Latest Contributions by PaulHuffman

‎12-17-2018

It looks like I don't have a processing report for this run. The report folder just has a folder html with the esri logo in it. I think that would be consistent with just stopping the project when I encountered the message that there were no control points in the project area. Would the report for the run in which I used reprojected coordinates be helpful?

‎12-14-2018

I ran my first 3D analysis on a Drone2Map project, and I can't figure out what I am looking at. In Drone2Map, why does the 3D Mesh appear to be about 100m in the air above the background imagery surface? https://www.dropbox.com/s/vplvwlldruuoft3/Screenshot%202018-12-14%2011.56.13.png?dl=0 Why are some of the drone photo blue dots and the connecting flight lines seem to be at the surface of the base surface? Are these the photos that just contained only water so they couldn't be placed? Or are these the photos that couldn't be tied to the ground control points? I tried looking at my D2M project in Pro. Dropbox - Screenshot 2018-12-14 12.20.53.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/387p0xemoyb7r9i/Screenshot%202018-12-14%2012.20.53.png?dl=0 Same questions about the photo locations, and the flight paths. But why are the two elevation surfaces not showing up? One was the GISPro default World Elevation 3D, while Topovector.GIS.midcoldem10m is my own 10m DEM in this area. The scene stuff in Pro is new to me. The 2D runs on this drone flight worked out pretty good in Drone2Map. But this 3d stuff has me puzzled.

‎12-14-2018

Did the projection system of the drone photos and the control points match?

‎12-14-2018

ESRI Technical support told me that having a different coordinate system for the ground control points just doesn't work. D2M is unable to reproject GCPs on the fly. That I should use my workaround workflow of changing the projection of the GCPs. But it seems strange that the product would have the user set the projection system for the photos in one area of the workflow, then have a way to define the projection system of the ground control points in another part of the workflow if it doesn't work. Tech support pointed me to bug ENH-000103747, but this enhancement request doesn't match well to what I am experiencing. The bug description is " In Drone2Map, For gcp that use a different Datum than the Drone imagery, the Software should indicate, in documentation or in the product as a message, what datum transformation is being applied and/or allow this to be applied to the processing results as well."

‎11-28-2018

I am using Drone2Map 1.3.2. I have a collection of photos that were collected with a drone flight that are in WGS 84. I ran them without the ground control points and got some nice looking mosaics and surfaces. Then I tried another Drone2Map project with the same photos, and this time tried to add the ground control points provided in a CSV. They are in Washington StatePlane South. They map in Arc Map correctly as Washington State Plane South. Drone2Map import GCPs into project seems to get the understand the horizontal coordinate system, and the Sample Record seems to show that the CVS fields were read in correctly. Dropbox - gcp.PNG But I can only get "There are no GCPs that fall within the project area. Please Check your spatial reference and verify your latitude and longitude are correct. " What did I miss? Do I need to convert the GCPs to WSG 84? I brought the State Plane CSV points into Arcmap as XY events, reprojected them to WGS 84, ran the AddXY tool on them, exported them back to CSV, and then imported the GCPs back into D2M. The field mappings had to be adjusted a little to use the new WGS 84 field mappings, but the points imported fine. Created my links and I'm currently running this again to see how much the control points help the products.

‎11-19-2018

Well, it worked, but there were unexpected complications. First, Windows tries hard for some reason to keep AppData hidden. Even the copy of AppData>Roaming>ESRI>Desktop10.4 that I made on a thumb drive. Sometimes you can type in AppData in File Explorer to browse down that branch farther, even it doesn't appear in the folder list, but you can also go to File Explorer View>Options>change folder and search options>view>advanced>show hidden files, folders and drives. On the target machine, the new one, there was no path c:\users\username\AppData\Roaming\Esri\Desktop10.6 to copy ArcCatalog into, even though ArcDesktop was installed and running for Administrator. I had to log in as user and start ArcCatalog for the first time as that user for the tree structure to show up. Then I closed ArcCatalog, and overwrote the two files in the AppData/Roaming folder ArcCatalog.

‎11-15-2018

I am installing ArcGIS Desktop on a user's new PC. I want of course to preserve her network and geodatabase connections from her old machine to the new machine. It seems logical that I could just copy C:\users\name\AppData\Roaming\ESRI\Desktop10.6\ArcCatalog from the old PC to the new PC, because that's where all the connections are kept. Does this work? Is this supported and documented somewhere? Do I also want to go farther up the tree and copy over everything in >AppData>Roaming>ESRI and maybe >AppData>Local>ESRI as well?

