Latest Contributions by SimonKettle

Have you also seen the Oceans Resource Centre page. You can search through a gallery of resources such as basemaps, products, data models, tools and more related to oceans and science. Oceans | ArcGIS Resource Center‌ ... View more

Are you looking for pipeline data itself or the data you may use for routing? Such as a DEM, obstructions etc... It is difficult to get hold of pipeline data for free, I have found. Only quite coarse data for smaller scale viewing is readily available. But if you're in the US have a look at the following for pipeline location data. GIS Data: Global Maps and Geospatial - Platts‌ MapSearch - GIS Data Maps, Energy Maps, Atlases & Wall Maps for Energy Industry‌ ... View more

Hi Fionn, Have you had a look at http://www.georepository.com ? This is quite a good site to find out the CRS of a given area. For the area you describe I found the following possible projection: North Pole Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (Europe) with WGS84 / North Pole LAEA Europe as an applicable CRS. I believe this is a valid projection for the world at latitudes of 45 degrees and above. Simon ... View more

Thanks...but I am conducting a process where I have shapefiles that I am joining to a CSV table. Then to make the join permanent I am using the copy tool. Whenever I do this it uses the orginal filename from the shapefile and adds "_CopyFeature" to it. Within Model Builder I cannot see how to copy the shapefile to the geodatabase without the "_CopyFeature" ... View more

It would be nice to see them available as a style file for download and possibly as another option downloadable as EMF so, if one wanted, editing is easy. Have you tried contacting ESRI at their mapping centre? They maybe able to help you distribute them through ESRI... ... View more

Have a look at this link http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/21180 and see if you can print to PDF. If you can do that you can open the PDF in Illustrator. I have had to do this before but because I only had 10s items it was quicker to drawn them manually in Illustrator! It would be good if ESRI could add an export STYLE feature where you can export to Illustrator. Hope that helps ... View more

A quick fix is to convert to graphics and move the features. This is only a temporary solution and if you need to edit it in the future you'd need a better fix. You can also play around with the scale or line thickness and other features in the symbology tab...I have had a similar issue when drawing thrust fault lines where the thrusts symbols (a solid triangle on a line) detatch a look silly. ... View more

This is a good point...I do not know of a watermarking system in ArcGIS...I would normally manually add an annotation or in the layout view some text (e.g. 48pt, bold red). But as I am sure you know having to set this up for Nth map will be silly. You could explore this site http://arcscripts.esri.com/scripts.asp?pg=1&sb=1&ob=asc&eDate=&n=&top=&eLang=6&eProd=28&perPage=10&eQuery=stamp&Submit2=search where you can stamp a map with a watermark usiong ArcObjects I hope this helps. I dot think it would be nice for ESRI to add this feature to ArcMap in a similar way that Adobe have there watermark feature in Acrobat. ... View more

Equally, if your not working within the USA...similar differences can be found with Google. Imagery with Bing for Iraq and Iran is not so good (only getting imagery to 1:60000) but surprisingly Google Maps is excellent where even in the rural Zagros mountains I can see individual outcrops and camp sites. It all depend on what you want and where and researching where the best free data is and utilising it (just make sure you reference where the data has come from!) ... View more

Within ArcMap there are also the symbols "Petroleum" and "Petroleum UK" I would also suggest USGS site http://geology.er.usgs.gov/eespteam/vtp/symbols.html and ESRI Geologic Template http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/map-templates/details?entryID=6AA281F3-1422-2418-8825-C44631AFA8EE and http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=bb02aa75305f40ff87fb6106aa297da9 Hopefully you'll get some more symbols from these... ... View more

Thanks for all your help...I will have a look at utilising all your ideas. Thanks again for all your help! ... View more

Thank you very much...I am not very good at constructing syntax so will have a go at building on it. Cheers again. ... View more