Latest Contributions by DEWright_CA

Bruce Harold‌ why would ESRI decide to disable/limit Data-Interop reading GeoJSON? I know Full FME does this without question; so this was a ESRI choice. I'm just curious of that thought process...  ... View more

I would be interested to hear how this has been addressed? As far as I know all I have been told is "pay for it now". ... View more

No this is not a "Correct Answer" and this has not been addressed offline; this is a question to the users about their opinions. ... View more

This had previously been included as a component of the EEAP; but I was just informed this has now been pulled. So this gives on less reason to pay a hefty annual cost to ESRI. ... View more

I export them as logical blocks; export a given Zipcode, County, State, Watershed etc... ... View more

If you are selecting a point based on the map; what are you only doing a centroid of a 1k Poly? The full calculated location should be able to be returned. ... View more

Or shift the function of assigning the license to my.esri.com to keep all that kind of administration function together? ... View more

I find wrapping a Try/Catch deeper sometimes will get me more detail when the larger scale task is losing the context. In your case, try wrapping your: with arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(tableName,field) as updateRows: loop; to see if you might have something that is escaping the SQL process. ... View more

I would add to this to also automatically send the Error Dump files from Services to ESRI Support. I have written jobs to do that monthly; but that being a core function would be a huge step forward. ... View more

It depends on your architecture. Is your server running ArcGIS Server? If so you can publish your processes as a GeoProcessing Tool; and the use another tool to schedule and call the Rest-Endpoint to launch the service. We are using a batch-manager called JAMS (from MVPSI) that is very powerful for doing a variety of job management tasks. It is pricey but; it addresses a number of business needs.In other places we have schedules that run from FME Server. There are a number of other tools to do basic job execution (CRON etc) that can meet your needs; you just really need to target which fits you task. ... View more

Pro is fully multi-threaded and 64bit aware; ArcGIS Desktop (ArcCatalog/ArcMap) is 32bit and not multi-threaded aware; but you are able to fake it really well using python/georprocessing tools. ... View more

Yes, but for me a lot of my jobs & processes we have updated to be multi-threaded or concurrently processing. So the newer machines which are not a huge upgrade from the ones I had bought 5 years about (shift from Dual 8 Cores with hyper-threading) just allows me to spin up more blocks of processing. So a job that would run in 30 hours is running in just under 20; so that is a improvement but with each annual & quarter process I run my data increases by 10%-15%. So in the end its just having good consistent expectations; and the Xeons give that; versus say the I7 or I9 which can do great stuff but aren't designed for workstation class processing. ... View more

This is actually the config I have right now; but with Dual-Xeons as a cluster of 3 machines. Very nice platform. ... View more

Working in a Engineering firm; you might be using more than just Arc on the machine; so going with the Xeon would be my recommendation (former Site/Civil Designer in AutoCAD & Microstation). There are plenty of places where the higher cache capacity and higher command-sets are used in software. ... View more