Merging different types (e.g., polygon with polyline) of shapefiles? I want to create a watershed shapefile with areas, streams and pour points in it.  Is there a way to merge the areas (polygons) with streams (polylines) and pourpoints (points)?
Multi-geometry shapefiles Since a shapefile can only contain a single geometry type (e.g. point, polygon, etc), how could I persist both?   If I must create a shapefile for each geometry type, how can I pass them to a colleague to load?  In kml I can just pass the single kml to load.  Is there a shapefile manifest equivalent that I am missing?
If you hash a string using SHA-256 on your computer, and I hash the same string using SHA-256 on my computer, will we generate the same value? Does the algorithm depend on a seed (so we'd both need the same seed) or some other such parameter?  edit:  To clarify, by 'string' I meant 'the same byte input', which as the comments and @ispiro's answer point out, may be different for the same character string depending on the encoding. I have to design a circuit in which I have to transfer data through lasers (serial transmission of data). Now what I was thinking was to check if the laser light is on then '1' is passed and when the laser is off '0' would be passed. Now I need to check if a 1 or a 0 was passed.   How would I check for this and another problem I'm facing is if it's on it may keep on passing 1's. How would I check for this? I though of using LDR's (Light Dependent Resistors)? Would this be okay or it there a better method? Where to get school zone shapefiles? Census.gov usually makes available the shapefiles containing school zone boundaries. Due to the US government shutdown, census.gov is down. Does anyone know where to download a recently archived copy? Down arrow button for choosing the desired site When searching for the desired SE site, the down arrow key (down) should work in order to choose the site one is looking for and hit enter to visit it, instead of using the mouse point to choose it. Would be pretty convenient. What is the best format to capture addresses for a universal user-base? What is the best and most usable format to capture address information from a universal user base? I was thinking to have the system detect the country by IP address and have that selected by default, and then state/province droplist would be populated accordingly. But the issue is some countries have states and provinces and some do not. Some have postal codes and some do not. Is there a universal standard to capture complete address info to ensure efficiency for most users?  FYI: I did research on here and while there are some questions that are close, none are about this exact same question (unless I missed something) What are the differences between sudo, su, visudo, chroot, and gksu? What are the differences between sudo, su, visudo, chroot, and gksu ? Domain Controller etiquette after a crash between Server 2003 & Server 2008 I have 2 domain controllers on a non-Internet connected network running Windows Server 2008 R2. They running RAID 5 on a 8 Hard Drive server. Sometime last week the Boot Sector became corrupt on DC1 and I was unable to recover the server. I am not going to have to rebuild the server. I have been reading about the changes from Server 2003 to Server 2008. DC1 was the main domain controller and now that it won't but it is all falling to DC2. I know that in previous versions of Windows Server you had to make on the primary and one the secondary. Since DC2 does not see DC1 anymore is there anything I need to do to DC2 as it is now the one in control? I am thinking some kind of meta data clean up but I can't find any hard information on what procedure to do. I understand as of Server 2008 domain controllers are on an equal footing and provide replication to each other so they should be the same correct? Get the size (size in Kb or MB) of an featured image? Did svchost.exe behaviour change in Windows 10 Creators Update (Build 1703)? Using first person or third person in papers? Use Complete Induction of set theory to prove $\frac{1}{\sqrt{1}} + \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} + \frac{1}{\sqrt{3}} + ... + \frac{1}{\sqrt{n}} > \sqrt{n}$. Proove by the Complete Induction for every $n\in \mathbb{N}, n \geq 1$ $$\frac{1}{\sqrt{1}} + \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} + \frac{1}{\sqrt{3}} + ... + \frac{1}{\sqrt{n}} &gt; \sqrt{n}$$.  I know only the basis - $\frac{1}{\sqrt{1}} \geq \sqrt{1}$.  But, I dont know how to do the change from the regular induction to the induction of Set theroy(Complete Induction). Proof $p \vdash q \Rightarrow p$ Firstly, how do I read it? Is below right? With braces   $$p \vdash (q \Rightarrow p)$$  The given proof is:    ${p}$, premise ${q}$, assumption  $p$ by (1) // what???  ${q} \Rightarrow p$ by implication introduction with 2 and 2.1 QED...    I can't really get the link between $p$ and $q$ in 2.1 ... Do votes get canceled if voting privilege is lost? If I'm below 15 reputation, I can't alter the public score of an answer/question.  Suppose I gain the privilege by getting the required rep and vote some posts up. Then, for any reason, I fall below 15 and lose the ability to vote. What about the votes I already did cast?  Do post scores get altered by ignoring my vote, or will they stay the same? In other words, is losing a privilege retroactive?  If yes, what about when I gain my privilege back? Are my votes automatically restored, or do I have to cast them again from scratch?  I made the easiest example, but this applies to any higher privilege How to parse JSON in Java Einstein-Hilbert action as an effective field theory I have read the following statement:      "The Einstein-Hilbert action can be seen as an effective field theory: setting $g_{\mu\nu}= \eta_{\mu\nu}+h_{\mu\nu}$, one gets a free Lagrangian for the field $h_{\mu\nu}$ plus interactions."   Now, how is it possible to define all the interaction terms?  EDIT: I ask apologize if my statement was appeared unclear: I have created a  which is more precise; please don't continue to consider seriously this one. GIS Point or discrete longitude and latitude columns? I see that the Point type is made to store geometric coordinates, however I don't see what problem it is trying to solve, or what advantages it offers over simply using two numerical columns. It's 16 bytes, so is it just an abstraction for two 8 byte floats? Or is it a string containing some kind of geohash that optimizes the performance of certain queries?  Let's say I want to get all the points for a specific viewport on a Leaflet map... with numerical columns representing latitude and longitude, I'd just filter for all the rows that have a latitude number between the N/S bounds and a longitude number between the E/W bounds, easy. I looked into using Point here, but the syntax is cumbersome and it seems to me like unnecessary overhead for development and for database performance... is it? How to avoid procrastination during the research phase of my PhD? How can I work with customize completion? I want to add some new auto-completion but I don't know How the wizard works. It's here: User>Customize Completion I don't know what should be writen in the box. Beamer and pseudocode How to prove that the radial basis function is a kernel? How to prove that the radial basis function $k(x, y) = \exp(-\frac{||x-y||^2)}{2\sigma^2})$ is a kernel? As far as I understand, in order to prove this we have to prove either of the following:   For any set of vectors $x_1, x_2, ..., x_n$ matrix $K(x_1, x_2, ..., x_n)$ = $(k(x_i, x_j))_{n \times n}$ is positive semidefinite. A mapping $\Phi$ can be presented such as $k(x, y)$ = $\langle\Phi(x), \Phi(y)\rangle$.   Any help?