Latest Contributions by BruceHarold

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

Hi Mark When you create a locator using a 10 style you may set the relevant zone field to <None> and not specify it at run time - in your case ZIP.  There is an issue with 10.0 which requires that at least one zone field must be non-null, but this is fixed at SP1. Regards ... View more

Hi Sherrie It sounds like you should log a support call so an analyst can reproduce your issue.  Existing locators should work fine in ArcGIS 10.  One (remote) possibility is your existing locator did not have reference data stored in it and the connection required to wherever the data resides cannot be made for some reason. Regards ... View more

Dan Can you please log a support call and make your source data available to the analyst?  We'll try and repro your experience and see if SDE has anything to do with it. As an aside, we do not recommend SDE workspaces as places to store locators, file geodatabases or the filesystem are preferred. Regards ... View more

Hi Pat In your workbench, make sure to expose additional attributes for extended data. The parameters dialog for the KML reader has a control "Additional Attributes to Expose" which brings up the dialog in my first screengrab. Then in your workbech, expose and explode the list attribute - you'll get name and value attributes. You'll have to do more work to pivot the exploded features back into a single part per kml_id. Regards ... View more

Hi Nelson This is a known issue we're working on - if an ETL tool is the first background GP process in any session it will fail.  Run another GP tool first (Get Count if you can't think of anything else) and then the ETL processes.  They should then work. Regards ... View more

Hi The arcpy.Describe object also returns the subtypeFieldName. http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//000v0000002s000000.htm Regards ... View more

Hi Joe The best way for us to support address cases is to have sample data, which means attaching files to thread posts if using the forum.  If you are OK doing that then it works for us too, otherwise by support call works too. Regards ... View more

Hi Joe The address grammar is where new "patterns" can be defined for the new geocoding engine.  We're hoping that for major market locators that nobody will have to change the grammar, we would prefer users notify us about cases which cause issues (as you have done) and we re-publish the .lot.xml files on the geocoding resource centre.  I think your EXT issue will be resolved by Brad editing some other element values and not changing any grammar. Service Pack 1 for ArcGIS 10 will include many improvements to the geocoding experience with 10 locators. Regards ... View more