Hello, I have a problem with too many layers and I'm not sure what to do, I have data from many places e.g. "geographic data 2012" "geographic data 2013" "land data 2012" "land data 2013" etc and they each have slightly different information, I have put them all on arc and tryed to meagre them but I get an error and some points will not meagre, so I have had to just group them, this come into a problem when I try and perform various analysis on them however as I have over 400 layers and it becomes unfeasible. Please let me know if I am coming about this all wrong and any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
If the schema (fields) are the same, you could create an empty feature class with all the fields. Add a field for (Source or something like that), then append the data in the FC you just created.
I am sure there are other ways, but that one came to mind first........
Hi George thank you so much for your reply, I'm not very competent with Arc yet can you explain what you mean in a little more detail at all?
Here are some more details and the help docs of the workflow:
Create Feature Class: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/feature-classes/create-a-feature-class.htm#ESRI_S...
You may want to import the schema on Step 2 and add fields as needed
Then append the data layer to the one you created above: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/data-management/append.htm
Think all "geographic data ####" layers would be loaded
Once all the data is in the same layer, you could have a field (that you created earlier) calculated to what the source was: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/data-management/calculate-field.htm
This would put all the data into a single feature class.
Hope this helps you down the correct path....
Thanks George, thats amazingly helpful