topic Re: Flood Information Tool in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Flood Information Tool

NickZubel — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 23:26:29 GMT

I am working with the Flood Information Tool and Hazus. I am completing project information in the "Project Setup and Validation" box and when I create and select a new folder in the working directory, it says" "the working directory path cannot contain spaces." The new folder does not contain spaces. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Nick

Re: Flood Information Tool

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 23:42:39 GMT

Could you elaborate? If you are working in PRO, then what is the location where your project was made?

Can you look for your default Project settings and report what is set there at the General level regarding where projects are created and the location of the geodatabase that is being created/used

Re: Flood Information Tool

KoryKramer — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 14:55:16 GMT

You say that the new folder doesn't contain spaces, but the error is saying that the path can't contain spaces. Check the full path that leads to the working directory where you're creating your folder.

Re: Flood Information Tool

DanPatterson_Retired — Sun, 11 Mar 2018 03:19:14 GMT

The horrid C:\Users folder is a candidate if there is a space or other punctuation in your name or the path

Re: Flood Information Tool

NickZubel — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:33:12 GMT

I am sorry for the late response. The directory I am using is the following: E:\City_of_Berkeley_DDMP_Hazus

Re: Flood Information Tool

NickZubel — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:36:54 GMT

I also tried E:\CityofBerkeleyDDMPHazus, but still get the invalid directory message: "The working directory path cannot contain spaces."

Re: Flood Information Tool

ChrisDonohue__GISP — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:46:37 GMT

Just a thought - I have not used HAZUS myself, but have heard from other GIS folks who use it that it has some levels of raster processing as part of it. What potentially may be going on is that the folder it is being pointed at violates the ESRI GRID format rules, which are very strict. Therefore, try creating a very short folder name (<13 characters, or better <9 characters) and see if it then works.

Esri Grid format

The name of an Esri Grid format raster has more specific restrictions:

The maximum number of characters is 13.
It cannot have spaces.
It cannot use special characters other than underscore ( "_" ).
For tools that output an Esri Grid Stack, the stack name cannot have more than 9 characters.
The total length of the name for a Grid and its path cannot be more than 128 characters.

Source: Output raster formats and names—ArcGIS Help | ArcGIS Desktop

Chris Donohue, GISP

Re: Flood Information Tool

NickZubel — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:53:08 GMT

Okay I figured it out. Thank you everyone!

Re: Flood Information Tool

NickZubel — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:53:44 GMT

Thank you Chris. That was very helpful. I really appreciate it.

Re: Flood Information Tool

KoryKramer — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:01:33 GMT

I'm glad you figure it out, Nick. Could you close the loop by explaining the solution? Thanks!

Re: Flood Information Tool

NickZubel — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:41:58 GMT

I located the initial external drive of where the files were located and removed the spaces in its title.

Many thanks,

Nick Zubel

Re: Flood Information Tool

KoryKramer — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:44:41 GMT

Thanks!