Latest Contributions by JoshuaYoung

Thank you for your response. I have already adjusted the road label placement in our basemaps so that the road names always appear on screen. I ended up not changing the municipal boundary in the basemap because our users prefer having the municipal boundary as an operational layer, so we just use the municipal boundary operational layer to clearly delineate where the municipal boundary ends. However, as we move away from ArcMap and go to Portal I hope to transition our users to having the municipal boundary in the basemap instead of an operational layer in every web map. So there is renewed interest in clearly marking the edge of the municipal boundary in our basemaps. ... View more

We published and use the General Purpose and Imagery Reference Overlay. We have really like the color schemes of those basemaps.  The biggest issues with the General Purpose was the readability of the labels, the lack of repeating road names, and difficultly seeing where the city limits end. The labels are a little difficult to read in vector format and they become even more difficult to read once the basemap is rasterized. The lack of repeating road labels made you pan around the map at certain scales to find the name of a road that you were looking at. The transition from "in the city" to "out of the city" is hard to see on some monitors. It would be nice to add a dashed line to clarify the point of transition. The main things that we changed for the Imagery Reference Overlay were making the road labels repeat, increasing the transparency of the road lines, and enabled symbol levels on the road lines. We also looked at using Mobile Day, Mobile Night, Public Safety, and Zoning. However, we ended up not using any of them. The Mobile Day and Mobile Night were too difficult to read once rasterized. Our map service for Public Safety would not work properly in our police and fire departments systems and they ended up continuing to use the Esri Streets basemap. The Zoning basemap's road labels were too difficult to read and our users preferred having zoning as an operational layer instead of a basemap. Going forward, I am trying to convince city administration to allow us to participate in the Community Maps Program so we can just leverage Esri's basemaps but still see our data. I like the symbology of Esri's vector basemaps. The only thing that is missing are address labels, but we can always overlay those ourselves for our maps. I should add that we will not be moving to vector basemaps until they support exporting/printing across most of platform. ... View more

ArcGIS Pro 1.4 is out now and it includes dynamic legends and feature counts. Hooray! Here's how to get to the settings: Open a layout in ArcGIS Pro Expand the legend element in the Contents pane Right-click a layer in the legend element Left-click Properties You will find the new options under Feature Display Options in the Format Legend Item pane ... View more

As of ArcGIS Pro 1.3.1, it has NOT been included. I hear Pro 1.4 is supposed to be released this month and that will be one of the first things I look for. I will let you know if I find it or not. ... View more

Is there a change log for the 10.2.1 release? On a side note, don't install ArcGIS for Windows Mobile 10.2.1 if you are using Trimble Positions. Trimble Positions currently does not support 10.2.1 (I tried updating before Trimble officially announced the incompatibility) and if you have upgraded to ArcGIS for Desktop 10.3 you have to roll back to ArcGIS for Desktop 10.2.2 to get the mobile tools to activate again. It's things like this that make me look forward to the changes coming in ArcGIS Collector later this year. It has not been much fun trying to keep ArcGIS and Trimble in sync with each other, though I will admit Trimble has gotten better about releasing close to if not before major Esri updates. ... View more

This is what I have heard and this is from a post back in July 2014: "Currently there are no updates planned for the ArcGIS for Windows Mobile program but we encourage you to test out our other mobile applications such as Collector for ArcGIS, Explorer for ArcGIS, and Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS." Here is a link to the post: ArcGIS for Windows Mobile version and download I really do not understand why Esri is being so silent on their mobile plans for the Windows platform. I asked about their mobile plans for the Windows platform at the 2013 User Conference and no one from Esri would give me any kind of an answer. ... View more

Thank you for the reply but unfortunately we are already doing both of those things.  Our ArcGIS Server account is a domain account and the link you provided is the same help document that I used to created our Export Web Map service for printing secure services. What I cannot figure out is why Windows Authentication causes it to fail but HTTP Basic and HTTP Digest work just fine. Obviously, it is not using the credentials that I supplied when publishing the Export Web Map tool and it is not using the user's credentials that requested the print. I had figured that one of those credentials would have been used to run the print service but it seems like another credential is being used instead. But why would ArcGIS Server do that when it uses the correct credentials for any other kind of service that it is running? ... View more