‎11-01-2018

I got something like this to work from the ArcMap python window to make the reclass raster, the one called slice in the aml. Now if I can get the colors mapped in from the color.lut, I guess I can save it as a layer file so the others in my team can import the colors into their symbology window. I could define the colors by the rgb codes in my symbology window manually, but it would be more fun to use the text file color.lut. # Name: reclass.py # Description: Reclassify elevation DEM by values used # in relief.aml in elev.lut, converted to DOS file elev.txt # Import system modules import arcpy from arcpy import env from arcpy.sa import * # Set environment settings env.workspace = "G:\elevation\elevationwash100.mdb" # Set local variables inRaster = "wash_dem" inRemapTable = "G:\elevation\midcolum\elev.txt" # Check out the ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extension license arcpy.CheckOutExtension("Spatial") # Execute Reclassify outRaster = ReclassByASCIIFile(inRaster, inRemapTable) # Save the output outRaster.save("wash_demreclass") ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

‎10-31-2018

I wonder if there is a hack to edit the color.lut file into a .lyr or a .avl file that could be imported into the symbology definition of a elevation reclass raster.

‎10-31-2018

The upgrade is almost complete and everything went smoothly. I was worried about not having a domain, but at the point where I was asked to supply the fully qualified domain name of the server in the url, I got it to work again by using the IP number of the server machine. The biggest problem was getting the backup.py to run before starting the upgrade. I wasted a little time trying to figure out if I could run backup.py with its command line arguments in IDLE. I guess it isn't easy to use command line parameters with IDLE unless I modify the script to add a sys.arcv line. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2148994/when-running-a-python-script-in-idle-is-there-a-way-to-pass-in-command-line-arg . So I went back to running backup.py from cmdtool. The python path wasn't set so I went looking for python.exe. I was reminded of the fact that there can be a python installed for Arc Desktop and perhaps a different on installed for ArcGIS Pro. I decided to use the Desktop version because the shorter path meant less typing. Trying to run backup.py from python command prompt from, I got "Error when generating token. Please check it the server is running and that the user name and password are correct. " I kept thinking I had a problem with the certificate, since at this location, I don't have a certificate server (yet), and I just have users ignore the security warning at their browsers. Imagine my surprise when I finally discovered that the problem was write permissions on the output folder needed to be added for the arcserver account, the one I was using in the -u parameter of backup.py. Running from an admin cmdtool wasn't sufficient. Getting confused about the last step, Installing Web Adapter for the ArcServer. https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/web-adaptor/latest/install/iis/configure-arcgis-web-adaptor-server.htm Do I want to do this from the webadapter configuration page. It looks like WA is configured for Portal but not Server. Do I do that on the next page? https://www.dropbox.com/s/3mcshufilf7nu7d/WebAdapterConfig.PNG?dl=0 Or do I run the install files again for WA and this time choose the port for server?

‎10-31-2018

My agency is still using the old elevation shaded reliefs that I generated on a Sun Workstation using AML. (bottom data frame) The problem is how do I match this appearance when I get new data, or need to patch old DEM data? ArcMap >10.3 gives you Elevation 1 and Elevation 2 and both are hideous. The closest I can find is using Pink to YellowGreen, Diverging, Dark, set at 40% transparency on the DEM raster, over a hillshade raster of the same DEM. (Top data frame). https://www.dropbox.com/s/jphr9f73xvl7snm/reliefcompare.PNG?dl=0 I found the old aml that produced the color scheme. It produced a recode grid of elevation called slice based on the lookup table elev.lut, a hillshade called hill, an illumination grid called illum, then combined them into color separates based on the color lookup table color.lut that were later combined in a stack. Maybe if I can decode the rgb color codes in color.lut, I could use them to symbolize a elevation reclass raster, reclassified based on the elevation breaks in the elev.lut, then put that at 40% over a hillshade . elev.lut -10000 0000 : 1 0000 0250 : 2 0250 0500 : 3 0500 1000 : 4 1000 1500 : 5 1500 2000 : 6 2000 2500 : 7 2500 3000 : 8 3000 3500 : 9 3500 4000 : 10 4000 4500 : 11 4500 5000 : 12 5000 5500 : 13 5500 6000 : 14 6000 6500 : 15 6500 7000 : 16 7000 7500 : 17 7500 8000 : 18 8000 8500 : 19 8500 9000 : 20 9000 9500 : 21 9500 10000 : 22 10000 20000 : 23 ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ color.lut 1 8 129 242 2 113 153 89 3 117 170 101 4 149 190 113 5 178 214 117 6 202 226 149 7 222 238 161 8 242 238 161 9 238 222 153 10 242 206 133 11 234 182 129 12 218 157 121 13 194 141 125 14 214 157 145 15 226 174 165 16 222 186 182 17 238 198 210 18 255 206 226 19 250 218 234 20 255 222 230 21 255 230 242 22 255 242 255 23 255 255 255‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Relief.aml &args elev_map grid mapex %elev_map% /* kill slice all /* kill hill all /* kill red all /* kill green all /* kill blue all /* kill illum all slice = reclass(%elev_map% * 3.28089,elev.lut) hill = hillshade(%elev_map%,345,45,#,5.0) illum = float(hill) / 255 red = int(con(isnull(color2red(slice,color.lut,nowrap) * illum),255,(color2red(slice,color.lut,nowrap) * illum))) green = int(con(isnull(color2green(slice,color.lut,nowrap) * illum),255,(color2green(slice,color.lut,nowrap) * illum))) blue = int(con(isnull(color2blue(slice,color.lut,nowrap) * illum),255,(color2blue(slice,color.lut,nowrap) * illum))) &echo &off q &return‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

