Latest Contributions by HenryGlick

Hello, I am very new to ArcGIS for Server, but am working on setting up a basic enterprise system using Arc 10.1, IIS, and SQL Server 2012, where the SQL software is on a separate computer from the ArcGIS for Server and IIS software. I am having trouble making a direct connection to my SQL database from a remote client computer because I can't get access to the specific instance that has been established. When I make a database connection from ArcCatalog on a client computer, I am able to connect to SQL Server and gain access to the "ReportServer" and ReportServer TempDB" databases, but when I try to connect to the specific instance (e.g. <servername\instancename>) I get an error that it is unable to connect. When I check the "sdedc_SQL Server" file in the Temp folder, the log reads: IDBInitialize::Initialize Failed CAN"T OPEN INSTANCE: sde:sqlserver. Spatial Engine Connection Failed (-409). Cannot Get Access to Instance see:sqlserver I am able to connect to the specific instance and the database of interest from within ArcCatalog on the computer that houses SQL Server 2012, suggesting that this is just a matter of setting the proper permissions for the instance. I have all the permissions set and ports open that I know of or could find info on, but no luck. Is anyone able to provide guidance on how to resolve this? Any suggestions are welcome. Many thanks! ... View more

As far as I know, ESRI has not released a best practices document on file naming, other than length, no special characters, no spaces, etc.. Until this exists -- and it may never -- it will be difficult to organize disparate data in one geodatabase. As a highly "visual" software, where many users rely less on text than on imagery, I would love to see the ability to color code file names, as is possible on a Mac. Instead of searching though 200 names looking for a file with an obscur name, you know to look for purple. ... View more

As far as I know, ESRI has not released a best practices document on file naming, other than length, no special characters, no spaces, etc.. Until this exists -- and it may never -- it will be difficult to organize disparate data in one geodatabase. As a highly "visual" software, where many users rely less on text than on imagery, I would love to see the ability to color code file names, as is possible on a Mac. Instead of searching though 200 names looking for a file with an obscur name, you know to look for purple. ... View more

Does anyone know what the default reclassification scheme is for the Reclassify tool, when you have a raster symbolized using a gradient? When you drag a file in, it creates 255 bins. But, when I try to replicate the bins using one of the schemes in the drop-down menu, I can't seem to find one that corresponds. I wasn't able to locate any info on this, and can't find the system folder where I might check/alter this. Thoughts?? Along similar lines, I am struggling to rationalize reclassification choices for severely right-skewed data. The goal is to reclassify while maintaining as much of a gradient/pseudo gradient as possible, and to be able to compare composite habitat suitability models with disparate data. That is, I could compare models that had 0-100 scales defined by equal intervals, but not by Jenk's optimization - since the classes are based on variability within each dataset. It seems that unless I group outliers with much lower values, when I isolate "top" ranking habitat, I end up with virtually no suitable area. I've been around the block on this one, and feel like I am bashing my head against a wall. I would love to hear any clever, statistically sound, or simple-yet-overlooked approaches that I might try. Thanks, HG ... View more

I have several rasters that do not seem to line up, despite having been created using the same snap-raster and processing extent. They each cover numerous states at a 30m cell size. One is a polygon-to-raster conversion of town polygons. The others are rasters that were extracted-by-mask using a dissolved form of the town polygon layer. I feel as though I have tried everything to remedy this issue. I've tried re-extracting them all, changing processing extents, changing snap rasters, re-projecting them, and resampling them. Yet, they continue to be misaligned by about a cell, in some areas only. When I am zoomed-out, I can see one showing behind the other at outside edges of the extracted image, on both sides of the image, where a column or row of value-laden pixels changes to NoData. As I zoom in, much of what I see goes away, but not all of it. If I zoom in a lot, there are still some cells that are misaligned, and in using the identify tool, I find that they do actually have values and are not visual artifacts. While I don't think that I need to meet this level of precision with my current work, I would really like to understand what is happening here... Whether it is a product of my order of operations, a program error, issues with the projection, etc. Any thoughts would be most appreciated! -HG ... View more