Latest Contributions by MarcoBoeringa

Do you actually need an ESRI "Geo-"database, or just a "spatial" database? Setting triggers and stored procedures on an ESRI Geodatabase is generally not recommended, as you may be trashing the geodatabase by your stored procedures and triggers interfering with the ESRI designed ones and data model. If you just need a spatial database to store stuff, and want to manage it yourself, you can use the pyodbc Python package that is part of the package list in ArcGIS Pro in the Python Package Manager, to insert data in the database through cursors, and use database DDL and DML statements via ODBC to manage your database. You can subsequently access the created data by running the Add Incrementing ID Field tool to add an objectid field (or manage a similar unique ID field yourself), and then use ArcGIS Query Layers to add the data to ArcGIS as read-only layers (that can however be input to other tools). I have done all of this based on a PostGIS database installed on Ubuntu running in Oracle's Virtualbox virtualization environment on a Windows 10 host. It takes time to get familiar with all of this, but is do-able. Of course, since you are not going to create an ESRI Geodatabase through this method, editing data, and using any of the advanced Geodatabase behaviors and functionality, is out of the question. Be aware of that (Actually, editing data may be possible through a web Feature Service, but I have never tried that and it requires ArcGIS Enterprise / Server to publish the service, also see this link for information regarding accessing a non-geodatabase spatial database: Databases and ArcGIS—Help | Documentation ). ... View more

I noticed the "Extract Data Task" screenshots also show a "Raster Format" parameter, and set to "ESRI GRID". ESRI GRID is an old format, and could be finicky with file paths, especially things like spaces or special characters, that you should avoid. Is the "Raster Format" parameter actually used in your case? If so, maybe trying to switch to another raster data format might help. Secondly, I see in one of the screenshots, just before the other "Failed" messages, a "Consolidation Failed" message. I see some other messages about e.g. lack of disk space on the drive where consolidation of data takes place, or the consolidation process not being able to find the data involved, in this older thread: https://community.esri.com/thread/56303  The link above also in one of the posts there, points to a setting that is also in ArcGIS Pro (Go to Options/Share and Download in Pro), where you can set where to "consolidate" the data before publishing. Maybe trying to set this folder to another drive (it defaults to your user profile which may be resource limited in your organization), and using a shorter path, may help. ... View more

Jamal NUMAN‌, I wonder if this is a regression bug in Pro 2.5? I am still at 2.4, and in a similar case, I can pan through the model, and the Pan tool isn't disabled as it is in your screenshot. Can you also confirm that you were able to do this in 2.4? Screenshot from my Pro 2.4: ... View more

To be honest, I have a hard time understanding the problem from your explanation. For now, I would like to point out some of ESRI's Heather Smith's recent blog post about coordinate systems, that may be of some help in understanding differences between GCS and PCS etc.: Geographic vs Projected Coordinate Systems  Coordinate Systems: What's the Difference?  Projection on the fly and geographic transformations  ... View more

I do also recommend to regularly clear out the geoprocessing history in Pro. Just like in ArcMap, Pro accumulates a lot of junk in the geoprocessing history, which can significantly bloat the project file (this was also a problem in ArcMap, I once had an mxd of > 50MB due to this), and slow down save and open times of projects. ... View more

See this thread also: https://community.esri.com/thread/250155-wheres-arcgis-for-personal-use  ... View more

ArcGIS for Personal Use is not a downloadable "product" by itself, it is a licensing type. This means you simply need to download & install the products from the My ESRI site that you can access if logged in on the ESRI website after having bought the license, and in the case of ArcMap / ArcGIS for Desktop, separately authorize the software with instructions you should be getting from ESRI once you've completed the purchase and ESRI acknowledged that. For ArcGIS Pro, you do not need to authorize the software like with ArcMap, simply being logged in with the same account that was registered for your Personal Use license, should work. Pro will prompt you for that if you start it up. ... View more

