Latest Contributions by BruceHarold

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

Hi Abdul An interoperability connection is read only.  To write into your Oracle Spatial database you need to use either the Quick Export tool in the Data Interoperability tools or a Spatial ETL tool.  Please see here:  http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Creating_a_spatial_ETL_tool/004m00000021000000/ You cannot use interoperability connections as editable layers. If you cannot see spatial data in an interoperability connection it may be because the table you are viewing does not have an SDO geometry column.  Please verify this with your database administrator.  The scrambling of the Arabic characters may be an issue with the client or DBMS.  Try making an OLE DB connection to Oracle from ArcCatalog and see how the tables display.  Check your locale ID in the connection is correct:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0h88fahh If you cannot get the OLE DB connection displaying correctly please log a support call with your distributor. Regards ... View more

Hi Rabdul This is quite a big topic.  At the simplest level, Oracle Spatial (SDO) geometry is directly readable by ArcGIS 10 as Query Layers, subject to you being able to make a query that satisfies query layer dependencies:  http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//00s500000027000000.htm If you need to continue managing your data with Geomedia but also support write access from ArcGIS, the Data Interoperability extension will enable write access to Oracle Spatial tables. If you will be migrating data management tasks to ArcGIS then installing SDE is required, plus registering your existing tables in the resulting geodatabase.  It is recommended you engage an experienced ESRI user for this process, and it sounds like you may have internal staff able to help. Regards ... View more

Hi Jon The "how to" document on locator customization is still in the works, we are hoping to have it ready not long after SP1. Regards ... View more

Hi Steve In 9.3.1 there is no switch, but there is in 10.  The format parameters have a pulldown for axis order - please see the attached image. Regards ... View more

Hi Kobe This is quite a big topic, but the short story is coverages come in two flavours - having single or double precision coordinates - and use the concept of a fuzzy tolerance when geoprocessing against other coverages - coordinates within the tolerance of each other are considered identical.  Shapefiles are always double precision and have no concept of control over coordinate comparison tolerance - don't use them.  Geodatabases use a storage resolution for their features and an additional XY tolerance you use to model the accuracy of the data when making coordinate comparisons.  Because much geoprocessing functionality depends on coordinate comparison geodatabases are the recommended storage workspace for your data. Regards ... View more