Latest Contributions by MattSmith6

We generate feature outline masks for cartography purposes, but since switching much of our operation from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro have noticed the Feature Outline Masks tool doesn't work fully when trying to carry across attributes from the  annotation to the new mask polygons. The polygons create fine, but when the problems occurs when the Transfer Attributes parameter is set to "All attributes" or "All attributes except the FID field". Most of the attributes are not coming across. Have seen this raised elsewhere with no response. Feature Outline Mask - Esri Community Feature outline masks not saving content - Esri Community It probably needs to be addressed.   Running v2.9.3 w Advanced license.   ... View more

Asking for some help on a task I'm dealing with. I have a field (PLAN) with a string that I'd like to split into two separate text fields (PLAN_PFX & PLAN_NUM). Each entry is predictable in the sense that it will be 1-5 alphabetic characters followed by 1-6 numeric characters. Alphabetic characters are always upper-case. So what I need to do is something like... PLAN PLAN_PFX PLAN_NUM A305 A 305 BTR86542 BTR 86542 RP808112 RP 808112 WR8 WR 8 I know I'm going to need to use Regular Expression for it. I've tried a few methods just focusing on calculating for PLAN_NUM initially but I'm just fumbling around in the dark really. PLAN_NUM = regex(!PLAN!) import re def regex(text):     split_list = re.split(r'[A-Z]', text)     return split_list[-1] But this just returns a blank entry. Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance. ... View more

My team currently maintains a series of cached raster basemaps over our state, and I've been experimenting with generating the same effect with vector tiles. However, the generated hosted VTPK file renders differently inside ArcGIS online than it does when viewing the same layer. There are certain scales (in my case L10 and L15) where this occurs. The first image is the ArcGIS Pro project at L15. It's still a work in progress, but I'm pretty happy with it so far. The next image shows the VTPK hosted on ArcGIS Online over the same area at L15. The labelling is a little funky and not as precise or dense as the original - it stacks, overlaps and overruns where I don't really want it to, but whatever, it's early days.   The final image shows the same scale and extent, but via the AGOL viewer. As you can see, barely any labels (curiously the Depot Hill label is missing from the above image). And it doesn't matter whether I'm viewing the hosted layer via a map viewer or Web App. Or Chrome, Edge or Safari. Any ideas on what might be causing this? Link to the tiler layer: https://tiles.arcgis.com/tiles/HrMiNYsSqqPpLTDE/arcgis/rest/services/QldBase_Pastel_v2p1/VectorTileServer  ... View more

At present, there doesn't seem the full suite of capability in ArcGIS Pro to edit annotation feature classes. I do a lot of work (and mean A LOT) editing annotation for roads and watercourses. A great feature of ArcMap is being able to straighten one part of a multipart annotation feature. Here's how it looks in ArcMap 10.4.1: In ArcGIS Pro 2.3.3 it looks as though a lot of the menu has been brought across from ArcMap, but the functionality is not enabled. This may actually be a bug more than anything else. This idea could be considered as a addendum to this idea already raised: Bring back ArcMap style Move and Rotate tools for annotation in Pro.  I know not everyone uses annotation feature classes, but for those cartographers amongst us are probably heavier users. ... View more