you need it to do.

skye

Sigh.

[cremedelakrem]

I avoid ArcToolbox like the plague, but I'm thinkin you're right.

Thank you!

Evil, evil SHP file.

[cremedelakrem]

I exported a copy of the attributes and tried to join it to the original attribute table in the SHP file. Of course this is a 1:1 relationship, so there shouldn't be any problem joining.

And yet it still didn't work. It can't join to a copy of itself. That's a bad sign.

This can only be true if rows in the SHP file is corrupt. I confirmed this in Access (some rows could not be imported), but I cannot correct it there b/c you cannot alter the number of rows or the SHP file won't connect to its DBF attributes. I can't correct in ArcToolbox because it is painfully slow and I'm just not patient enough. I must acquire another SHP file.

Analysis: overdone.

Time: wasted.

(such a typical end)