Latest Contributions by BruceHarold

Hi Sri If you have the Data Interoperability extension you can adopt a workflow where only changes are written to the target table (the source table for the dynamically geocoded feature class). It would work like this:  The source DBMS table is read into the workspace and so is the target table.  Records are compared with the ChangeDetector transformer and added and deleted records identified (updates will show as new records from the source and unknown records from the target, versus the source table of record).  Assign a feature attribute named "fme_db_operation" values of INSERT or DELETE and write to the target geodatabase table; this will write the deltas and trigger the geocode. Regards ... View more

Susan The GML is not well formed.  For example in ..15284.gml instead of valid XML bracketing for the LinearRing there is a "<" character: <gml:PolygonPatch>&lt;gml:LinearRing... The same is true for ..15237.  The file ...15236 has un-escaped ampersand characters in it. Regards ... View more

Bruce, Thank you very much for your help, I greatly appreciate it. I have just one follow-up question: do you know if using the framework for ArcGIS 10 is faster/more efficient than running 8 simultaneous sessions in ArcGIS 9.3.1?  I am trying to figure out whether I should wait for my IT to install ArcGIS 10, which is planned for the next few months. Thanks, Andrew Tschirhart Andrew The approaches are the same, in terms of execution of geoprocessing functions, it's just the 10-based script handles all the split/process/merge legwork.  The script will help you with the modulo arithmetic details so take a look anyway. Regards ... View more

Hi Susan I have asked for a copy of the file you sent and I'll take a look. Regards ... View more

Hello Andrew A framework for parallelizing a workflow like yours exists in an ArcGIS 10 sample script tool here: http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/geocoding/details?entryID=A284F7D9-1422-2418-7F50-BA718224C412 If you upgrade to 10 it isn't a big job to alter the script to perform Spatial Join. If you need to stick to 9.3.1 then you'll need to create a Model that (for example) has an input parameter that selects a subset of addresses (say using modulo arithmetic, like OBJECTID mod 8 = 0, then 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 to make 8 possible non-overlapping selections).  Then you will need to run this Model in 8 concurrent ArcGIS sessions, and afterwards merge the results. Regards ... View more

Karl Please make sure you have enabled the Data Interoperability extension, then browse in the Catalog tree to your TAB or MIF files.  They will appear as a feature dataset icon; open it up and you will see a list of possible data in the files.  Some or most of the options will have no features, but at least one will. MIF data being recognized as a raster data type is a known issue in Catalog. Regards ... View more

Hi Ronnie If your reference data has "Trail West" as the street name then the ArcGIS 10 geocoding engine will interpret any address accordingly, when geocoding.  The exception is in the Standardize Addresses tool, which will parse out the highest number of grammar components it can from the input, hence returning West as a suffix direction. Regards ... View more

Hi This tool may (or may not) be useful if you do not have ArcInfo.  True curves are not elegantly handled. http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/geoprocessing/details?entryID=A031D70B-1422-2418-348D-3CB93A90E175 Regards ... View more

Sarah, can you share a KMZ file to test with? Regards ... View more

Hello Terry Assuming you are hitting a WFS 1.1.0-capable server then you should be able to append the extra details to the Dataset (i.e. base URL) string.  if you are using English then the raw XML should be URL-compliant (my uneducated guess).  Something like: http://wms.data.linz.govt.nz/secretkey/wfs?VERSION=1.1.0&MAXFEATURES=1234&FILTER=<Filter><And><PropertyIsEqualTo><PropertyName>affected_surveys</PropertyName><Literal>DP 327235</Literal></PropertyIsEqualTo><PropertyIsEqualTo><PropertyName>land_district</PropertyName><Literal>North Auckland</Literal></PropertyIsEqualTo></And></Filter> As you can see I'm also dealing with national-scale data, creating FDL files for people to use to access just the data they want. Regards ... View more

Hi All In this case the recommended approach is to use an iterator instead of a batch input. Iterators run the entire mode for each iteration vs. batch which runs the model once and runs each tool n times for each execution. In this case use the feature class iterator if all the feature classes are in one workspace or use iterate multi-value to select the set of feature classes. http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesk...000001w000000/ Regards ... View more

Hi All In this case the recommended approach is to use an iterator instead of a batch input. Iterators run the entire mode for each iteration vs. batch which runs the model once and runs each tool n times for each execution. In this case use the feature class iterator if all the feature classes are in one workspace or use iterate multi-value to select the set of feature classes. http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/A_quick_tour_of_using_iterators_for_iteration_Looping/002w0000001w000000/ ... View more

Hello again The 10.1 release of Data Interoperability will be unicode aware. Regards ... View more

Hi All Can you please log a support call and provide sample data?  Thats the only way we can get to the bottom of the issues. Thanks ... View more

Hi You can use a Spatial ETL tool and append data to an existing feature class; use the writer mode INSERT (the default) but make sure you do not delete or truncate the target feature class. Regards ... View more