Latest Contributions by MarcoBoeringa

‎11-26-2019

I had a user recently request a large, highly detailed wall-map of the city. The map has lots of street labeling. The Maplex labeling performance is much SLOWER in ArcGIS Pro. I wound up giving up on Pro for this project because I just didn't want to wait that long for every refresh while tuning the labeling. Measurements: ArcMap: 1 minute. ArcGIS Pro: 3 minutes. Just "three minutes"? You make me laugh... 😉 I have build a complex renderer for OpenStreetMap data that is completely dependent on Maplex as well for all labeling. For an A0 1:M scale Europe map, it probably took half a day for Maplex to figure out the label positions when set to "Best" quality and to output the final PDF (which used transparent hillshading as well, allthough not much visible in the images below, and also a performance killer on export). Granted, this is taking it to the extreme... ;-): Detail:

‎11-25-2019

Ah, sorry, I am actually using a combination of the Terrain: Multi-Directional Hillshade Terrain: Elevation Tinted Hillshade layers stacked.

‎11-25-2019

Rajinder Nagi, Although not exactly the same bug descriptions, but I got these two issues logged a while ago through the Dutch branch of ESRI: BUG-000122033 Intermittently, exporting a layout to a pdf if the map is using a coordinate system other than Web Mercator, the Terrain: Tinted Hillshade living atlas layer will export blocky and won't draw the entire layer if it is exported with "Best" image quality with a dpi greater than 96 and a page size greater than 64 x 33. BUG-000122689 Exporting layout to pdf that contain Terrain: Elevation Tinted Hillshade layer and high dpi will not draw the entire layer and some grid visible for all image quality. Since they may be related, could you potentially look up if any work has been done on these registered issues?

‎11-24-2019

I am not entirely surprised. Your use of pyodbc and sending the SQL straight over to the database for evaluation, is bound to be the fastest option, as everything happens on the database server itself. Calling a geoprocessing tool inherently already has an overhead in terms of e.g. toolvalidation. In addition, but this is a bit of speculation from my side, it could well be that, in order to actually calculate the lat/long values, the da.UpdateCursor actually fetches the entire records and has them send over to your client PC. Combine that with a possible client side calculation of the actual lat/long values, and sending the result subsequently back to the database server in a row update statement, and there is both a lot more traffic and hoops to go through before you have your final result. Anyway, maybe you can get a better insight in what is happening with da.UpdateCursor if you watch the incoming SQL statements on the server through e.g. pgAdmin (if using PostgreSQL) or a similar tool for another RDBMS.

‎11-11-2019

Hi Kory, Thanks, yes that helps. Yes, the text is subtle, and combined with my ignorance of how far reaching these new options are in terms of possible connections between attributes and symbology, I hadn't yet fathomed this, especially since I haven't yet tried out the options as described in the mini-tutorial included in the Help page. That ignorance was cleared up by your screenshot though...

‎11-11-2019

Jamal, Your "on-chip" Intel Iris graphics, instead of a dedicated graphics card, is in your case very likely part of the problem. The 32GB is just shared RAM memory, not dedicated fast DDR5 graphics memory as on a separate graphics card. I see my laptop's NVidia graphics card with 4GB dedicated DDR5 video RAM continuously spinning up to max usage with Pro. Not having such a card, will surely limit Pro.

‎11-11-2019

"Sometimes I feel as if I’m working with web App but not desktop!" I think this remark is not far off the mark... and at least part of the problem. ArcGIS Pro's UI is in fact build based on Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF: see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/dotnet/articles/aa663364(v=msdn.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN) which is according to that page: "They are: a unified platform for modern user interfaces, the ability for developers and designers to work together, and a common technology for Windows and Web browser user interfaces" As you can see, WPF is at least a shared technology with web browser UI's. I think Microsoft never envisioned or optimized WPF for applications as big and complex as ArcGIS Pro. Even the non-web version of Outlook can be really sluggish if it has to deal with hundreds or thousands of emails in an Inbox. It is probably only part of the issues, and ESRI definitely has made improvements in some areas in the last few releases (e.g.this partially implemented Idea from myself https://community.esri.com/ideas/15362-arcgis-pro-stop-queuing-senseless-ui-tasks-performance-issue), but I do think it may play a role here. That said, I don't think ESRI had any other logical choice for a pure Windows desktop application like Pro.

