Latest Contributions by EricEagle

I have a set of labels in an ArcGIS Pro map.  I remember in ArcMap you could create the annotations in the MXD and set the reference scale to 0, which would give you dynamic labels at any map scale. I'm struggling to figure out how to obtain the same result in Pro.  I've got the Convert Labels to Annotation tool which doesn't seem to do dynamic layers, only offering me a pulldown menu of fixed conversion scales. Can someone tell me how to create annotations, which I can publish via service, that display at a constant page/screen dimension? ... View more

This one is really a no-brainer.  A layer package is a really efficient way to bundle up content and symbology since it's a FGDB under the hood.  I'm in a community that depends far too heavily on KML to pass content around, and this would help us start to get off the crack by providing a nice, simple, no-fuss way to pass around symbolized content. Scene layer packages are already supported in Earth - bring regular layer package support please! ... View more

I've got a bunch of OpenStreetMap content that I'm trying to label (ArcGIS Pro 2.2.4) based on whether content is found in the other_tags field.  Here's what I'm trying to do in the expression editor (Python): def FindLabel ( [other_tags] ):     import re     ls = [other_tags]     slabel = re.search('"name:en"=>"(.*?)","', ls)     return slabel.group(1)‍‍‍‍‍ It says "NameError: name 'FindLabel' is not defined Which is weird because if I remove the "," from the regex operation and do this: def FindLabel ( [other_tags] ):     import re     ls = [other_tags]     slabel = re.search('"name:en"=>"(.*?)"', ls)     return slabel.group(1) ‍‍‍‍‍ it renders as valid, although it prints out everything beyond the "name:en"=>" string. I have also tried this, which validates but returns nothing: def FindLabel ( [other_tags] ):     ss = [other_tags]     ls = ss[ss.find('"name:en"=>"')+1:ss.find('"')]     return ls‍‍‍‍ Here is a bit of the sort of substring someone could expect to find in OSM's other_tags: "int_name"=>"Dubai","is_in:continent"=>"Asia","is_in:country_code"=>"AE","name:en"=>"Dubai","population"=>"1984000"....‍ Can anyone help me to get this label expression working? ... View more

Hi, I would like to enable a KML service on a service I'm publishing from Pro (2.2). Content is all vector.  Here's what I'm doing.  I publish it as both a Map and Feature service.  However my end customer primarily needs KML. So, I don't see KML as an option in the service creation screen in 2.2.  Ok, so I go to the Server Manager that hosts services for my Portal instance (jeez this is already getting so confusing), and I click on the Capabilities there.  No KML.  Huh? So I go to ArcGIS Desktop 10.6.1 and connect with admin credentials to my AGS instance, stop the service, examine its properties and lo and behold there is a KML checkbox.  I check it and leave defaults enabled.  I hit OK, and here's what I get: ERROR: 'AGSMembershipProviderWrapper' is not a valid extension type for 'MapServer'. How do I publish from ArcGIS Pro and create a KML network link?  Since KML has long been an OGC standard I would assume this should not take moving heaven and earth to do, and I'm probably missing something very simple. ... View more

As far as I'm aware the arcpy.JSONToFeatures_conversion utility only takes a flat file, e.g., your-json-file.json sitting in a directory.   I would like to suggest that this utility provide support for strings embedded right in one's script instead of having to summon os and mess with paths.  So basically instead of:   import arcpy import os file = your_file.json path = r"C:\Temp" json_file = os.path.join(path, file) arcpy.JSONToFeatures(json_fileaaaaahhhhh just makes my head hurt writing it)     it should be like this:   import arcpy json = { bunch of json/geojson } arcpy.JSONToFeatures(json, output)     Currently, the second approach throws a series of GP errors as it does not appear the tool is set up to handle strings but only files. ... View more

ArcGIS Pro 2.2 is stuck on startup at the Initializing... splash screen.  I have let it sit there for 20 minutes before killing the process.  It will no longer open at all. Here's what I've tried. - Uninstalling ArcGIS Pro. - Deleting all ArcGIS Pro-related directories under my user profile. - Reinstalling ArcGIS Pro. The problem continues. My workstation is capable.  Intel Xeon, 3.4ghz, 24 cores.  128GB RAM.  Nvidia Quadro K5200.  Windows 10. ArcGIS Pro is installed to C:\ArcGIS\Pro in order to give me the write access I need to install Python libraries and modify conda settings.  Installing to the default \Program Files\ is not an option for it is not writable by policy. (Incidentally, I found that you can't install the offline help if you've installed Pro to a non-standard location... thanks Esri) Short of getting a local admin to log me on, and combing through the entire flippin registry to delete every single trace of ArcGIS Pro, does anyone have any suggestions of things I could try? ... View more

I have a lot of geopositioned 3D content in KML.  This is stuff created in SketchUp. I would like to publish this content as local scenes via my Portal.  However, ArcGIS Pro (2.2) says "Layer's data source is not supported." (24078 error) Sigh.  Fair enough, but what is the conversion workflow?  Obviously I am not going to burn thousands of manhours recreating high-precision 3D content in ArcGIS Pro from scratch. I am not married to the KML format, but SketchUp will invariably be used to create the models.  So at a minimum, I will need to be able to import a .dae (collada) model even if I have to texture it in ArcGIS Pro. ... View more