Latest Contributions by V_StuartFoote

‎01-05-2011

Alice, Welcome back, fun and happy holidays? So, before you can get back to scripting the creation of your buffers, you MUST correctly establish the projection and registration details for each PNG image you want to process. So, I'm guessing that your Klic application is the Arcadis Klic viewer and you are dealing with PNG derived from GBKN (Grootschalige Basiskaart Nederland) projected in Dutch RD--EPSG 28992 (worked in ArcGIS as RD New coordinate system) or from other European imagery in WGS84 GCS lat/long. In any case, the projection details you need are likely available as metadata contained in the XML and PDF files accompanying each image. The XML will be well structured and tagged, although probably not GeoXML. But you will need to study it along with any metadata in the PDF for each PNG image, and from the metadata determine where to position each image in real world coordinates. Fortunately, all the images will probably be in the same projection and the needed information will be encoded the same for all the file sets. You just have to figure out how. You may be given an upper left and lower right coordinate set, or an upper left--a pixel size--and a rotation, or even all four corners of the image. If you are allowed to post a sample of the XML and an excerpt from the PDF along with a PNG raster and we may be able to help. But you might post that as a new thread on the Imagery and Raster Data forum to get the right folks helping to tease out the georeference details. Then, once you assemble the registration data for the PNGs, you can either convert them to GeoTIFFs (with a GDAL script) or create an ESRI Grid World file for each. And finally, you can get back to the geoprocessing of a 5m buffer. You will have several options once you are able to access the georeferenced image with ArcGIS. And you can bring each into an ArcMap feature editing session and digitize a centerline of each pipeline. Or, you can return to your gp.RasterToPolygon_conversion(), or perhaps try the RasterToPolyline_conversion() tool. The key will be that by having georeference of each image, you'll then be able to work with accurate measurements in meters rather than just image pixels. One additional scripting option if you have ArcGIS 10 would be the new Image Classification tools for either unsupervised or supervised with training. A more sophisticated way to extract the pipeline detail out of the PNG raster and pass on for RasterToPolygon or RasterToPolyline conversion. If someone at the office has ERDAS or ENVI image analysis suite they really are better tools for doing the same feature extractions. Stuart

‎01-04-2011

I suspect something was just not installed right or cleaned up right after switching between the single use license and the concurrent use license. You can test that. At this point, on the one misconfigured PC, create a new user account. Login to it and launch ArcMap from the new account. If the HEC GeoRAS tool bar shows up the problem was with the user configuration from the old license. The old account can be fixed with a registry edit: (Note: registry edits are immediate and irreversible, so be certain of each change.) Login to the old user account. Open the registry editor (regedit.exe) and navigate down to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\ESRI on the left-hand panel. Right-mouse on ESRI and select Rename. Change the name to OLD_ESRI. Close the registry. Logoff & Log back in. When ArcMap is launched, a new "default" configuration will be created. That should now have the HEC GeoRAS tool bar available. If that works, and there are no "customizations" needed from the old ESRI use configuration, the OLD_ESRI key can be deleted from the registry (leaving just the newly recreated ESRI key). Post back with results or if that is unclear. Stuart

‎01-04-2011

Jeremy, Others may have a better feel for it, but it seems a little ambitious to use UNC ref to the \\vopcc\gis mount while working out syntax and function. To simplify debugging, I would copy or subset the Access MDB to the local file system along with the macro, or at the least Windows map the share. Finally, I think that the args provided to the Popen need to be separated by commas, but still raw. So wouldn't that be: subprocess.Popen([r"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\MSACCESS.EXE", r"\\vopcc\gis\GISOPS\StreetNetwork\Routing.mdb", r"/x WSorderMacro"]) Stuart

‎01-04-2011

Silvia, ITT Visual provided an extension for ArcGIS 9.2 -- ENVI Reader for ArcGIS 9.2. It may still be available for download, but you will need to register a personal account with them. From ArcGIS 9.3 forward, ESRI ArcGIS is able to read ENVI-IDL image format. I'll verify if the 9.2 extension is still available for download and post back. Stuart

