Latest Contributions by TomSmedley

The Army Geospatial Center is utilizing smart phones coupled with high accuracy GPS receivers to document military cemeteries around the world.  They want to be able to use Collector for ArcGIS with the newest iPhones that have a "portrait mode" that will blur out the background from the foreground.  Use Case: They currently must wait until people/visitors are out of view when collecting the headstone data.  In portrait mode they believe they could keep working with other visitors around as they will be blurred out from the front or back of the headstone picture. Result: Faster collection times across thousands of headstones. ... View more

The Army Geospatial Center’s Geopackage and Tiling Subject Matter Expert (SME) has requested we modify Add Raster to Geopackage in the following ways.   The enhancements would include:   Changing the title or description of the NSGPROFILE Tiling Scheme option to  NSG Profile World Mercator.  This would better align the options with the NSG Geopackage Profile specification. Adding support for a “NSG Profile WGS 84 Geographic”, based on the attached XML file.  The customer indicates that the reason for the “NSG Profile WGS 84 Geographic” is due to a wider-variety of Army Programs of Record (POR) support WGS84 out of the box as opposed to World Mercator.  ... View more

I'm a bit frustrated with Esri Maps for Office mapping by Congressional Districts.  The districts (as I understand it) are delineated via FIPS codes- and the corresponding numerals or letters. STATE     AL STATEFP     01 CD113FP     6 NAMELSAD     Congressional District 6 So I would think the minimum data fields you would need is STATEFP and CD113FP.  BUT, when you add your data via Excel and Esri Maps for Office and you select "More..." under Location Type and scroll down to US and Congressional Districts, then add  your data- you are prompted to point to a single column for "Choose the location information columns" and "Select location columns to continue".  So although is says "columns" plural- I don't see how to select more than one... See my line above- you need to ID by state and Cong. Dist. What am I doing wrong? Or is this just not possible?  I get errors on every row that is to be plotted...Nothing on the map. And I don't see how to fix the errors. ... View more

From the Army Geospatial Data Modeling Team: Users working with attribute tables frequently need to toggle between viewing coded value domains and subtype descriptions; these users could benefit greatly from a hot key function or button to perform this operation. The current process requires a four click process of selecting the menu button, selecting appearance, checking or un-checking the “display coded value domain and subtype descriptions” box and selecting OK button. This display coded value domain and subtype descriptions features toggle function is so frequently used it should be directly accessible from the attribute table window. This direct access could be achieved through hot key functions displayed next to the toggle button in the table Appearance window (Example 3) or a toggle button or switch on the table ribbon (Example 4). ... View more

From the Army Geospatial Data Modeling Team: Users working within attribute tables often toggle between viewing tables with aliases and viewing without aliases; it would be very helpful to have a hot key or button for the “Show Field Aliases” function. The current process requires selecting the menu button and checking and unchecking the show field alias box. This Show Field Alias feature is so frequently used it should be directly accessible from the table window. This direct access could be achieved through hot key functions displayed in the Show Field Aliases popup window (Example 1) or a toggle button or switch on the table ribbon (Example2). ... View more