Latest Contributions by AndrewMeador

‎06-25-2015

This was a one time walk in customer - so not really possible to take this approach, and on the rare occasion that I have this happen, I would probably have to setup their GPS unit for them before they collected their data - which inherently won't happen as they don't come to me until they have their data in the first place.

‎06-25-2015

Yep, I figured it out. After staring at it for a while, the degrees were obvious and it finally hit me - OH! It's giving minutes and seconds by having a fractional minute! Did the conversion and found a video showing how to import the coordinate via an Excel spreadsheet. This then allowed displaying it based on the source datum - which I assume is WGS84. It's still not where the item is supposed to be, but I'm beginning to suspect GPS Unit/User error on the collecting side. Deep wooded area with leaves on the trees - we're lucky to get a reading at all in those conditions. Anyway, thanks!

‎06-25-2015

I have been given coordinate for a GPS point and need to plot the point on our GIS system. This is the coordinates: 39 13.532 -79 40.027 I know about the Degrees Minutes Seconds format and decimal format, but I don't know what this format is or how to import it into the system. I can put this into Bing Maps and it comes close to the location of where the point should be, but it off by a few hundred feet. So I'm assuming it's due to differing coordinate/datum systems. I will need to get with them to verify their settings, but will need to project to our data which is NAD_1983_StatePlane_West_Virginia_North_FIPS_4701_Feet. The main question I guess is what to do with these coordinates - I don't know how to work with this format and what's the best way to get them into the ArcMap software? Thanks!

‎07-17-2012

Chris, that did the trick. Customize...Extensions...Checked my custom extension. Now it works fine! I removed the custom toolbar and button and ended with the following code: import arcpy import pythonaddins class MyDDPTools_clsSyncDataFrameRotation(object): """Implementation for DDPTools_addin.clsSyncDataFrameRotation (Extension)""" def __init__(self): # For performance considerations, please remove all unused methods in this class. self.enabled = True def pageIndexExtentChanged(self, new_id): mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("Current") df1, df2 = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd) df2.rotation = df1.rotation # print "pageIndexExtentChanged Event" # print "Rotation DF1: " + str(round(df1.rotation, 2)) # print "Rotation DF2: " + str(round(df2.rotation, 2)) pass I appreciate your help - hopefully others can see and use this as well. Thanks!

‎07-16-2012

I followed your suggestions. I ended up with a Python script as follows: import arcpy import pythonaddins class MyDDPTools_clsSyncDataFrameRotation(object): """Implementation for DDPTools_addin.clsSyncDataFrameRotation (Extension)""" def __init__(self): # For performance considerations, please remove all unused methods in this class. self.enabled = True def pageIndexExtentChanged(self, new_id): mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("Current") df1, df2 = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd) df2.rotation = df1.rotation print "pageIndexExtentChanged Event" print "Rotation DF1: " + df1.rotation print "Rotation DF2: " + df2.rotation pass class btnPrevPage(object): """Implementation for DDPTools_addin.btnPrevPage (Button)""" def __init__(self): self.enabled = True self.checked = False def onClick(self): mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT") topDF = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "Layers")[0] bottomDF = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "Shadow")[0] if mxd.dataDrivenPages.currentPageID > 1: mxd.dataDrivenPages.currentPageID = mxd.dataDrivenPages.currentPageID - 1 bottomDF.rotation = topDF.rotation print "btnPrevPage" print "Rotation topDF: " + str(round(topDF.rotation,2)) print "Rotation bottomDF: " + str(round(bottomDF.rotation,2)) pass I created a custom toolbar with a custom button (the lower class in the code) that would allow me to click a 'Previous' button and have it to adjust the rotation based on the button_click code. I also used your code and made it an add-in extension responding the the event you mentioned. My button works, but the pageIndexExtentChanged event does not seem to get called. The debug 'prints' in the code shows in the Python command window for my button, but nothing prints when using the Data Driven Pages Toolbar nav buttons to change pages. Maybe a different event I should code to? Is there something else wrong that I did not see? I set the extension properties to load on application startup as well. Any ideas? Thanks!

‎07-13-2012

I have read through some posts and found some Python code to help but it's not quite where I need it. I am usind Data Driven Pages (DDP) with two data frames in ArcMap (ArcEditor) 10.1. The layout has two data frames. The first data frame ("Layers") is where parcels are drawn with annotation etc... The seond data frame ("Shadow") sits over "Layers" and shows only the parcel lines from the 'maps' surrounding the active 'map' in grey - with no annotations. Some of the 'maps' have to be rotated to fit properly and that is handled with a field called Rotation in the DDP index layer (DistMap in my case). So, when I move from page to page in the DDP toolbar, then "Layers" data frame rotates properly, but the "Shadow" data frame does not. "Shadow" data frame sets it's extent and scale from the "Layers" data frame - but ArcDesktop is lacking an option to also have the "Shadow" data frame to match the Rotation of the other data frame. So I have found posts on this topic, but not the solution I'm looking for. I want the rotation to happen for the "Shadow" data frame when I move from page to page in the DDP toolbar. Code that I have found/modified so far is: import arcpy mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT") topDF = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "Layer")[0] bottomDF = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "Shadow")[0] for DDP_Page in range(1, (mxd.dataDrivenPages.pageCount)): >>>>mxd.dataDrivenPages.currentPageID = DDP_Page >>>>angle = mxd.dataDrivenPages.pageRow.getValue("MapGrid.Rotation") # Make sure to use the table.field format to work correctly >>>>bottomDF.rotation = angle >>>># arcpy.mapping.ExportToPDF(mxd, r"C:\project\Map_20k_B" + str(DDP_Page) + ".pdf") # Add this line to export the data page - rotated for pdf file But, the problem here is that the last data driven page pagerow record sets the angle used by the mxd current map document - not the individual data pages in the data driven pages. So, then when you iterate through the data driven pages with the DDP, after running this script, the last angle used on the last DDP page is used for all the pages. I'm thus thinking that the way to solve this would be to attach to an event - like a DDP_PageChanged type of event to call the Python code to change the page rotation as the pages are navigated in the DDP toolbar. I also understant that VBA support is going away and I need a solution that will work down the line. Is there a way to do this? I have been using ArcGIS software for about 5 years now (since 9.2) - so I am pretty familiar with the software - but I don't have much experience coding with VBA or Python for things like this. My main coding in Arc stuff has been using VBA for labeling feature classes. I took a class in ArcObjects for .NET a coupole of years ago - however it was a broken course - mostly taught on VB6 - COM methods instead of .NET and the part covering setup of installers for your tools was covered extremely fast and brushed over - so if I have to create a new tool of do this with .NET verses VBA or Python - that's fine, but will need pretty detailed help. Thanks!

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Re: What type of coordinates are these and how do I project them?

Re: What type of coordinates are these and how do I project them?

What type of coordinates are these and how do I project them?

Re: Can Python respond to events? Want to fix data frame rotation issue.

Re: Can Python respond to events? Want to fix data frame rotation issue.

Can Python respond to events? Want to fix data frame rotation issue.