‎01-03-2011

OK, since you're on ArcGIS 9.2--things can be a little weird. This note from the ESRI Water Resources folks (in the HECGeoRAS Setup9.2 folder) may help with your install. You'll need to work on it a bit to be sure to get the correct pieces. WARNING HEC-GeoRAS 4.2 Beta Date: 03/16/09 The Apframework has changed. So we had to recompile other applications. Please follow the following steps to install HEC-GeoRAS. (1) Uninstall HEC-GeoRAS, ApFramework and XML Data Exchange applications. (2) Install ApFramework from FTP location: ApFramework/Setup9.2_9.3/Z031009_latest_framework/ApFramework_setup_03102009.EXE (3) Install XML Data Exchange from FTP location: /XMLDataExchange/Setup92_93/Z031009/setup_03102009.EXE (4) Install HEC-GeoRAS from FTP location: /HECGeoRAS/Setup9.2/GeoRASsetup_042109.EXE If you install the current version of HEC-GeoRAS on previous versions of Apframework or XML Data Exchange, HEC-GeoRAS may FAIL to work. You must reinstall applications in the order indicated above. Just verified that all the components in the note are still correct and are still available from the ftp site. So work through the install again. I'd suggest you make it easy on yourself and use an ftp client like FileZilla to navigate the ftp site. Post back if you get stuck. Stuart

‎01-03-2011

Jeremy, You've garbled the path again. And others may know for sure, but wouldn't the raw string be case sensitive? Needs to be as entered as in your 12/30 6:39 post (but with the extra closing "). Stuart

‎12-30-2010

Lyle, If you're game you can try to capture a Microsoft Sysinternals process monitor log of the crash. And when you open it to view, since ArcGIS Explorer is throwing the error you will be able to locate the start of the Debug crash dump (I think it would be DbgHelp.dll) and work backward from there to identify the component crashing. Make it easy on yourself and start the PM log just before ArcGIS Explorer launch and close immediately after the crash. Bump, ESRI -- Mike Branscomb, any comment on use of the Mobile Intel 4 series GPUs? Stuart

‎12-29-2010

Lyle, I am at a loss. You should be good--any other ESRI ArcGIS components installed that may be out of sync? Is your default printer defined and available when launching ArcGIS Explorer? What error messages are you seeing? Anything of note in the system or application event logs? Stuart

‎12-29-2010

Lemuel, Taking the time to configure the Administrator account is worth it in my experience for general usability of Windows 7. Additionally, there are a lot of updates beyond a bare metal installation to bring a system fully up for use. Frankly, ArcGIS Explorer does have a lot going for it beyond some of the alternative commercial or open source projects--a lot depending of the source of the geospatial material you need to work with. What did you end up doing for a Windows 7 Intel GPU driver? Something from Lenovo or forced install of the generic driver from Intel? It is not fun, but you may need to dig into the process log. Download the Microsoft Sysinternals Process Monitor. Running it and capturing the log--then opening it and identifying the faulting calls is tedious. But we've had to do that over on the full ArcGIS Desktop side to run down misbehaving components. Finally, you might solicit support with your issues with ArcGIS Explorer installation from ESRI technical support. Stuart

‎12-29-2010

Lyle, Suggest you use the ArcGIS Explorer "can you run it" to verify your Lenovo R400 laptop is capable of running. Issues often with OpenGL 2.0 compliant support. If all hardware checks out, post back and we can proceed with other avenues. Stuart

‎12-29-2010

Lemuel, Yes the MS Windows Administrator account is conceptually the same as the Root user in Linux/Unix flavors. Of course the underlying file access and process control are handled differently. But it is also the same range of hassles to get a fully active Root user Desktop configured on many of the Linux flavors. ESRI's "can you run it" applet from Systems Requirements Lab has both an ActiveX and a Java flavor--so your choice of browser used (IE, Chrome or Firefox) and the security mode and run permissions can end up garbled during the applet setup. If the applet did load but only gave a partial result, you can remove it from the "Programs and Features" panel of the Control Panel--look for "Systems Requirements Lab" and uninstall. Then try downloading and running it again, perhaps a different browser and watch for the security notification to let it complete an analysis. Which ever way you proceed, the Forum is here to help to get you on track. Stuart

