Latest Contributions by PBSEngineering_and_Environment

My company has ArcMap Desktop Basic level license. Due to budget constraints we cannot upgrade at this time. We have a client that has sent us 2 geodatabase templates as XML files. Project data needs to be delivered to the client in these geodatabases. At the Basic license level Import from XML Workspace is not an option. Are there any other options out there for importing from XML? I have been having a hard time finding any options. I have very limited experience implementing code, ArcPy, add-ons, etc. Thanks in advance for the input. Chris ... View more

I was wondering what might be the best approach for my scenario. I have a map series (data driven pages) for a 100-mile long easement. These maps will be part of a report that will go to multiple agencies with different requirements and asking for different projections. I have one map set in WGS-1984 (as this was asked for for digital and printed format, hmmm...) anyway, one map set in WGS-1984 GCS. I need to create another map set in a state plane system for a state agency. The maps have between 7 and 15 layers present. Do I need to re-project all of these and create a whole new map set, or can I just change the coordinate system in the data frame, add appropriate transformations, and save this as the State Plane version of the map? What would people recommend? Thanks for the help. ... View more

Good morning. I was trying to find a way to add a table to my data driven pages where the table updates based on what features from a layer are visible in the current layout view (based on a strip index. Specifically, each page will be a 1:200 scale along a 100 mile long linear corridor. I have 322 pages based on my layout/strip index. Each page includes anywhere from 2 to 15 soil type polygons based on my location. I would like to have a table that list the 2, 5 12... however many soil types are shown on each page based on information in the soils attribute table. I would like to list 2 attributes, soil code, and soil type. Ideally automated in some fashion since, as I stated, there will be 322 pages in my finished set. From my research it looks like this can be done with the Production Mapping extension but this extension is not available to me at the moment and not an option to buy for this one project. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any suggestions/help. -Chris- ... View more

I have a some GPS data coming back from a field crew that I need to make into polygons and was wondering if folks could help with a streamlined approach. Work is being collected with Trimble GPS, was supposed to use a data dictionary, but instead field crew has been creating generic points and generic polylines (long story, not worth fighting the fight at this point). Background is, field crews are delineating wetlands within a Right-of-Way (ROW). Where the wetland leaves the ROW the crew does not have access. Therefore, in many cases the result is a polyline that is basically a three sided feature. I want the fourth side (assume for simplicity we are talking about rectangles) to be the ROW boundary. Upwards of 175 features are delineated to date so manually snapping to the ROW edge will be a bit tedious. What might be some suggestions for a process to create polygons that will be bound by the ROW? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. (Oh, using ArcView license) -Chris ... View more