Latest Contributions by ThomasColson

Using the sample code for "Creating a map book with facing pages" , the resulting PDF output is very pixelated. No, I am not using any raster data in the source MXD, nor do any of the vector layers have transparency. I do have vector contour lines in the source MXD. I think because of the presence of the contours, arcpy is defaulting everything to 72 dpi. However, def PDFDocumentCreate does not seem to have any parameters that can control the output pdf quality. Is there a way that mass-production map books can be output to high-quality PDF's? ... View more

Does anyone know when Explorer beta 2012 is going to be released as a final build? ... View more

I realize this is a newbie quetion, but....we recently collected event data for 200 miles of roads on an 800000 ac campus. Included is very dense distance data measured with a digitally calibrated wheel, features (signs, culverts, rails), and 30,000 mile-points. I am somewhat overwhelmed by the plethora of transportation data models and Online documentation, which seems more targeted for municipal tranportation (we're in the sticks here!). What would be a good ESRI resource I can start with, where I can trim out all of the "bling" except for lines, routes, and events? One issue is that while no expense was spared on accurately measuring distance, apparantly we got a discount on the GPS attached to the wheel. We pulled centerlines from 6 in air photo, but the event points matched to the event measurements range from 1 ft to 20 ft from the road centerline. With snapping, this shouldn't be much of an issue except at the start and end points of each road segment, where this is a horizontal shift left or right, as well as a linear shift either a few feet before the segment start, or a few feet after it starts. What would be the best way to correct this (as best as possible without manually shifting 30,000 points). Thanks for any direction. ... View more

Is it possible to allow users create feature class permissions in a feature dataset that was created by dbo? Here's the situation: I have created several feature datasets, I want users to be able to import/create their own data into those datasets. Creating a seperate FD per user is not feasible nor supported in our deployment model. E.g. we have one feature dataset named "Vegetation", all users in the organization need to have permissions to create feature classes within that FD. Creating a seperate FD for each user whom must create and edit vegetation feature classes just is not workable. I'd tried given create table and alter dbo schema pemission in SQL, but I still get "You must be owner" errors when a user tries to create a FC in the FD I created for them. Environment is SQL 2008 Basic 64 bit SP1, ArcSDE 10 SP3. ... View more

Attempts to execute the "Add Field" tool fail with "Error 000496 table is being edited" which is NOT true. I am attempting to automate adding many default organization fields to many FC's sitting in ArcSDE workgroup on SQL express, 10.0, desktop is 10.0 (patched). FC is in a FD, registered as versioned, with default, qa, and edit versions. All edits have been previously rec'ed and posted, DB compressed, and NO ONE is attached to the DB editing (why I'm in here on sunday doing this!). I have rebooted the SQL server, the workstation, un-registered and re-registered the FD as versioned, performed all the DB maintenance tasks, change the field name and type, tried other FCs, under no circumnstance or permutation of options can I get the add field tool to work. It always returns "Error 000496 table is being edited". How do I find and kill this mysterious schema look that is preventing me from adding fields to FC's? ... View more

http://resources.arcgis.com/content/maintenance contains the following text: "Generate the state mile-log using the SLD tool to create statewide or district level SLD map books" Is the SLD tool part of the data model download, is it an Arc Script? Does anyone know where to find this SLD tool? ... View more