Latest Contributions by ChrisSmith7

Yes, you're right - the reprojection to web mercator results in smaller cells from the conversion to meter, from foot. Sorry - should have clarified that as an observation rather than the cause. ... View more

Also, looking at your image, raster_cut_small contains more columns and rows; the cells are smaller, and there's a higher level for pyramids. All of this results in more data contained within the file. ... View more

Esri has a technical article discussing some of these reasons: 28470 - Why does the data bit depth increase when a raster is projected, rotated, or clipped? This can result in file size changes: 30560 - Why does the file size of my raster image change when I export or create a new image? ... View more

Not sure if I'm visualizing this correctly - is the problem exemplified in this jsfiddle I created? Bootstrap nav bar; mobile popup ArcGIS - JSFiddle ... View more

SDK Downloads | ArcGIS for Developers -> Log-in with your Esri account -> Scroll down to the "ArcGIS API for Silverlight" -> Click on the down arrow -> Select "3.2" That being said, I would highly recommend moving away from Silverlight ASAP. The technology is deprecated; it is no longer supported by Chrome, and other browsers will probably follow suit. Esri is dropping support June of 2016. You should really look at the JSAPI - ArcGIS API for JavaScript ... View more

Scott, As Mitch said, ArcGIS gets finicky sometimes with joins... If Dan's suggestion doesn't work for you still, you can try saving as a flat file (.txt, .csv). You can do this right from Excel, and then specify a schema.ini text file driver companion (ArcGIS should read this - just make sure it's in the same folder as your flat file): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms709353(v=vs.85).aspx Inside of the ini, you can specify your flat file, datatypes, etc, e.g. [Zips.txt] Col1=ZipCode Text Width 5 Col2=WindSpeed Integer Width 2 You shouldn't have to do this, but it does allow you to get down to the basics and eliminate funkiness. ... View more

Michael, Issues crop-up with exporting to PDF from time-to-time - I can remember all sorts of fun stuff happening years back, like fire hydrants turning into hurricane symbols on export, etc. I would recommend looking over 17783 - Diagnose an ArcMap printing or exporting problem There's some info on troubleshooting the export and some recommendations on how to remedy. ... View more

I don't know if this will do exactly what you want to do, but you can copy services from one server to another - here's information on doing that: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server You will probably need to start them manually; however, there's a tool you may be able to use, or at least re-purpose, that can start services automatically: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//0154000005qv000000 ... View more

Looks like Robert has provided an answer - I don't have anything constructive to say except that I like your mockup! ... View more

Nice! I am using the "print" service as our "export" feature. For browser printing, I am simply scraping the HTML from the map container and creating a static print pop-up. This works fairly well. ... View more

Silverlight is no longer allowed on Chrome, for one - there's no way to enable it, period. Additionally, Esri is retiring Silverlight and Flex June 1, 2016 - http://downloads.esri.com/support/product%20life%20cycle/online_gis/ArcGISWebMappingAPIs_PLC.pdf If your user base employs IE, are happy with the level of functionality currently given by Silverlight, and will never need Esri's help after 2016, you can still use Silverlight - I would just recommend moving away from it as fast as you can. Silverlight officially dies 10/12/2021, but it is important to note that browser support will likely decrease in the coming years. I can envision a scenario where it is solely supported by IE, under very specific circumstances. ... View more

Merrrr, I hope I just didn't do a whole homework assignment for you... You'd better make this a good research paper! Make sure you understand exactly what just happened... I think the biggest stumbling block is just getting the data into ArcMap - the rest of this stuff you probably already knew. ... View more

Also, here's some info on working with layout view: Displaying maps in data view and layout view—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop And printing the map: About map printing—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop Here's information on symbolizing based on quantity: About symbolizing layers to represent quantity—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop  I would also recommend adding a map legend, scalebar, north arrow, etc. ... View more

Chase, Try this: 1) Save in notepad, e.g. myfile.txt: 2) Open Excel 3) Open file 4) Choose "all files (*.*)" in drop-down 5) Navigate to directory containing your .txt 6) Choose "Delimited" in the import wizard 7) Check "My data has header" 😎 Start import at row 1 9) Next 10) Choose "Tab" as delimiter 11) You can leave the text qualifier as " 12) Next 13) Click on the STATE_CODE column 14) Choose "Text" as format 15) Click on the ALUMNI_NUMBER column 16) Looks like you can leave as "General" for the format type 17) Finish 18) Verify Excel output 19) Save as .xlsx if you have Excel 2007+ installed on your GIS box, otherwise, save as .xls 20) Open ArcMap 21) Add data 22) Double click on your .xls 23) Select the worksheet 24) Add 25) Right click and confirm the attribute table 26) Download state shapefile - ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2015/STATE/tl_2015_us_state.zip 27) Unzip 28) Add data in ArcMap 29) Navigate to the State shapefile - "tl_2015_us_state.shp" 30) Verify rendering in ArcMap 31) Right-click "tl_2015_us_state" 32) Joins and Relates 33) Join 34) Join attributes from a table 35) 1 - STUSPS 36) 2 - myfile$ 37) STATE_CODE 38) Keep all records 39) Validate join 40) Close 41) OK 42) Right-click "tl_2015_us_state" 43) Open attribute table 44) Scroll over to the last two columns 45) Confirm Join 46) Close table 47) Right-click "tl_2015_us_state" 48) Properties 49) Symbology tab 50) Quantities 51) Graduated colors 52) Value - ALUMNI_NUMBER 53) OK 54) Review choropleth ... View more