I think the chances of that ever happening are next to nil. Pro is so tight up with the whole Windows and Windows Presentation Foundation thing, which isn't going to be available in a Linux environment anytime soon, if discussions like these are a reliable measure: Make WPF cross-platform (MacOS and Linux support) · Issue #48 · dotnet/wpf · GitHub  Have you tried using Oracle's free Virtualbox once? I currently run an Ubuntu instance with PostgreSQL 11 in Virtualbox on Windows 10 as host, and access it from Python using the 'pyodbc' package that you can install from the ArcGIS Pro package manager. Works really nicely to create tables and views, that I subsequently access as ArcGIS 'Query Layers' after adding an ObjectID column using the 'Add Incrementing ID Field' geoprocessing tool. I even use Python multi-threading and record-by-record updates to insert and generalize data in PostGIS. Here's an image of my small test Core i7 server going flat out on all 4 cores / 8 threads generalizing data using Python multi-threading from ArcGIS Pro: ... View more

Well, there is the ArGIS for Personal Use program, that gives you a whole smack of software of ESRI, including ArcGIS for Desktop, ArcGIS Pro, the SDKs, most extensions etc, for a very affordable per year price (here in the Netherlands 100 euro / year): ArcGIS for Personal Use Program | ArcGIS Desktop Advanced for Personal Use  Only caveat is that it may not be used for commercial work, only non-profit. I guess your situation may be a bit of a grey area, depending on how you have been contracted. If you are on the payroll of these organizations, them having the licenses to cover your day-to-day job, and not hired as external consultant, I guess there is not a whole lot wrong with using the Personal Use license because it would in fact be just another additional sale for ESRI (albeit a small one compared to a full commercial seat), but you'd have to contact an ESRI representative to be sure. ... View more

As always, your likely best resource is the "System Design Strategies" Wiki pages maintained by ESRI as part of the Wiki GIS platform: System Design Strategies - GIS Wiki | The GIS Encyclopedia  And things like the "Capacity Planning" tool referenced therein, a spreadsheet that allows you to do calculations. More general information about GIS accessible here: New to GIS - GIS Wiki | The GIS Encyclopedia  ... View more

Jamal, You really should spend a bit of time to familiarize yourself with all the options in the Maplex label engine. Yes, it can be intimidating in the beginning, but once you get to know some of the most important settings, and develop a feeling for their effect, you should be able to handle these label jobs fine. The lower image shows what can be achieved with careful Maplex label settings and distinct label classes, all of the labeling in that image is dynamically placed by Maplex. Not a single manual intervention. And ultimately, if you want full control, Annotation is the way to go, but that is largely manual placement. However, I don't think that is what you want, and dynamic labeling with Maplex has the advantage of well... being dynamic! It will adjust to changes in the data (although feature linked annotation is based on field contents as well). ... View more

I noticed you have used some pretty big symbols. If you've set a label offset, and it uses an offset from the feature geometry, the problem may actually be that the set label offset is to small to avoid overlap with the large capital symbol and that might cause the loss of the capital label. Try the "Measure offset from the exact symbol outline" option instead, to see if that helps and if it makes the capital label appear. ... View more

What is that you actually want to achieve, have the labels somehow "fit" your country polygons by rotating them? Or do you want to rotate the entire map including all of its labels? If the former, I think Maplex's curve fitting and label font scaling options are far more appropriate and convenient than some manually set rotation angle. E.g., see these nice examples of labels that fit the glaciers by using Maplex curved fitting options and font scaling. ... View more

This is the view of the available "Developer Tools" download in "My ESRI" for my Personal Use license, so ArcObjects SDK is available. However, I strongly recommend to develop in Pro's new SDK. ArcObjects is dead in the waters with ArcMap eventually going. Alternative is Python scripting. I developed an ArcMap / Pro and Python 2.x/3.x compatible toolbox with Python scripting that runs really nicely in both apps using the Python "future" package, so essentially writing 3.x code. E.g. put this in the header of all your scripts for a start: from __future__ import print_function from __future__ import absolute_import from __future__ import unicode_literals from __future__ import division ... View more