Latest Contributions by MattWilkie2

Q for A1: How are the 2 sets of named users licensed and tracked? If we have 100 ANU do we also have 100 PNU? Or do we need to negotiate Portal NU licenses separately? ... View more

wrt "the date modified for file geodatabase feature class cannot be displayed in ArcCatalog.": It works in in ArcCatalog 10.3: (editor tracking is still a good idea). ... View more

very nice, thanks, again! FYI, here's a good thread on producing human readable byte sizes: python - Reusable library to get human readable version of file size? - Stack Overflow ... View more

Great, thanks Micah! ... View more

Hi Micah, thanks for this clear start to finish example of using python arcobjects. I hope you don't mind me taking the liberty of folding it into my (very slowly) growing py-arcobjects module(?) arcplus/ao.py at master · maphew/arcplus · GitHub ... View more

At the risk of trending off-topic, it's not access to the data that's the biggest risk. It's possible, and not very hard, to read native Esri file-gdb and to some extent SDE with QGIS and friends in place (as a matter of fact using the open source file-gdb driver you can read more data types than the official Esri file-gdb driver can). You don't get everything, relationship classes come to mind, but the core there. Similarly I can still read all the data for any of our thousands of archived ArcView 3 projects with any current GIS program today, regardless of whether they are free or very expensive. However without running the program we can't get to the projects, and that's important. Projects are where the business logic is, the queries stacked on queries. It's where the cartography is.It's where the value added thought goes. In ArcGIS Desktop it's in the .mxd's custom chained tools and scripts and models. ArcGIS Pro has it's own version of the same. In any given working-on-gis day I'll spend a quarter to a third of time on raw data creation and manipulation, the rest of the time is on things that aren't captured in shapefiles or database tables. In short, I'm not (very) concerned about losing access to the data. Data value is portable, more or less, with a relatively low investment and time and energy compared to exporting Project value. ... View more

My biggest concern, at the moment, is what happens when we need to open an old project that requires the old program? I'm in up to my eyeballs in ArcInfo and AML this month. That's not covered in the subscription temporary use model. If this were an Adobe project it wouldn't even be possible "rent" Acrobat v3 (or whatever) long enough to extract what is meaningful.  Digital obsolescence is bad enough all on it's own, bringing subscriptions and expiring-because-of-a-date programs in to the mix is just a bad idea, through and through.Don't touch that tar baby. ... View more