Latest Contributions by JeffRoland

Greg, I had the same question about the future of ArcGIS Desktop. I've just spent 10 minutes on the ESRI site looking for ArcGIS Desktop. I can't find it. If you go up to Products, it isn't listed as one of the main products. If you click on More to see all of ESRI's products, it is listed. HOWEVER, if you click on it then you are taken to the ArcGIS Pro page. ??? It seems as if they are already trying to wipe it from our memories. I have spent the last 2 days trying to learn to do one of my projects in PRO. There are a few things I like such as anti-alias maps, but there are far more things I don't like such as the lack of customization of the user interface. The old method of opening any tool bar and docking it where I liked is far superior to this ribbon user interface. Switching between ribbons is counter productive. It's also harder to customize the ribbons. Gone are the days when you could just make your own toolbar with the few tools you needed for a specific repetitive task. Grant it, I'm still learning PRO and I'm sure it will grow on me in time. However, I don't think it's quite ready for prime time yet. I experienced several bugs just trying to edit tables and it doesn't seem to have all the capabilities that ArcMap does. ... View more

Jesse, Your site certainly has a lot of functionality! I laughed when I heard that submarine ping sound. Some of the widgets such as the 'draw tools' are certainly in the JS samples but you will definitely have to customize them to get to look how you want them to look or act. They are very basic. You're probably aware of this but you can actually test out these samples on the developers site. Like I said before, I'm not the web programmer so I can't say much more about the actual effort it took us to develop/customize our sites. But our programmer built the basic foundation of the site with a few tools that we knew our clients would need. As time went on he would add a new tool or functionality. In that respect it seems very scalable. You could take the same approach since you have a JS background. I'm just going to throw this out there, since it's a part of our business. As a timesaver,  you could start with a solid platform like our site and then customize and add tools from there. Our sites have some tools/functionality that yours does not, for example: StreetView, Locate via gps, and Search History . Other functions like the draw tools you'd have to add yourself or we could develop for you. Check out the Iberia Parish Assessor's site: http://atlas.geoportalmaps.com/iberia/ Most of the site you can probably figure out. Street View is launched from the person icon when you do an identify on a parcel. Small parcels have a better result since it takes the centroid of the parcel to find the closest street view. Also note that the info panel has pictures/sketches. Let me know if you have any questions. Jeff Roland Sr. GIS Analyst Geographic Computer Technologies, LLC. Metairie, LA ... View more

No problem, cheers! ... View more

Make sure your field names in the Excel files do no violate any typical ArcGIS and dbf field naming rules. For example: 1. do not start a field name with a number 2. No crazy characters 3. No spaces 4. keep the field names short as possible etc... If all else fails, use Excel to convert the spreadsheet to a dbf file. Then bring the .dbf file into ArcMap and join to the shapefile. ... View more

I've never tried it but there is a KML to Layer tool in ArcToolbox>Conversion>From KML I think it's usable across all license levels. Jeff ... View more

OK, if you have Arc10.0, then go to http://www.ian-ko.com/ and download the ETGeowizards version for ArcGIS 10.0 There is a version matrix on the Downloads page. There is a side link to the Free Tools and the conversion that you're looking for is under the free tools so you should be good to go. ... View more

Have you selected a template yet? If not, you will have to select a template before the create features tools will become active. If not template is available then you have to create a template in Organize Templates button in the Create Features Window. ... View more

Arc 10.3? Is that a beta version? Anyway, if you have the ArcGIS Advanced (ArcInfo) license you can do this in ArcTools>Data Management Tools>Features>Features to Polygons. If you don't have an Advanced license then ET GeoWizards is the next best thing to use. I'm not sure if you will have to purchase  a registered version or not. Some of the tools are free but others require you to purchase the program. Cheers- Jeff ... View more

Here's a better way to get your icons full size: 1. Save your 32x32 bitmap as a icon file format .ico (You may already have a graphics program capable of this. If not, then GIMP is a free program that can convert) 2. Configure your tool button image to the file name but leave out the .ico and leave out any file path. By default Arcpad will assume it's a .ico file and look inside the \icons folder where ArcPad is installed. 3. Copy the icon file to your mobile device where ArcPad is installed inside the \icons folder Cheers, Jeff ... View more