‎11-09-2019

I have a point layer file that I imported from ArcMap into ArcGIS Pro. In ArcMap, the advanced symbol property of "Rotation" was set, and when I inspect the symbology properties in Pro, I see the rotation field properly set in the "Vary symbology by attribute" TAB of the Symbology pane. So far, so good, the layer displays the rotation properly as well, so no issue here. But at the bottom of the Symbology pane, when "Vary symbology by attribute" is the active pane, there is a checkbox "Allow symbol property connections". It is not clear to me, what this option does?? According to the Help page here: Attribute-driven symbology—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation "When you are in the Format Symbol mode of the Symbology pane, click the menu button to ensure that Allow symbol property connections is checked, indicating that the layer is enabled for attribute-driven symbology. If this option is checked and disabled, one or more properties are already connected for this layer." This text suggests that for some reason you are supposed to additionally activate the attribute driven symbology by checking this box on. In my case it isn't checked on, but still, the rotation is applied properly??? So what does this option do?

‎11-08-2019

Hi Matt, This may be a far fetch, but I wonder if there is a relation with this issue as seen with PDFs exported from ArcGIS Pro that contain partially transparent ESRI basemaps?: Why does the World Hillshade show tiles when exported to PDF? ArcGIS Pro 2.4 The visual result / defect is remarkably similar..., see the attached image in the OP's post in that thread and that represents results I have seen as well when exporting PDFs from Pro.

‎11-06-2019

I have seen similar issues with PDFs exported from Pro and the World Hillshade layer set to transparent (about 80%). I actually use it in combination with the Multidirection Hillshade (also set to transparent). To be honest, I am not sure if this is actually an issue with the way ESRI writes these PDFs with the raster basemaps and transparency from Pro, or a bug in Adobe Reader that Adobe should fix... The issue seems to "shift" when I scroll and pan through the map in Adobe Reader. An area that does not look good at one point, may look good later on when I pan back. The quadcore Core i7 laptop I am viewing them on has the latest NVidia drivers and a dedicated graphics card with 4GB DDR5 RAM, so I don't think it is an issue with an under resourced laptop.

‎10-29-2019

I think the closest to your "simple sheet" with "recommended network settings for working with file geodatabases in a network environment" is ESRI's System Design Strategies Wiki pages. Unfortunately, although still partially maintained and updated with e.g. recent 2019 benchmarks, ESRI still does not directly or clearly link to it: http://wiki.gis.com/wiki/index.php/System_Design_Strategies IMHO, they should put up a permanent "Recommended Content" link to the above System Design Strategies from e.g. the main Support page...: https://support.esri.com/en/ It is listed under "Other Resources" as "wiki.GIS.com" but that is totally unhelpful in realizing how valuable this content is...

‎10-25-2019

This to me sounds a bug, not an Idea. I think you should report this to ESRI Support. The name of the option "Forced split" and also the Help here: Stack labels—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop "If Forced split is checked, a split always happens at the character, and stacking always occurs." are quite clear: forced split should always result in a split. If it doesn't, it is likely a bug in Maplex.

‎10-24-2019

Really nice "detective work" and read up about the Spilhaus projection in that story map describing the search for the reconstruction of it. And beatiful maps by John Nelson.

‎10-12-2019

Currently, it appears that spatial bookmarks in ArcMap and Pro as created with the "Bookmarks" options, do not store the Coordinate System and Transformation of the Data Frame in ArcMap, or Map in Pro. As a consequence, when switching the map to another coordinate system, and subsequently selecting a bookmark to return to a previously visited extent, the zooming or panning will not reflect the actual extent and Coordinate System of the originally bookmarked location. You need to manually reset the Coordinate System to be able to re-visit the exact same extent as stored with the bookmark. It would be really desirable to see the spatial bookmarks store the Coordinate System and Transformation as well, so that zoom or pan option truly return you to the exact extent of a region bookmarked by automatically resetting the Coordinate System and Transformation of the Data Frame or Map in Pro, instead of taking you to a rough approximate location of the stored bookmark. This is especially useful for accurate multiscale map documents, where the user may have different layers for different scale ranges in a single map, that may be best viewed in specific coordinate systems tailored to visibility scale range of the layers (e.g. Continental / Country level). Related to this Idea although not specifically mentioning Coordinate Systems: Smarter Bookmarks - SmartMarks Bookmarks enforce data frame rotation

‎10-06-2019

I don't know your requirements, but you are aware that you can access PostgreSQL/PostGIS spatial databases without enabling them as an ESRI Enterprise Geodatabase? Unless you have specific needs for an ESRI Enterprise Geodatabase due to ArcGIS editing workflows, need for advanced geodatabase data types, relationship classes etc, you may be able to simply connect to the spatial database using ArcGIS Query Layers and not enable an Enterprise Geodatabase. You just need to run the Add Incrementing ID Field tool against any spatial table in the PostGreSQL/PostGIS database if there is no suitable unique ID field for each record in the table. You will then be able to add a Query Layer including spatial columns to ArcGIS. If your requirements are just "read-only" access of PostGIS data maintained by another software package, this setup may suffice. I have run such a setup against large PostGIS databases with great success.

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Re: ArcGIS Pro: 2.4.2: In general, ArcPro has less performance than ArcMap,

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