Latest Contributions by SteveCole

No, not within Pro. You would have to do that in Photoshop. One alternative might be to look through the ESRI Imagery Wayback for another image that has less cars in your area of interest. You can look at this Blog post about the Wayback and there's a link at the very bottom about using it in ArcGIS Pro ... View more

Not sure what you're asking for. Are you looking for the best color choices to accomplish what you describe? If so, you can use the ColorBrewer website to color combinations that appear distinct but work together. ... View more

I just opened a blank AGOL map, searched AGOL for the Imagery basemap & added it to my map and clicked on the map.. ... View more

There is metadata about when a given area was acquired. In the online realm, you have to add the basemap as a layer to your map and then when you click an area, you'll get a popup with the image acquired date. I'm not aware of a systematic update cycle for the imagery. I think they wait until users clamor for an update in a given area (due to a natural disaster event or significant change etc) or some other beneficial acquisition happens (in the US the USDA acquires new ortho photos for each state on a multi-year rotation). ... View more

Have you looked at the Network tab in your browser's developer's Tools? Are there requests to the layers in question and are those requests returning any results? I had a situation awhile ago where I had an existing app and someone told me that only some features were now displaying. I had made no changes to the data so I was really perplexed. In my situation, I was using a custom symbol (uploaded to one of our servers and referenced via custom symbol URL) and for some reason, that request to the symbol was no longer getting fulfilled. I eventually discovered that the features *were* getting displayed but the symbol wasn't loading so if you knew where a feature was, you could click on it and still get a popup. My eventual fix was to re-specify the custom symbol inside the web map and then the features finally re-displayed. Not sure if that's what you're experiencing but it's something to cross off the list. Steve ... View more

Thanks. I'll keep this in mind when I have to update this layer again next year. I got around this issue by publishing with a new name rather than trying to overwrite it and then using AGO Assistant to update the layer URLs. The dataset in question did have more than 3,000 records so what you describe may have been an issue but I don't recall really doing anything different when I re-published with a different name. ... View more

One thing to be aware of is that Portal is the caboose in terms of ESRI's rollout of new features so if you're building applications (even ones that aren't code based), just know that the Portal version web applications will be the last to receive those new features which likely debuted in AGOL or the Developer versions. You get as many free viewer accounts as you'd like to create but ESRI still gets its 30 pieces of silver because you have to pay for additional user roles with elevated capabilities (publishing feature layers, editing data, etc). This might get mitigated if you have an enterprise site license, I dunno (I'm not involved on that side of the equation). I do like the hosted side of things with Portal since I've never felt like our ArcGIS Server implementation could handle the load of a lot of services. Taking data which isn't updated a lot and then hosting it inside of Portal can take the pressure off of your AG Servers which might be serving up more vital, time sensitive information. Just a few random $0.02.. Steve ... View more

Here are some resources I found when I had to create a point layer of street intersections last year. ESRI BLOG - More Adventures in Overlay: creating a street intersection list (data/model download link is broken) create point shapefile of street intersections from polyline - ArcEditor   You just need to get the two streets into their own fields and then you can use a field calculation to do a bulk concatenation of the two fields into a new, separate field. Hopefully you don't have more than 2 streets intersecting. 😬   Steve ... View more

THANK YOU. I missed the news that it had been replaced. I just registered the site and was able to log in. ... View more

The sad reality is that developers are between a rock and a hard place. ESRI deprecated WAB before EB reached parity, and the differences between developer/AGOL/Portal are maddening. I'm in the same boat with a 3.x JS API app that I decided to migrate to WAB only to find out that WAB is getting replaced by EB. My migration to WAB got most of the way to what I wanted but there were some annoyances that I now know won't get enhanced due to its replacement by EB. I've found EB to be particularly useless in the Portal environment. I can't implement any of my desired core functionality with where it currently stands. FWIW, here is a functionality matrix ESRI published about 2 years ago which is updated over time: Functionality Matrix for WAB vs EB The matrix does NOT differentiate between developer / AGOL / Portal versions of EB, however. ... View more

You can't unlock it because it's a raster image, specifically it's "trees17.bmp" as originally provided with Arcmap. In other words, it's one of the standard picture styles that ESRI uses in its symbology. If you want to tweak it, you'll need to make a copy of the image, make whatever adjustments you'd like in an image editing program (Photoshop, Affinity, Fastone Image Viewer, etc) and then bring it back into Pro as one of your symbol layers. I'm still avoiding Pro as much as possible so I'm not sure where these files are stored within a Pro installation but for Arcmap, they are found in the <base installation folder>/Styles/Pictures subfolder.   ... View more