‎12-28-2010

Lemuel, As you've found, there are a number of driver issues for hardware when vendors like Lenovo, or Intel for that matter, choose not to support their systems when new OSs are released. They can make the economic case, but it often leaves owners in limbo when it comes to applications that require the updated feature support of new drivers to be able to continue to run software on the new OS. I don't know for sure, but it seems that if you've gotten your Lenovo/Intel GPU driver in place to support OpenGL 2.0 specifications, you should be able to install and run ArcGIS Explorer under Windows 7. Other than the driver issues for marginally supported hardware, the other major difference between XP and Vista/Windows 7 is UAC--which must be dealt with. I assume that you know to run the installations as Administrator to bypass UAC constraints. That by-the-way is probably the reason the ESRI provided "can you run it" applet did not run. A viable alternative with Windows 7, is to activate the built-in Administrator account and attempt the installation and updates under that log-in. Here is how you'd do that. Run a command prompt as Administrator and enter: net user Administrator /Active:yes Since you are on Windows 7 Home Premium you'll also need to launch the registry editor, e.g. regedit.exe, from the same elevated command prompt. And navigate down the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE key opening each "+" and create new registry keys as needed to end up with: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList Add to it a DWORD value Administrator setting its value to "1" [INDENT][INDENT]Note: Any change to the registry is immediate and irreversible, so be careful and certain of each action.[/INDENT][/INDENT] Log out. You'll now have an Administrator login on the welcome screen that you can use for software installation and management free of UAC restrictions. Note: you should set a password for the newly activated Administrator account from the User Accounts icon on the Control Panel--and don't use this account for your every day use. Finally, give the "can you run it", and removal/install cycle another go from this account and see if you have any better results. Good luck, and post back if any of this was unclear. Stuart

‎12-28-2010

Lemuel, OK, you're making progress! A Windows 7 installation is definitely supported with ArcGIS Explorer build 1500. You don't have any other ESRI products loaded at present, correct? So from the ESRI ArcGIS Explorer support site: [INDENT]http://resources.arcgis.com/content/arcgis-explorer/1500/system-requirements [/INDENT] [INDENT]Supported Operating System [INDENT]Windows 7 Ultimate, Professional, Home Premium (32-bit and 64-bit (EM64T))[/INDENT] Software Requirements [INDENT]Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 or equivalent must be installed prior to installing ArcGIS Explorer. Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) 4.0 Service Pack 2 must be installed prior to installing ArcGIS Explorer. Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 7.0 or 8.0 must be installed prior to installing ArcGIS Explorer.[/INDENT][/INDENT] ESRI provides a link to a "can you run it" test utility. With a new Windows 7 installation, you will have a number of .NET updates to apply via Windows Updates. Additionally, I would suggest going ahead and updating the MSXML4 to SP3 and applying the KB973685 update Work through all those new install Windows 7 updates, AND uninstall the ArcGIS Explorer installation. Clean things up (use a utility like CCleaner-- http:www.piriform.com/ccleaner ) and reboot. Make one more attempt at installing ArcGIS Explorer. Reboot, and then see if ArcGIS Explorer will launch cleanly. Stuart

‎12-27-2010

Yes, chances are that your Windows 7 GPU driver is only meeting OpenGL 1.1 level compliance. Sorry about the link. The Realtech-VR page is PHP and layout a little confusing to get to the right download. But, here is the direct link to the Windows version of their utility. [INDENT]ftp://ftp2.realtech-vr.com/realtechv/pub/glview334.exe[/INDENT] The utility will help you verify what driver you have for both OpenGL and ActiveX, and what level of compatibility you have with each. It also will provide links to the GPU manufacturers driver site which you'll have to download and install. Post back if you have any questions. Stuart

‎12-26-2010

Verify that your Widnows 7 OpenGL driver is at least version 1.3 capable, but preferably OpenGL 2.0 Use this tool: [INDENT]http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/download.html[/INDENT] You will probably find that the default OpenGL drivers installed with Windows 7 is not the most functional for your GPU. With updated drivers from the video GPU manufacturer you may then be OK. It may take a little to get it all sorted. Unfortunately, if you can't get to at least OpenGL 1.3 in Windows 7, you will need to replace the video card or move back to XP with OpenGL support on the same hardware. Good luck. Stuart

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