Latest Contributions by CraigWilliams

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

I'll pass this on to the raster development team, thank you. ... View more

The ArcGIS Online geocoding supports intersections. For more information, see Geocoding and Place Search | ArcGIS for Developers  ... View more

Custom is available in ArcGIS Pro raster symbology. I think the above post is pointing out an issue with the functionality. ... View more

Patrick, it sounds like you may be running into a software bug. I recommend contacting support services to have this case evaluated as custom statistics and loading of statistics should be working properly. ... View more

Your lines are vector or are they part of the raster? It sounds like you may be looking at raster data. ... View more

A large number of representation capabilities have existed in ArcGIS Pro since version 1.0 for standard feature layers. For instance, the symbol model incorporates geometric effects and marker placements and has a similar structure to representations. Field based overrides are available and have extended capabilities with expressions (see Attribute-driven symbology—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop  for more info). Our approach moving forward will be to add capabilities to feature layers rather than continuing with the representation model. We plan to improve the migration from representations in a future release.  So what's missing?: Primarily some editing tool capabilities, marker editing, and shape overrides. Editing tool enhancements are in the product plan. For marker editing, we've gone down the path of promoting import of graphics from SVG and modifying (e.g. color / rotation) after import. Shape overrides are something we're still evaluating. ... View more

What functionality is missing for your needs? ... View more

Align Marker to Stroke Or Fill automated the setting of the rotation value.  That is what I was stating.  If you've split your road classes into separate layers, you may need to run it more than once.  It's still faster than an initial hand edit.  Additional hand edits could be made afterward. As stated above, symbol rotation is not set when rotating a point as with representations, this is something we'll look at for a future release. If you're a heavy user of shape overrides, this functionality is not present in ArcGIS Pro symbology. As for those who make copies of geometry, it's very common in multi-scale map production across a variety of organizations. ... View more

In the future, rotation of a point should update the rotation of rotated 2D symbols.  This will make your workflow equivalent with representations.  That said, your workflow could be automated with the Align Marker to Stroke Or Fill tool which can automate the rotation of Point symbols to be perpendicular to the line. The graphic style alignment tools are not implemented yet, but Representations are not specifically needed to achieve this. We've been working on cartographic functionality in every release of ArcGIS Pro. Every release has been a "focusing on cartography" release, but we have more to add. ... View more