Latest Contributions by CraigWilliams

This is achievable as well using the attribute driven color approach. What issues are you having? ... View more

The text out of the expression needs to match the examples in the above linked help topic. If you're specifying alpha, you need a value from 0 to 1 with 0 being fully transparent and 1 being opaque. You also don't need the concatenate function in this case So, use: "rgb(" + $feature['Units_in_M$.R'] + "," + $feature['Units_in_M$.G'] + "," + $feature['Units_in_M$.B'] -or- "rgba(" + $feature['Units_in_M$.R'] + "," + $feature['Units_in_M$.G'] + "," + $feature['Units_in_M$.B'] + ",1)" Depending on what you're fields are, you may need to use the Arcade Text() function to format numbers to correct format as a string. ... View more

We've been focusing on documenting the JSON variation of this spec (see https://github.com/Esri/cim-spec). We've had requests to have a JSON schema version of this which we're considering, but no plans to do an XML schema at this point. mapx, lyrx, pagx, and items in styles all use the JSON spec. ... View more

This type of conversion is typically handled during the sharing process when creating weblayers, webmaps, or when handing out such layers from MapServices. There's not a direct API call to convert between these specifications. ArcGIS Pro uses the CIM specification while the JavaScript API uses the WebMap specification. Can you explain more about your workflow and what you're looking to create? ... View more

APRX files are zip archives. STYLX are SQLite databases. At this point there are no plans to change this. ... View more

In many contour datasets, the features are very large with a single contour value being one long winding feature with a large extent. This may explain why even with 500 feature you're hitting memory limits. It's also the reason why the Contour tool now has a Maximum vertices per feature parameter. For existing contours, you may want to run the Dice tool to make these larger geometries smaller. If generating contours from scratch, I'd highly recommend preprocessing the input raster with a Focal Statistics operation with the Mean option or the Filter tool with the Low option. This will create smoother contours from the start and will produce better results than generating contours from a noisy DEM and attempting to smooth or simplify them after the fact. ... View more

With Python, VBScript, and JScript expressions, the field values always passed through the field formatting of the layer and were brought into the label expression as strings. While that achieved your desired effect in this case, it caused problems in other scenarios where some expected raw field values. It also caused problems for portability as cases like feature services, web maps, and feature-linked annotation lacked the layer formatting. For Arcade, we made a conscious decision to pass the feature itself into the expression with raw field values. This itself is quite powerful as it provides access to geometry and arithmetic operations can be performed on raw data values. As Wendy Harrison‌ noted above, we have documented the difference in behavior here from the very introduction of Arcade. In future releases, we'll be revisiting layer field formatting with the goal of greater portability and look at whether we can default Arcade expressions on field insert to match field formatting in appearance much like we do for coded value domains. ... View more

This should not be occurring on MXD import and is something we would like to look at. The best path for that would be to submit an issue to Esri support services. ... View more

The annotation model in ArcGIS Pro has been updated to take advantage of the updated symbolization and text capabilities in ArcGIS Pro. ArcMap doesn't support all these capabilities and any attempt at supporting the format in ArcMap would result in potential for lost data, which could be seen as data corruption by some. For that reason, we've decided to make a clean break between formats. We'll be supporting this new annotation model through more of the ArcGIS Platform in the future starting with ArcGIS Runtime. ... View more

Text is drawn in screen units defined in points in ArcGIS.  An 8 pt font is 8 pts at any scale unless a reference scale is set (of the text is part of annotation that has a reference scale).  You can mimic real-world sizes with a reference scale and a simple formula: outputPoints = (mapUnitsInches * 72) / scale In your case, if you want a piece of text to be a foot high at say a scale like 1:1000.  Convert feet to inches, so 12 in this case.  A point is 1/72 of a inch, you multiple by that.  Then divide it by the scale denominator. outputPoints = (12 * 72) / 1000 outputPoints = .864pts Note that the size of the text block will be 1 foot on the ground.  Letters themselves are often smaller than their block height and you may need to compensate for this if you're expecting a capital letter to be 1 foot. ... View more

The label engine approach for spreading point labels is challenging when you also want to label those points.  Basically the moved points and the labels will both be placed by the label engine and conflict with each other for position.  An alternative approach is to use the Disperse markers tool to move the point features and then label them: Disperse Markers—Help | ArcGIS Desktop  ... View more

We'll be improving the printing user experience in a future release. At this point, we hope to address this issue and have a better connection between the printer and layout experience including showing printer page boundaries. ... View more

1. I started as a business major (yuck) and found Geography as a major. I loved it an never looked back. I especially like the mix of cartography and computer science that my job allows 2. Since my job is mostly software related, I'm most proud of ArcGIS Pro and being involved in it since the beginning. 3. San Serriffe 4. I take pride in shipping cartographic software and helping our users make better maps with our software. ... View more

Can you provide more information about how you're bringing this data into Google Earth? As a service?  Exported as KML? ... View more