Latest Contributions by RichardDaniels

Second issue to beware of, if you have a DELL computer, they released several DirectX12 driver updates for their graphics cards. Run Dell Command Update Center to check for driver updates. We have several machines that had graphics display issues that were resolved once the November 14, 2025 graphic driver updates were installed.   ... View more

One key change with ArcGIS Pro 3.4 and higher is the requirement to use DirectX 12 vs. 11, might check if your machine is supporting that. Some users may experience color rendering or display issues when using DirectX 12, prompting a switch to DirectX 11 or OpenGL for troubleshooting. ... View more

They are NOT the same! Act of Congress does not magically update your Survey Deeds, Records, or To Reach Descriptions in 225 years of historic documents. ... View more

hard to believe NOAA actually said this...because a Survey Foot is not equal in length to a US Foot or International Foot. Over long distances the difference can be significant. Just saying this does not magically update all 225 years of historic records.         ... View more

Most likely you are running out of memory while the new imagery is being integrated into the mosaic.  If you checked your DEV environment, you will probably find it has 1/2 the memory of your production environment (especially if they used a default VM to create the server with 8 GB memory). Second thing to think about is how you are loading the new images, are they adjacent to each other or are you loading them 'randomly' over the mosaic area. Why? If you load 9 adjacent images, then then we only need to load the tiles that overlap the new imagery to update them. Otherwise, we may need to load the entire set (e.g., if you loaded one new image at the bottom left and another on the top right of your mosaic then the entire mosaic will need to be read at some point to update the mosaic). ... View more

to start the discussion, the Aggregate Polygons license information is as follows: Basic: No Standard: No Advanced: Yes To recreate this yourself you could use the Geoprocessing  tool - Generate Near Table. For each input feature you will get a distance and bearing to the 'near features' out to your selected distance. The results will show you the polygons candidates for merge. The closest thing to aggregate polygons is the Editing tool Modify/Merge Features that allow you combine two or move selected features.  You could use the Table generated by the 1st command to select candidate polygons, then activate the Merge/Modify Feature tool, save, then move to next candidate. ... View more

In many browsers the file:// url path is not supported. Also since .xlsm is a Excel Open XML Macro-Enabled Spreadsheet. Most likely being blocked for security reasons. ... View more

If you get to the point where it starts writing data, it can take a long time (days) if you are reading and writing on the same disk. Ensure you are reading and writing results from/to different disks to avoid 'race' conditions.  ... View more

well, Lidar derived elevations are originally referenced to a Geoid elevation or NAVD88. Those elevations are in reference to a fixed geoid model, while MLW and MLLW are not. Translation to tidal datums should be done based on the published survey data for a specific tidal station (s). See tidal.gif (880×680) for reference. ... View more

If it is 'back' for ArcGIS Pro I would check the shortcut again since a ArcGIS Pro upgrade (3.4. to 3.5) or a Service Pack install could have replaced the shortcut itself. In Task manager you can see if Pro is running in Efficiency mode (it will show the green leaf if it is).   ... View more

There is option to SET the output cell sizes vs. letting it default. Notice 1 row and column was added, most likely the projection being used has rotation causing these to be added. ... View more

ArcGIS Pro 3.4 change the default driver from DirectX 11 to DirectX 12. Ways to resolve are to (1) ensure you have the newest DirectX 12 graphics driver, (2) change default back to DirectX 11, or (3) change default to OpenGL. Graphic card options can be set in Pro's options->display tab. ... View more

A good option would be Microsoft SQL Server Express or Microsoft SQL Server Local DB. Both support standard T-SQL and one or more databases (on Express) with no licensing costs.  It has some limitations, such as a maximum database size of 10 GB and support for only 1 GB of memory and 1 physical processor.  Use Microsoft SQL Server Manager to manage your database.   Links: Download Microsoft® SQL Server® 2022 Express from Official Microsoft Download Center ... View more

just and FYI, adobe remembers your last settings. So if you use a Adobe driver 'outside of ArcGIS Pro' for printing those settings may carry over into ArcGIS Pro (or ArcMap).  ... View more

probably defaulting to 97 dpi, try to set the output parameters with print to pdf vs. export/save to pdf. ... View more