Latest Contributions by JeffWard

thodson-esristaff, What's the status of the spiral curve? I encounter them quite frequently and would love to have an easier way to enter them. ... View more

Here is what I would do - Join the two tables using a field of the same type - integer, text, float (it won't matter that none of the records join since your desired output is null field values for the right half of table A and null field values for the left half of table B) This step is so you have the fields from Table A tacked on to the right side of table B. Export the joined table to a new table. This step makes all of the fields permanent in a new table. Append Table B to the new table selecting "NO_TEST" in the Schema Type setting. Then map the fields to the corresponding fields in the new table. The Append tool is in Data Management - General toolbox. This should get you what you are after if I understand your requirements correctly. ... View more

Or is the new table empty? If so, you could just join them using a field of a common type (text, integer, float) and that would give you the empty columns tacked on at the end of the original columns then export that joined layer to another feature class. ... View more

Are they identical spatially? Could you do a spatial join? ... View more

How about the Add Fields tool, it allows you to add several fields with the same tool. Or you can join the one table to the original if you have a common field. ... View more

Whoops, just saw you wanted to append columns not records. ... View more

There is the Append tool in the Data Management toolbox. ... View more

I noticed the issue because a subdivision wasn't showing up as historic after I made it historic (it was actually an issue with the default definition query for the historic layer not showing the sub or condo type). To make a long story short, I had two historic subdivisions that were the same and I thought it would be nice to see which system end date was older. ... View more

That was what I needed. I had actually done that before posting but I was using Jupyter Notebooks to run my script - I needed to run the previous cells to reload the variable I was checking. Thanks for your help! ... View more

I am trying to create a replica using the process in the link below. The reference says the feature layer needs to have the Extract capability. Mine doesn't, is there a setting I need to change on the item details page that will give the feature layer the Extract capability? In terms of another way to download the data to file geodatabase, without consuming credits, you could create a replica using the Python API and then download. This is the programmatic equivalent of exporting to a file geodatabase from the Item Details page of a service, or creating a replica and manually entering paramters at the REST endpoint.  You may want to test manually from the Item Details page first and ensure that it works there; if it doesn't it won't work programmatically either, and confirms our suspicion that there could be a data-specific problem. Thanks, Jeff ... View more

Light jacket easily stowed in your bag or backpack. Water bottle. Sit at the front - many presentations that have demonstrations (almost all of them) aren't easily seen from the back or middle of the room. Figure out the public transit system. $5 a day can get you a lot farther than any Uber driver. Trips are easily planned online. I have been to Coronado, Mission Beach, La Jolla and all around downtown. If you get on a bus, don't pay the fare listed at the front of the bus, tell the driver you want an all day fare and feed a fiver into the machine - that ticket is then good for all buses and trolleys. Skip the Mexican restaurants in Old Town, walk a few blocks south to El Agave. It's more expensive but you won't be pestered by mariachi bands and balloon artists and the food is much, much better - get the mole (mOH-lay). Eat at some of the places from this story map. Puesto, Crack Shack, and Cafe 222 are good. Check out a sunset. Don't be a loner on Thursday night. Make some friends earlier in the week and arrange to go to the party with them. Don't stop at the first food offering at the Thursday night party. It's usually kid's fare. There is better stuff in the other locations. Get a selfie with Jack. He wanders around the party. ... View more

The Mission Valley hotels are cheaper and you can use the transit system to get to the conference center from there. A trolley runs through mission valley right to the convention center (green line). San Diego public transit is cheap - $5 for the whole day on trolleys and buses. If you can't find a hotel in Mission Valley, you can take a bus to one of the transit centers - Fashion Valley, Old Town - and take the trolley from there. ... View more

I would start by downloading one of the Local Government editing map templates like the Water Utility Network Editing and Analysis template. You may not be editing a water utility but that template can really show you how the Attribute Assistant can work. It was actually an add-in created for that template. What you are describing sounds like the Nearest Feature Attributes method. The best way to figure it out is download a template like the one mentioned above and play around with the DynamicValue table and see what the results are. Be sure to turn on the log file and check it if things aren't working the way you think they should. Here are a couple of lines I use in my address point layer: This line grabs the house number from the HouseNum field of a polygon layer (parcels) named AddressingPointHouseNumbers and puts it in the ADDRNUM field of my SiteAddressPoint layer. The search distance is 5 feet. It's a pretty simple line in the table and saves me a bunch of time. Hope that helps. Jeff ... View more

I also would recommend using a different method of fixing the gaps instead of zooming in to each vertex and moving the individual vertices to match the other polygon. I make sure the two polygons match where they begin intersecting, then I reshape one of them to take out the offending border with the other polygon, then I reshape it again using the trace tool to follow the other polygon thus making the boundary the same. Use the reshape tool to modify one of the polygons: Use the reshape tool and the trace tool to follow the boundary of the other polygon: There used to be something called the "zipper tool" that would use a distance tolerance to make the boundary coincident. I don't know if that is still around or not, but I think this method gets a cleaner result. There is the Align to Shape tool on the advanced editing toolbar - this is the old zipper tool. I haven't used this much, I think it is better if you have a separate feature class to use to trace for the common boundary. I actually just tried this tool with a few scenarios and I found it difficult to make the trace tool follow just one of the boundaries. I find it easier to get one of the boundaries out of the picture altogether by using the method described above. Hope that helps. Jeff ... View more