topic Re: Unable to load a large (700 MB) shapefile in ArcGIS Online Questions

Unable to load a large (700 MB) shapefile

AlanRea — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:16:35 GMT

I'm having trouble loading a somewhat large (700 MB uncompressed, 540 MB zipped) shapefile to AGOL. I'm working with an Organizational account, and am loading using the Add Item button under My Content. I understand this is the most reliable way to load large datasets. The shapefile has a lot of features, 231,698 polygons.

I've tried twice to load it, and get this message:

Unable to load http://usgs.maps.arcgis.com/sharing/content/users/ahrea/968e162241994b2ab8d3110aa3defc37/addItem status: 0

Any ideas?

Thanks much.

Re: Unable to load a large (700 MB) shapefile

MarcoBoeringa — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:21:34 GMT

I'm having trouble loading a somewhat large (700 MB uncompressed, 540 MB zipped) shapefile to AGOL. I'm working with an Organizational account, and am loading using the Add Item button under My Content. I understand this is the most reliable way to load large datasets. The shapefile has a lot of features, 231,698 polygons.

I've tried twice to load it, and get this message:

Unable to load http://usgs.maps.arcgis.com/sharing/content/users/ahrea/968e162241994b2ab8d3110aa3defc37/addItem status: 0

Any ideas?

Thanks much.

I have never used ArcGIS Online, but this really sounds like something to take up directly with ESRI customer support, not on a users forum. You may well be hitting some limitation to your account.

Lastly, it probably is recommendable to run "Check Geometry" before trying to upload anything that large online. You don't want to sit back and wait 4 hours for something to upload, only to discover it failed because of bad geometries.

Re: Unable to load a large (700 MB) shapefile

Anonymous User — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:09:44 GMT

Hi Alan,

Did you try publishing the shapefile from ArcMap 10.1?

Andrew

Re: Unable to load a large (700 MB) shapefile

AlanRea — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 02:07:37 GMT

Andrew,

It took me a while to get my ducks in a row, then I tried loading it using ArcMap, and it worked. So I guess that is the preferred method. The service seems to work just fine.

Thank you.
Alan