‎09-24-2018

This might be a problem. The help files tell me to back up the webgisdir.properties file and edit it, but I can't find it. These help files don't go back to version 10.3, windows. https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/10.4/administer/windows/create-web-gis-backup.htm https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/get-started/latest/windows/upgrade-arcgis-enterprise.htm

‎08-20-2018

One of my locations, the one with a windows domain, has poor internet connection, but plenty of power users. The users report that they don't like to use ESRI base maps because of the slow draw time, but I think they complain too much. They could try turning off the base maps until their map is ready to finalize, for instance. And basemap performance from ESRI seems to be getting better. But that's why I run Server locally here, to provide base maps for them without loading their Internet connection. At my other location, a major function for Arc Server is to serve up gigs of historic air photos that aren't available anywhere else. We scanned them in house. The photos are very useful to us, but probably not to the wider GIS community, because they have hand drawn engineering features of our irrigation systems on them. Moving all that to Amazon or Azure seems difficult, especially since I have the hardware and services already up and running under Server 10.3.1. But I did look into it a bit last week after your response.

‎08-16-2018

I'm interested in upgrading from Server 10.3.1 to 10.6.1, Windows and SQL Server, to use some of the new features in Portal. My previous upgrade from 9.3.1 to 10.3.1 was an ordeal, but this upgrade sounds easy. https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/get-started/latest/windows/upgrade-arcgis-enterprise.htm Will I need new prvs files or license files? One problem I had with 10.3.1 installation was that one of my locations does not have a Windows networking domain. Many places in the docs would tell me something like "Use the fully qualified domain name of the server" and I would have to figure out a way around that. Will I still be able to get around that with 10.6.1 or should my first step be to kick off a domain controller?

‎08-16-2018

Looks easy. I got the install files. Will I need new prvs files or license files? One problem I had with 10.3.1 installation was that one of my locations does not have a Windows networking domain. Many places in the docs would tell me something like "Use the fully qualified domain name of the server" and I would have to figure out a way around that. Will I still be able to get around that with 10.6.1 or should my first step be to kick off a domain controller?

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Re: Can I not mix coordinate systems in Drone2Map?

Drone2Map 3D: What am I looking at?

Re: Drone2Map - GCP's

Re: Can I not mix coordinate systems in Drone2Map?

Can I not mix coordinate systems in Drone2Map?

Re: Can a user migrate ArcDesktop to a new PC by copying AppData>Roaming>ESRI>Desktop10.6?

Can a user migrate ArcDesktop to a new PC by copying AppData>Roaming>ESRI>Desktop10.6?

Re: Can I duplicate the color scheme of my old AML for a shaded elevation relief?

Re: Can I duplicate the color scheme of my old AML for a shaded elevation relief?

Re: Upgrading from Arc Server 10.3.1 to 10.6.1

Can I duplicate the color scheme of my old AML for a shaded elevation relief?

Re: Upgrading from Arc Server 10.3.1 to 10.6.1

Re: Upgrading from Arc Server 10.3.1 to 10.6.1

Upgrading from Arc Server 10.3.1 to 10.6.1

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