How to shift a Vector-Grid (Shape file)?

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11-29-2012 08:07 AM
SadraAlavi
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Hey 🙂

I created a vector Grid (shape file), but it has slight shift with my raster data. how can I shift and fit my shape file to the raster file?
Captures images might understand batter what I mean.

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Any help is appreciated,
many thanks in advance,
Sadra
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T__WayneWhitley
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I see what you are trying to do.  It appears as you said, that all you actually need is a 'shift'.  This you may do within an edit session of ArcMap, but to be safe better create a backup copy of your data -- at least that way, if the edit tools don't do what you expect and you don't know how to get back to the former state, then no worries...you still have the backup.

Accomplish this task by executing a 'select all' (you can do this manually as well) and use the edit tool to 'move' features all at once to the desired shifted location.  Hint:  I've done such moves before by zooming in after making the selection and even using the snapping environment to make it more precise.  You may have to make the vector layer the only selectable layer 1st, otherwise if you have other features selected from the same workspace, could have undesirable results.

Otherwise, if you want some sort of an automated means, particularly if you have, say, a corner coordinate XY origin and know its XY destination, then you can subtract to get the delta X and delta Y and use the technique here:

http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Moving_a_feature_relative_to_its_curre...
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