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I too miss the cross hairs! And a more obvious color change would be great as well. When zoomed out looking at large areas the cross hairs were great for finding a more specific area of the city where the point was that I had selected.
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I work for a water and sewer district and our old paper records use swing ties to locate assets like valves, curb stops, manholes, clean outs, etc... These swing ties are simply 2 measurements off of fixed objects, mainly foundation corners. Where the 2 swing and intersect is the location of the asset. In ArcMap10 in the Editor Toolbar and Feature Construction Toolbar there is a Distance-Distance tool that makes drawing these assets really easy by drawing two intersecting circles. We are using a GPS to locate assets and correct our maps but for buried assets like a sewer service connection to a main or a 45deg bend in a pipe these swing ties are the only thing we have to draw assets as accurately as we can. I also use the swing ties to double check GPS points that "look off". Sometimes we collect bad points and need to re-shoot the GPS point. It appears this tool is no longer available in ArcGIS Pro. Why was it removed? And can it be added back in please? This tool helps immensely. Without this tool I have to create extra circle features and then delete them after I create an asset point at the intersection. This is extra work and time consuming.
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I believe figured out the bug in the software. I started playing around with the redlining on my desktop. I discovered that if you make a mark and then pan or zoom with the scroll wheel on the mouse the markup became offset or scaled based on your action. Same if you use the scroll bars on the side and bottom. If I make a mark and then select the pan tool and move around the markup stays where it should. So the bug appears that the markup doesn�??t recognize the mouse (or scroll bars) as actually executing a pan/zoom command. The markup seems to be in limbo until another command is executed. It doesn�??t matter what the command is, it could be the measure tool or identify tool. Once you click on a tool it finalizes the redline. Then you are free to use the scroll wheel to pan/zoom without messing up the redline. It would be great to see a fix to this bug. We are only a week into doing field inspections using the markup tools in ArcRead and have found some great benefit in it. The main reason for choosing ArcReader was it's free (as long as you have a Publisher license). I'm working on publishing various maps for field use and purchasing more tablets. Having it free really helps me roll this out to more staff with the ability to publish maps specific for each persons/project use.
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06-13-2012
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Just bought a new Samsung Series 7 Slate tablet. I've published a map for field use and I'm getting errors with the markup tool. I will draw redline markups and they will appear fine. I'll continue working and making more markups during the day. Then all of a sudden I'll discover all my recent markups are randomly offset and not displaying where I drew them on the map. I don't think it's a projection or coordinate issue. It's very random, all the markups are not offset the same. I've been doing manhole inspections and putting a check mark next to manholes I've inspected. Manholes I've not been able to inspect I will circle and make a note. I'm really confused and don't understand what could be going wrong. Here is a screen shot as to what it looks like. You can see how the checks and circles are not next to or around a manhole symbol. Anyone else having a similar problem? Is there a setting that is causing this that I can change? Or do you think it's just an issue with my tablet? [ATTACH=CONFIG]15102[/ATTACH]
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