Latest Contributions by ChadKopplin

Are your SID images set as lossless or just compressed, because I believe there was something previously about SID's where they had to be lossless in order to use them in a process. ... View more

Within each division we have multiple programs, so we had to work with those programs to see what attributes and layers they work with and would need to produce because they are the authority for that data.  Then we took that information and applied it to the geodatabase to include all of their data.  As examples Groundwater Vulnerability was produced by our groundwater section of the Water Quality Division, and the Coal Mine Permit boundary's were produced by the coal section of our Land Quality Division.  We had to work with those programs to find out what attributes were important to show in the map services that we were opening to the public.  Anything that would assist the public with looking through the permit to access the information that they need.  In some cases that permit is electronic in others it is a large volume on shelf or in a filing cabinet. ... View more

Matt, I work for a State Agency with seven different divisions.  Yes there are differences among agency's, but I can see some similarities especially since it sounds like many agency's may be utilizing a shared ArcGIS Server.  A few things to think about will the central GIS Server be shared for the the production/authoritative data for agency's?  If yes, then you may want to think about replication of the agency data, so, that only the data that the agency's want to be shared will be on the central server.  Along with this is security, will you use Windows based security, ArcGIS and server based security, or map service based security or a combination.  What data will be utilized by multiply agency's and what data will only be used by certain agency's.  Does each agency's computers and does the server hardware meet the minimum requirements for the ArcGIS software.  What will be the server load?  Will the data only be used by the agency's internally or will the agency's be opening the data to the web?  If to the web then a web adaptor will need to be set up and the following thread lists the firewall ports that need to be open in order to use the server internally and externallyFirewall ports needed to connect to SDE 10.2 + .  If you will be opening up services to the web will one server meet the load on the server, by default server will open 2 SOC accounts for each map service, each one holds ~64mb/SOC (of RAM).  So, based on the number of map services that you are serving multiply those by 128 mbs this will tell you the amount of available RAM that your server will have available to process and open the services, this will increase with the amount of users you have hitting those services at any given time.  This will let you know if the server is able to server the load or expected load.  I have more information from our planning over the past 8 yrs, I will try to find it and send it to you. ... View more

I use this method when I display large amounts of parcels as well.  Remember you have to use the Maplex Labeling Engine to use these tools.  Also, this will slow down your labeling and display, because of the crunching to fit the labels. ... View more

Did you try uninstalling and reinstalling the app's?  This may help settle the issues down.  It could have been a bad install.  Also, from the web site are you using iOS 5.0 or later.  ArcGIS on the App Store ... View more

It will save back to the layer file that you have in the map service, it would be an SDE feature class.  Also, remember this service needs to be a feature service in order to edit.  Good luck. ... View more

You should be able to, but you would have to have your data in a feature service for editing, because you could publish the  Add XY Coordinates tool in ArcToolBox>Data Management Tools>Features> Add XY Coordinates as a geoprocessing service in order to add the coordinate fields, this tool adds the fields and calculates their values. ... View more

I look forward to hearing what you learn from Prof. Tarboton, I was also curious about your resolution and cell size.  Thank you. ... View more

Yes, he does need the native client that comes along with the 10.3 install, but he would not be able to connect to SDE at all without the client installed as well. ... View more

That is really cool, thank you for sharing. ... View more

In your GPS unit are you should be able to perform an offset of your waypoint.  Also, I did find this tool, maybe it could help, because if you can use a distance tool to create this line then you could convert the line to points and be left with your survey points. ArcGIS Desktop Help 9.2 - Creating lines with the Offset Line window ... View more

Once you have the files in their original projections, you can also set the dataframe projection to the projection of your choice and the files will be reprojected on the file, to the new projection.  Then you can export the data and save them with the dataframe projection.  I generally do this for the vector data versus the raster data. ... View more

John, the USGS moved their NED data into the 3DEP program, you can expand the 3DEP category from here to select the product that you want. TNM Download This is the National Map download location. Here is the National Map launch page: The National Map ... View more

If you select each row individually in the table the corresponding cells with that row will be highlighted, then you will know the cells that correspond with the invisible area, is a new attribute field added for each iteration? ... View more

Thank you for sharing, because one of the items that I have seen the most with new users that I work with in my office is that they will try to load a spreadsheet or they have loaded the spreadsheet and all ready created a shapefile and they will have added special characters to the field names.  Generally, it is OK for the creating of the shapefile, but the problem arises when they try to run a geoprocess.  Many of the tools still do not allow special or reserved characters.  Glad you were able to find the problem, and share the answer with everyone. ... View more