Latest Contributions by BruceHarold

All Please also see: http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/geoprocessing/details?entryID=AA23C5C6-1422-2418-8811-1365253A756A There is a model variable (not exposed as a parameter) that will let you play with the number of nearest neighbours for the hull boundary, controlling smoothness. Regards ... View more

Hi Only ESRI applications or SDK's will understand the CPG file, you may have to handle the Unicode encoding yourself in another environment. Regards ... View more

Hi If your DBF file is part of a shapefile, then you will need a codepage file to correctly interpret any Unicode strings.  If your shapefile root name is "xyz" then create a text file xyz.cpg with the contents "UTF-8" (not quoted) and hopefully that will work for you. Regards ... View more

Hi You can do this with a model using iterators.  I attach an example working with contour features. Regards ... View more

Hi John The Python snippet below (requires ArcInfo 10) finds parcels that have neighbouring parcels greater than a certain area in size.  I'm not sure from your post your exact requirement for selecting parcels, but you should be able to monkey with the logic to get there. Regards import arcpy arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True parcels = r"C:\Temp\Parcels.shp" lines = r"C:\Temp\Lines.shp" arcpy.PolygonToLine_management(parcels,lines,"IDENTIFY_NEIGHBORS") bigParcelList = [p.fid for p in arcpy.SearchCursor(parcels,"shape_area > 12000")] hasBigNeighbourSet = set([l.right_fid for l in arcpy.SearchCursor(lines) if l.left_fid  in bigParcelList] + \                          [l.left_fid  for l in arcpy.SearchCursor(lines) if l.right_fid in bigParcelList]) hasBigNeighbourSet.remove(-1) #any parcels on the edge of the world bigneighbours = r"C:\Temp\BigNeighbours.shp" expression = "fid in " + repr(list(hasBigNeighbourSet)).replace("[","(").replace("]",")") arcpy.FeatureClassToFeatureClass_conversion(parcels, r"C:\Temp", "BigNeighbours.shp", expression) ... View more

Hi Daniel Joe is correct, but I would still try merging your features into a single features class in a file geodatabase then making an ArcGIS 10 locator from it.  Esri creates locators with this order of magnitude of features in hours. Regards ... View more

Hi Not much help at 9.3 I know, but ArcPy geometry objects have a "contains" method: http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Polygon/000v000000n1000000/ Regards ... View more

Hello Bangqian With the Data Interoperability extension turned on, can you navigate to the 0107veg_shape.e00 file in ArcCatalog and expand the feature set into its component feature geometries? If you are able, please send me 0107veg_shape.e00 attached to an email, to bharold@esri.com, and I will take a look. Regards ... View more

Hi Troy This will be workspace dependent.  For example in SQL Server 2008 you could have a field of type UniqueIdentifier and create values with the UUIDGenerator in your workbench.  Data Interop will populate the uniqueidentifier field. You can mimic this behavior with integers you make unique using a Counter transformer, it depends on the quality of result you are looking for. Regards ... View more

Hi Parthiban Data Interoperability is an extra cost extension delivered on all ArcGIS desktop install media.  You can install it without licensing it and use a small subset of its functionality (reading GML-based formats) but the full functionality requires a license, just like other extensions. Regards ... View more

Does anyone know a tool that will help me export all tools to a table/spreadsheet? (for Arc10) I used to use Geodatabase Reporter, but there is not a version for Arc10.  The domain-to-table works well enough for a single table, but not really for a gdb w/ 250 domains in it... Hi ArcPy Describe properties include a Python list of domains for any workspace which you could loop through the Domain to Table GP tool and make your tables. Regards ... View more

Hello Nelson Can you please log a support call; there must be another issue beside the one addressed in SP1 for background geoprocessing.  Please reference this forum thread when logging the call, and be ready to share test data, and of course your tool.  Thank you for helping us troubleshoot this issue. Regards ... View more

John Please log a support call and supply the analyst with your street data and your address table, it looks like we may need to tweak the locator grammar definition for your data.  Doing this will benefit other users with similar data.  Thanks very much. Regards ... View more

Hello Angela Yes this is about the new attachments functionality at ArcGIS 10, which is implemented as a 1:M relationship class to a table with a single BLOB column for the attachments.  The attachments table has a field storing the MIME type for the attached data, so whichever application is registered on your machine for the MIME type will be used to open any attachment. Regards ... View more

Hi GaiaEarth8 The general idea would be to geocode both addresses and union the two outputs then find the features with identical coordinates.  There are core GP tools for this.  If the format of your address information is not suitable for input to the Geocode Addresses tool then you may need to use a function available at SP1 (due out very soon) which lets the tool accept all address information concatenated into one field - which will save you some formatting time.  If you have trouble with all this email me (bharold at esri) with sample data and I'll take a look. Regards ... View more