Fishnet with checkerboard symbology

Arsheen

Hi Everyone!

I am to figure out a way to symbolize a fishnet with a black and white checkerboard pattern. As a part of my work, I  develop grids for activity and every other grid has to shaded to limit activity. Every grid I make is of different size and shape. I have been trying to figure out some type of symbology expression to get this done but haven't quite figured it out. 

I got close with numbering the grid cells and using an odd/even function but this doesn't always work. 

Any help would be appreciated!

This is what it should look like:

This is what I get with my Odd/even approach

 

jcarlson

Consider combining the row and column identifiers to make the color shift per row. I don't know what your layer attributes look like, but if they were both numbers, it could be as simple as:

var x = $feature['column_number']
var y = $feature['row_number']

return Iif(x % 2 == y % 2, 'A', 'B')

If your fishnet has values like "A-32" for the grid ID, do this:

var id = Split($feature.GRID_ID, '-')
var x = ToCharCode(id[0])
var y = Number(id[1])

return iif(x % 2 == y % 2, 'A', 'B')

 

Offhand, I don't know what fishnet grids do after "Z". Does it start going "AA"? That may add a little kink to things, but maybe your grids aren't that big.