Latest Contributions by GrantHopkins

Hi Clayton, If your annotation feature is a multi-part feature and has curvature then I believe you'll have to change that before you can stack. This is the workflow that has worked for me... Right click the annotation feature and "Convert to Single Part" Right click the annotation feature and select "Curvature" then "Horizontal" Then edit your text in the Annotation Attribute window by adding an Enter after each word to format it the way you'd like I hope this helps! Grant ... View more

Mike, thank you for sharing that with us. I tried your work around and it works. It is a bit cumbersome to add in all that text and formatting with each record so hopefully this can be fixed by someone at Esri! Grant ... View more

Hi Danik, Thank you for your reply. I feel a bit silly as I confused the two units we have. We just bought a Geo7X with ArcPad and I'm using ArcGIS for Windows Mobile on my T41. It's the T41 with AGS for Windows Mobile that won't connect to the GPS. Sooooo I'm in the wrong Forum. Do you have a T41 successfully connecting to the GPS with AGS for Windows Mobile? Sorry about the confusion! Grant ... View more

Which model Junos are you using? We recently purchased a few Juno T-41s to replace some of our aging Nomads.  Overall we are happy with them, they have good processing power, good memory and lots of storage.  So far we haven't had any issues with the GPS.  We don't use the camera much but it seems fine. One thing, the capacitive screen is very annoying when working with ArcPad.  You can't use any type of object as a stylus you have to use your finger or a special blunt stylus which makes it very difficult to be precise.  Some of our bigger lads just refuse to use the new Junos because of this problem, their stubby fingers just aren't compatible. The battery on the new Junos is not as long lasting as the Nomads but it does manage to last a workday.  One thing that I did notice was that when the ArcPad Today plug-in was installed the battery drained very quickly.  I've since uninstalled the plug-in from all Junos and the battery is lasting the workday. Hi Danik, We recently purchased a Juno T-41 but it will not connect to the onboard GPS via ArcPAD. I'm curious as to what OS and firmware version are you using on your T-41's? Thank you! Grant ... View more

Geodatabases change. We constantly add new layers of information as we continue to grow our GIS program. Esri please update replication to allow for addition or name changes of feature classes and tables. ... View more

Yes, this enhancement would be very beneficial! Especially if Esri is pushing the Local Government Data Model. It is very large and since we've completely adopted it we found it very annoying to have to put all of the data into ArcMap in order to get at this functionality in the wizard. ... View more

RayMcGowan;110568 wrote: I've been trying, without success, to create a set of routes from a bunch of line segments. The CreateRoute tool will read the line segment shape file and create a route layer however the routes which are created are a bit of a mess. The original line segments are discontinuous and occasionally at one of these discontinuities in the created route the route will change direction - I assume it's reverting to the digitised direction of the original line segment, though I'm not sure. I don't have any measure field for the line segments so I'm allowing ArcGis to use the length as the measure source and specifying the coordinate priority...QUOTE] Hi there, I think I can speak to your first issue with the Create Routes tool. When using this tool it won�??t necessarily take into consideration your digitized direction. Instead it will either use the From and To Measure sources (Measure Source = Two Fields) OR the Coordinate Priority (Measure Source = Length) as where to start the route and end it. So as a work around I believe you will either have to have From and To measures for each line segment and make sure they are accumulating for each proposed route. OR You could run the Dissolve tool and dissolve on the route ID, then create a From and To field on this intermediate layer. Use field calculator and make all the From measures = 0 and make all the To measures = [Shape_Length]. It is important that your digitized directions are in the order you want for each line segment for this intermediate step. Now take this layer and create a route from it using the Two Fields option. NOTE* This process will work for discontinuous roads/segments provided they share a start and end node. I can�??t figure out how to make this work for multipart routes (i.e. roads that end at a cross section and then start up after a short jog to the left or right down a cross road). I hope this helps, Grant P.S. Any input from you or anyone would be appreciated. ... View more

Grant, LENGTH is the default option when you use the CREATE ROUTES tool.  Might be fastest to just recreate the routes and select that option.  A way of checking graphically might be to HATCH your routes and compare the end value hatch labels to the length. Hardolph Hi Hardolph, Thanks for your reply!! That's exactly what I need to do EXCEPT for the whole Coordinate Priority. Is there a way to use the accumulating lengths for each line but have them accumulate in the digitize direction? I need to keep my routes in a specific way (in increasing civic address direction), I'm trying to avoid having to go to each road and flip it if it's been changed due to the coordinate priority. I hope this makes sense. Thanks! Grant ... View more

Hi Andrew, Will this sample code run in ArcGIS 9.3.1? Do you think ESRI would ever implement and support this sort of tool? This would be very helpful. Thanks, Grant You can't edit events by starting with line features and going from there how you describe, at least not without making a custom program for this. You can edit events by selecting them and opening the Attributes dialog, and then editing their values. You can also edit them in the Table window. There is this sample code for adding events: http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/ArcGISDesktop/com/samples/Linear_Referencing/Editing/Digitize_Events/f590f7ab-662c-41c1-9d8d-d105e020ef49.htm. It's unsupported, but it may cover some of your needs. Andrew ... View more