Latest Contributions by MDB_GIS

‎09-18-2020

Here is an example of what I'm looking to do. The part I am really struggling with is how to associate the streets to the correct location in the grid. I'm not sure how to create the grid itself, and further more, I'm not sure how to create the border letters and numbers for the grid. I have done something similar before using this tool in ArcMap, however I can't find the equivalent function in ArcGIS Pro. I appreciate any help!

‎09-01-2020

Steve Lynch‌ Dan Patterson‌ Thank you both for your help. I ended up coming across another workflow that really helped out with producing a smoother line. I took the original DEM and ran it through the 'Focal Statistics' tool. This smoothed out the DEM by averaging the cell values together in a user defined neighborhood (I used 3x3). I then ran the contour tool on that .That workflow is documented here. Not only did that eliminate over 900k small polygons, but it also nicely smoothed out the line without giving up too much accuracy. For the few "islands" that remained, I did as you guys suggested and deleted anything that had a length of less than 1 meter. I am very happy with the end results! The original contours are in pink and the smoothed contours are in blue!

‎08-31-2020

I didn't populate that parameter simply because I had no clue how many vertices the output would have. My main issue isn't with the number of vertices, but rather the "jaggedness" of the lines. I would prefer it if I could just remove some of the extraneous vertices that have a minimal impact on the overall shape of the line. In regards to the islands, I actually did this for anything less than one foot, but I wasn't sure how to establish a good cutoff point. On a side note, I think you have commented on every single post I have put up in the last year. You are the man. Thank you for being so willing to help out and share your wealth of information! I also see your comments and advice on many old geonet threads that I come across when searching. You are a true cornerstone for the community, and I'd like to thank you for all the help that you provide!

‎08-31-2020

I used a DEM to create 2 ft contours for my county. That process worked great, however I received a warning message telling me that some features had over one million vertices. Upon looking at the created contours, I can definitely see that each feature has a very large number of vertices. Additionally, it also captured tons of very small "islands" of high or low elevation. Example below: I circled a few examples of some of these tiny areas of elevation that are insignificant enough to be removed. Is there a good way to simplify the lines without giving up a ton of accuracy and to also remove small islands of elevation?

‎08-10-2020

I have tried that as well. I created a new geodatabase named TEST and ran it again, and got the same message. I have come across several other posts mentioning this problem and they state that if the LAS data is in a GCS (ours is) that this could happen. The suggested action was to reproject the LAS dataset to a local projected coordinate system. Well.. I can't figure out how to reproject it. The only ESRI tool I have come across that mentions reprojecting LiDAR data is the Extract LAS tool, and, of course we don't have the required license for it. It requires 3d Analyst and we only have Spatial Analyst.

‎08-10-2020

I am trying to use some old LiDAR data the create a raster which I will then use to create contours for our county. Another hurdle I have to clear is that the LiDAR data is in meters, but I'm looking to create contours in feet. Not really sure how to make that conversion either. Here is the geoprocessing results window: I will admit that I have not used LiDAR or raster data very much, so it is very possible that I could just be doing something wrong or using a wrong setting. Any help is greatly appreciated! Best, Matt

‎08-05-2020

There are 47 feature datasets and each one contains between 1 and 20 feature classes, average being around 10 if I had to guess.

‎08-05-2020

I do hope this can get resolved. We have a ton of data on our network that needs to be accessible. It's so strange that ArcMap has no issues with this. I've found Pro to be far more optimized and faster in almost every single aspect except for working within catalog.

‎08-05-2020

Mark, Yes. I am using ArcGIS Pro 2.6

‎08-04-2020

I know this is many years after the initial post, but holy cow, thank you so much for this. Using this, I was able to automate renaming 500+ feature classes.

‎08-04-2020

I recently created a topo dataset for our county that is broken up into around 300 tiles. All of our data is stored on a network drive because those are backed up daily and also because we have multiple users that may need to access that data. In the process of creating that data, I used feature class to feature class GP tool several times and each time it took a substantial amount of time to complete. Furthermore, when I was finally finished creating the database, I opened a map and attempted to start adding in some of the layers to arcGIS Pro, it took what felt like an eternity for the feature datasets in the file geodatabase to open. I timed it and on average, it took ~20 seconds for the feature datasets to open and display the data. When I copied the folder to my local drive and tried the same operations, it was a night and day difference. The feature class to feature class GP tool was substantially faster and opening the feature datasets was near instant. Has anyone else experienced this issue and resolved it? Long term storage of data locally is simply not an option for me. Furthermore, this issue does not occur in ArcMap. It is specific to Pro. I would greatly appreciate any advice that you may have!

‎08-03-2020

Glad to hear it! I hope to see it soon! This is pretty much the only thing Pro is missing from my daily workflows. Once COGO polygons are in, I will probably never have to open arcMap again.

‎07-31-2020

You wouldn't happen to have a link to that thread, do you? I'd like to follow it. I looked before I posted this topic but couldn't find it. Parcel maintenance is literally the only workflow I have not moved to pro. I would really like to do so, but I am not willing to switch to the parcel fabric yet for a number of reasons. It's a shame that something as silly as this will force us to continue using ArcMap.

‎07-31-2020

If so, this is a pretty drastic design flaw in my opinion. I am the GIS Admin at my org and I have migrated to Pro. I have ten other GIS users that have yet to make that transition to ArcGIS Pro, however. I am attempting to recreate my old attribute assistant workflows from ArcMap in Pro. I was able to do so but immediately noticed that when I opened an old map from ArcMap, that the data source was broken. When I attempted to point it to the feature class, nothing happened. The little red exclamation point remained. Is this intentional or am I seriously being forced to use ArcMap until I can convince 10 people who have been using ArcMap for 10+ years to upgrade? They are extremely unlikely to upgrade, so it seems like my hands are tied unless I just force them to make the upgrade. I would prefer not to force anyone to do anything. I've been making the case for users to switch and believe they will do so when they see fit. Not to mention transitioning and training 10 new users of ArcGIS Pro would be a pretty substantial time sink for me.

‎07-30-2020

Looking to follow up on this. Is this still in the product plan?

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