Latest Contributions by V_StuartFoote

Robert, Set the seat license type radio button to ArcInfo (Single Use) rather than ArcView (Single Use), from the ArcGIS Administrator --> Desktop configuration panel. Stuart ... View more

Faidess, You may prefer to install a proper ftp client application, I prefer FileZilla current release is v 3.5.3. If you choose that--Install it, and from File --> Site Manager, create a site as in the attached image.  You'll find you can navigate the ftp server with ease at that point. Stuart ... View more

Faidess, ESRI provides the ESRI.APWR.AppRegWork utility to clean up residual Water Resource components like AppFramework. The program ESRI.APWR.ApRegWork.exe, is available from the ESRI run community FTP portal ftp://RiverHydraulics:river%[email protected]/ApRegwork/ApRegWork/ It is an intuitive utility to use, but instructions for its use and other installation and configuration details are provided in the ReadmeMMDDYYYY.doc file for download from the root of the FTP site. While connected to the site, I suggest you download the 5.0.0.72 release of HEC GeoHMS from the /HECGeoHMS/Setup9.3.1/5.0.0.72/ directory. Once you've used the AppRegWork utility to clear out residual assemblies, go ahead and install that package--it will install the correct AppFramework, ArcHydro and GeoHMS for use with ArcGIS 9.3.1. Stuart ... View more

Caitlin, If you've licensed the AHGW Extension from Aquaveo contact them for some help. Additionally, believe this thread on the Aquaveo Using ArcHydro Groundwater forum applies to you. Stuart ... View more

Behrouz, The ArcPy site library from ArcGIS 10.0 is hard linked against 32-bit Python 2.6; and at ArcGIS 10.1 it will be against 32-bit Python 2.7 It will not work in Python 3.2, and certainly won't work in 64-bit Python. If you have an ArcGIS Desktop License you can work against the 32-bit ArcObjects COM assemblies with Python wrappers, several threads on doing so: Frank Perks comments on mapping COM assemblies with comtypes.client http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/15848-ArcMap-10-ArcObjects-and-Python-very-cool-but-help-with-a-couple-of-problems Or external refs: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/80/how-do-i-access-arcobjects-from-python based on M. Cederholms seminal work http://www.pierssen.com/arcgis/upload/misc/python_arcobjects.pdf But I haven't followed how they then behave in 64-bit Python environment if they work at all. Good luck. Stuart ... View more

Lee, Had to find an ArcGIS Desktop 10.0 system to work from -- GME 0.6.2 is compiled against Desktop 10.0 and chokes when installed on a 10.1 seat. Anyhow, kde worked from the GME GUI command builder interface but has a couple of quirks.  It didn't like pulling point features from an old 9.3 File GeoDatabase, but it consumed Point Shape files without issue. Also, for the output raster, had to be sure a full path to the raster was specified and not try to put the raster back into a File Geodatabase. I had to adjust the CELL size and BANDWIDTH (e.g. Radius) to complete processing of a useable raster.  But the resulting surface did show KDE, and the raster was registered into the projected coordinate system. For your UTM projected point data, for starters maybe try a cell size of 20 (meters) and a bandwidth of 200 (meters)--other than input, output, cell size and bandwidth the rest were defaults. And the extent becomes that of the input Point Feature class. Stuart ... View more

Lee, Syntax is pretty straight forward, is the point data projected and did you set an extent? [ATTACH=CONFIG]13736[/ATTACH] Stuart ... View more

Nils, Marcin Problem is even worse. 32-bit Python is not compiled LargeAddressAware, meaning it will only be able to address 2GB of user addressable memory space per process thread running on either 32-bit or 64-bit Windows. If working outside ArcGIS Desktop on 64-bit OS, use a 64-bit Python as an alternative environment for OSGeo processing--the GDAL libraries and NumPy in this case. You'd need to keep 32-python as primary for correct ArcGIS ArcPy functions. If just  a little more head room is needed to run 32-bit Python code to completion, it is possible to set 32-bit Python executables LargeAddressAware, so modified it can use a 3.2 GB in 32-bit OS, or a full 4GB of user addressable memory space in each thread in 64-bit OS.  Several forum threads with details. Stuart ... View more

Bill, Flow length is not going to help. The sequence is DEM --> Fill Dem --> Flow Direction --> Flow Accumulation -->  Stream Network (with Con or Set Null) --> Stream to Feature Keep the Flow Direction and Flow Accumulation grids for the study area handy, they get reused at different steps and take the longest to process.  Also, these are all performed as Esri grid data--so dataset file names must be short < 9 characters, no spaces. Then you can use any of the other tools for analysis tasks and map surface generation: Stream Order, Stream Link, Flow Length, Water Shed and Snap Pour, and Basin. Again ArcHydro Extension makes this processing pretty painless and provides flexibility of File Geodatabase scratch data and output FC. Stuart ... View more

