Latest Contributions by SimonKettle

Yes sorry...I misunderstood your question. Do you mean using an ArcTool to clip several shapefiles and have them automatically rename with a _clip suffix? Are you using Arc10? Because when I batch clip a bunch of shapefiles it automatically renamed all the shapefiles as "..._clip" and puts them into the default geodatabase (which is quite tidy) My method is open ModelBuilder from ArcMap >Insert a variable (shapefile)>RC>properties>list of values then add the Clip (Analysis) tool [then add what your clipping to etc...]. This then produces feature classes in the default geodatabase with the suffix "_clip". N.B you can drag shapefiles that are open in the TOC in ArcMAP into the variable. If you are using 9.3.1 or an older version of ArcGIS you could use the same process but change the output folder to a folder of your choice (i.e. create a folder in ArcCatalog before starting the process). The using bulk rename utility edit all the files to include a suffix. I hope that helps. ... View more

I guess you got this working...but...another way is open ModelBuilder from ArcMap with all the shapefiles you want inside the table of contents; add a "create variable" shapefile [DO NOT click multivalue] click OK then RC>properties and select a list of values. You can select all the layers in ArcMap and drag and drop them into the variable...this works for me. Using the feature-feature tool dumps converts the shapefiles to features classes and places them in the default geodatabase. ... View more

I use "bulk rename utility" for doing this exact operation... http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php all you do it open up the programme and go to the folder in question within Microsoft Explorer and select your files and edit appropriately. Easy peasy... Cheers, ... View more

Have you attempted to try loading the files in ArcMap with the Bing maps basemap or using ArcExplorer instead of Google Earth? Adding to Michaels comments above: Exporting to KML in ArcMap always uses a ZIP compression (which you can't edit as far as I am aware)...so (using Map to KML tool under Conversion Tools and "To KML") I would suggest being careful with the map output scale and if you can use the Extent to export which is the geographic extent of the area to be exported (i.e. lower left and upper right coordinate locations) and also the image size which is the size of image in pixels therefore defining vertical and horizontal resolution of the raster. Additionally edit the dpi setting which defines the raster dpi. I hope this helps... ... View more

I think it would be worthwhile finding out what the pros and cons are when comparing Bing maps and Google maps...in my opinion Bing maps work just fine (although both have small errors of accuracy and Bing Maps are of low resolution in areas outside of highly populated regions like Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia) however, Google as a brand has captivated the market for world coverage of aerial imagery and alot of qustions on this forum as ask how can I use it Google Maps in ArcMap? But does Google really have 'better' imagery? or system? Cheers, ... View more

In my experience the raster to polygon tool works best using a TIFF file also ERROR 999999 sometimes means insufficent memory so try cutting the size of the raster. But you can us any valid integer raster dataset, so the cells represent discrete data not floating point raster data...and have any cell size. Just make sure you use appropriate tool...when you convert to ASCII are the raster numbers decimals (floating raster) or whole integer (discrete data raster)? http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgiSDEsktop/9.1/index.cfm?TopicName=Floating%20point%20and%20integer%20data http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Raster_to_Polygon/001200000008000000/ ... View more

Try opening it in ArcMap and use the clip tool from there...rather than ArcScene or ArcCatalog You mention a las file...do you use or have access to Petrel? ... View more

That is wierd...too me it must still be a colour calibration thing. Could you export your map to a JPEG/TIFF or something other than PDF and see is the colour issue is still there? And check for updates on your Adobe Reader from Help>Check for updates. This will determine if it is Adobe and not something in the export process from ArcMap. Also, if you try changing the colour calibration to Adobe RGB(HP).. shown in your attachment...to see if that works. ... View more

Do you mean that the imagery is cut off the sides? Or is it missing from the 'artboard' in layout view. If it is cut off at the edges you  could try resizing the paper size in layout view. Maybe your raster data is being 'cut' since it falls off the page extent. Are you using Raster Imagery or Bing Maps basemaps from the internet? ... View more

Hi James, From what i have seen the ESRI.style is greyed out in the Style Manager window and therefore you can only copy it. Have you tried copying a ramp into one of your own Styles and making it your default style? (By opening Style Manager>click Styles...on the RH and Create New Style) Then...open Styel Manager again...click Styles...button and tick your new style to make it default. If you are using Arc10 when you want to select a new symbology this will be at the top of the list. If this dosn't change the default colour ramp try using within the Layer Properties>Symbology Tab>Categories>Match to symbols in a Style and see if that helps this will only keep the symbology for that *.mxd doc but may help with visualising your data. I hope this helps ... View more

If only DEM were made to a 1m resolution! Now that would be great! Like Melita said check with the local authority in AOI and see if there is better data available through them. LiDAR would be excellent! ... View more

Try looking through Exprodat's blogs http://www.exprodat.com/Blogs/ and ISBN:1589480031 Understandig Map Projections by Kennedy and Kopp ... View more

Hi Justin, Sounds to me that this is not a screen colour calibration problem (my first though) since both programmes are producing different colours but it may be because the colour profile in Adobe is different to that in ArcMap. It wont be your printer per se that is the problem but how it converts the file information into colour on printed paper, which may be different for different programmes unless you have a standard colour profile (ICC). Are you using Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat? and do you have Adobe Creative Suite? If you have CS: Within Adobe Photoshop where you can open the PDF it should pop up with a warning about the colour transformation>click through discarding it and from there you can pull down "Edit" at the bottom click "Convert to profile" and use a more appropriate colour setting. From my understanding Adobe RGB(1998) is the best colour scheme as most printers understand this profile. This link may be of some help http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps10_colour/ps10_1.htm But if you are only using Adobe Reader I am not sure you can play with the colour settings. I hope this helps. ... View more

Yep exactly what Robert said...maybe the amount of disk space being used is too large. ... View more

No problem, glad to help. It get easier with practice 🙂 ... View more