Latest Contributions by LucasDanzinger

We don't have any out of the box tools that make cartograms in ArcGIS Desktop, but if you search for cartograms on ArcScripts, there are a few user submitted solutions. ... View more

Are there spaces or special characters in the field names of the Excel table? ... View more

Usually if your desired field does not show up in display XY Data, it is coming in with the wrong data type- it needs to be a number in order to use and not a text string. What ArcMap does to enforce data types is scan the first 8 rows and determine if it should be a text string or a number (double). Something must be tripping it up. To check, add your data in, open the attribute table, right click the field header and select properties. What is the data type? If it is string, then something is likely causing ArcMap to read it as a string instead of a number. Go back into ArcMap and be sure that the first 8 rows have no characters that could make it show up as a text string. I'd also review this help article. It's really important that your field headers have no special characters or spaces as well. This can really mess with Excel tables. ... View more

The only way I know how to create one would be to check out your data using the ArcPad Data Manager. It's possible there is another way, but this is the only time I have come across an APL. ... View more

Do you have the data of all roads? Seeing that you have the data with z values, you should be able to use Feature Vertices to Points. This will get you points from your lines and you can then Add XY Coordinates. If your data are z enabled, you should be good to go. Otherwise, you could use an elevation raster and the Extract Values to Points tool. ... View more

Would Aerial and Underground be two separate fields? Or alternatively, it this all under one field, such as "Type" with values of "Aerial" and "Underground" underneath it? ... View more

I recommend you download and use a local locator from the ESRI Data and Maps DVD. You can get this at your customer care portal (customers.esri.com) under Software Downloads. There are some limitations with the free ArcGIS Online locators for batch geocoding. They are really meant more for geolocating with the geocoding toolbar or the Find tool, and not for batch geocoding jobs. Depending on the load the servers are getting, it could fail out for batch geocoding jobs, as they weren't really designed for this purpose. I recommend you either create your own Address Locator or download the Data and Maps DVD, which has several locators based of street map data. This will be a more reliable workflow for large jobs, such as what you describe. ... View more

What exactly do you mean by a sub layer for an attribute? Maybe an example would help. -Luke ... View more

So the layers don't show up at all? Could you upload the .ai and .pdf to here? Also a jpg for reference of what it should look like would help. ... View more

Is this still happening? How many records are you trying to geocode with the online services? ... View more

Hi Matt, I'd use the Raster to Geodatabase tool for that. As far as some of them having no data, what exactly do you mean by that? Are they all black? I'd first try running Calculate Statistics if this is the case. Luke ... View more

I think the Feature Class to Geodatabase tool should do what you want. It is the equivalent of right clicking a geodatabase and selecting import multiple. ... View more

I would just save the old layer as a layer file (.lyr). To do this, open the map where the layer with the symbology you want to save is. Right click the layer in the table of contents and select Save as Layer File. Then, when you click import, you can just navigate to the location of your .lyr file. ... View more

Hi Jennifer, It sounds like you want to do a Table Join, but I don't believe this is possible out of the box with ArcGIS Explorer. You can do this in ArcGIS Desktop. It also looks like there may be some options to do this with the ArcGIS Explorer Desktop SDK. There are a few other threads relating to this question. Luke ... View more