Bill, I should also add that if you are not able to use the ArcHydro Tools extension, that the Hydrology toolset of the Spatial Analyst extension performs some of the same functions as ArcHydro, but you must manipulate each tool as a model workflow or directly scripted. The online or installed help provides much of the same information as the ArcHydro tutorials, but no step-by-step instructions. Start with a close read of the Hydrology toolset concepts and then study the syntax and use examples for each tool starting with the Overview of the Hydrology toolset. The Tutorial and data set in the ArcHydro Tools extension is a much more refined presentation--if you have the option, I'd start there. Stuart ... View more

Bill, Not sure where you pulled your instructions from. But the Esri ftp site has ArcHydro 2.x tutorial and data you should work through to start. Use an ftp tool like FileZilla and use the credentials from this ArcHydro for ArcGIS 10.0 thread. Download a current version of ArcHydro 2.1 setup (currently 2.1.0.43) from the /ArcHydro/Setup10 directory--you'll want to uninstall your existing version of ArcHydro and install this latest patched development version. Then from the /ArcHydro/Data/Tutorial/2.0 directory grab the DataforArcHydro20Tutorial.zip file (might as well get the data for the GeoProcessing turtorial as well) On the root of the ftp server, download the current ReadmeMMDDYYY.doc file--it has release and development notes for all the Water Resources projects including ArcHydro. Finally from the /ArcHydro/Doc/ArcHydro2_0 directory, download all the PDFs including the Tutorials--you'll want to read the overview and installation instructions and then start the tutorials. Work through the tutorials with a current build of ArcHydro and the right dataset and associated tutorial steps. You should not have any problem with the tutorial--only then have a go at processing your own data in ArcHydro. Post back if you get stuck again. Stuart ... View more

Not sure why he wanted to ask it in this forum, but these are contents of Pankaj's .xlsx table... [TABLE="class: grid"]DBMS GISType of dataAmount of data to analyze and to maintainType of analysis functionNumber of concurrent accessTransaction control mechanism includedAccess mechanism to protect data against non-authorized accessEmbedded mechanism to protect against system failureOccurrences (variety and type of occurrences) of distributed system ArchitecturesEmbedded standards (What type of standards?)Typical value of system within an enterprise (enterprise critical? Nice to have a system?)Type of user interfaces [/TABLE] Stuart ... View more

Jeff, Check if running the ArcGIS File Handler -- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\ArcGIS\bin\ArcGISFileHandler.exe, and toggle the Layer options from Automatically select to ArcGIS Explorer, or alternatively ArcMap, is of any help. Similar for the Web Map Options panel--select ArcGIS Explorer or ArcMap as you need. Also, it will apply to all ArcGIS component launches, but you might toggle the Package Location Options from Automatically Select to a user specified location (where you've write access and good access--definitely not a network share). Post back if using the file handler GUI helps. Stuart ... View more

@Faizan72, On 32-bit Windows, even with LargeAddressAware (LAA) bit set, the maximum memory allocated by the OS is 2GB per user process unless the operating system is configured to use additional space. Believe the suggestion you should make would be to allow a 32-bit operating system to use additional memory (only if sufficient RAM is physically installed) by setting the /3GB flag in the boot.ini configuration file(Win XP Pro), or BCDEdit /set increaseuserva (Win  Vista or 7); but only if the system has more than 3GB of physical RAM. But some care should be taken as the shift into expanded memory ranges can cause stability issues when signed pointers are used. If you are on a 64-bit system, arcmap.exe and other components of the ArcGIS Desktop environment with LAA set will each be allocated a full 4GB of user memory space map.  Unfortunately, 32-bit Python 2.5 (or 2.6 and 2.7 of later ArcGIS versions) is not compiled LAA so geoprocessing can end up memory resource constrained.  Those and similar executables can benefit from toggling the LAA bit using EDITBIN from a Visual Studio load or a simple toggle utility as in this forum posting. Stuart ... View more

Mark, Your models will probably work unchanged, I believe all the component names 2.0 --> 2.1 are the same. So an upgrade install should drop in--although probably cleaner to uninstall, run the ftp site provided ApRegWork cleanup utility and install ArcHydro fresh. Always hard to get usable details about the structural changes without a lot of reverse engineering and debugging. I prefer to just plug in and go, and fix what breaks. The ArcHydro team at ESRI Water Resources group is pretty responsive to technical questions and bug resolution, they just can't provide a lot of direct user support. Stuart p.s.  Just tried to upgrade in place from ArcHydro 2.1.0.22 to 2.1.0.40 and the installer balked at the upgrade wanting me to use add/remove programs to uninstall. Could swear I've done in place before, so maybe a new twist in the installation packages. ... View more