Latest Contributions by ModyBuchbinder

The common way to include buildings in a viewshed analysis is to translate the buildings into raster, then add it to the original DTM to get a new DTM with building and then run the analysis on the new DTM. The problem with this is that most DTM is low resolution (10 meter is good dtm for most areas). The vector data is in better accuracy. You need to resample you 10 meter raster into 1 meter raster (100 times bigger) to get good results.  Is there any other option? Do you think putting an idea in esri site to include polygon layer in the viewshed is a good idea? ... View more

Trying to change license type (from named user to float) takes a few minutes in 2.6 The scroll just does not opened. Works fine (on the same machine) in 2.5 Anybody else see this problem? Thanks Mody  ... View more

Hello all I could not find any class or example for in memory workspace. From the other hand there are many arcpy examples with in memory. So (for example) if I run a GP tool from the SDK and let arcpy create a feature class in memory how do I access it from my code after it was created. Thanks ... View more

I would like to build a tool that will load MXD as web map (with reference layers). I found the MXD to web map GP tool in ArcMap that does exactly this. Since it is a python script I checked the source and found that its base on ago library. In github it say that this library is not updated in the last few years but this is still supported tool. I could write a script that combine ArcMap arcpy (that can publish to server) and python API that can create a web map from map service. Maybe I can write a script that call REST calls to do it. Anybody have done it or have any advice? The script should run for a few years until everybody moved to Pro Thanks ... View more

Hello all I have a python script that gets some parameters and return a json. It uses the json.dumps(Dictionary) command When I run it from PyScripter I get a great json (see below). When I run it from ArcMap (as a tool) or from the GpService the json have a few problems: 1) key (3435) is not quoted. 2) Single quote and not double quote 3) All strings have u (u'461') in the beginning From Gp Service: {3435: {'KM to': '5.0', 'road_num': u'461', ... From pyScripter: {"3435": {"KM to": "5.0", "road_num": "461" When I put the second string in json beautifier it looks great, the first one does not work at all. Is there any setting for the json.dumps that make it works? ... View more