Latest Contributions by MDB_GIS

I frequently find myself cycling between different imagery layers for the same location. This means constantly having to cut imagery layers on/off or just suffer the consequences of increased draw time due to all the active rasters. It would be nice if there was an alternative type of group layer that would only allow one item within that group to be active at a time. For instance, you have a group of imagery for 2021, 2022, and 2023. You have 2022 active. You enable 2023, and the 2022 layer automatically cuts itself off.  Would be a very helpful quality of life option to have that I could see myself using in many different circumstances.  ... View more

I only have a small organization to worry about with ~ 200 items or so between all users but I'm still fed up with how cluttered our AGOL organization feels. The lack of subfolders is just baffling to me. I'm sure there is probably a reason it hasn't been implemented, but having only one folder level to work with is just awful. I have one dashboard that is a combination of 5 other dashboards. Trying to remember which one I need to edit every time is just annoying. I've started including a prefix of "1 - " on the main one and "2 - " on the sub-dashboards, but if I had additional folders, I could group the sub-dashboards together and leave the primary one up one level, leaving only one option to work with, but just not possible with the current implementation. Does anyone have any tips for better organizing your AGOL data? Any good white pages on effective strategies for cleaning up your org's data? ... View more

We currently have an enterprise database that contains nothing but old raster data. This setup predates my time here but I've kept it going because I haven't had a compelling reason to change it. The mosaic datasets are pretty large (most are over 1k high resolution images).  I'm examining our current practices and looking for potential ways to increase efficiency and this got me to wondering if there is a reason to have it in an eGDB at all? Is there a performance impact on keeping those rasters in an eGDB? The rasters are never edited aside from when they are created. So I'm not sure what benefit there is to it being in an eGDB vs. a regular file geodatabase.  Compounding on that, I'm wondering if it wouldn't be a good idea to explore the option of using a tiled service to share the imagery out to the organization.  How are you guys handling your large raster datasets these days? ... View more

In the image below, parcels 25B, 15B, and 14B (Selected) had a boundary that was just completely incorrect. Not sure where it came from, to be honest, because I have been unable to find a  We got a new plat in for surrounding parcels (the red ones with COGO) so I drew those in. Since the boundary was so wildly inaccurate I just figured that I would clip that area out, rather than aligning it since there were far too few points to do so and it was too far away to make the align features point feasible.  After doing the clip, however, the stated area and the area unit of those three parcels was nulled out. Those two fields were set to <Null> for some reason and I can't figure out why. Is this an expected behavior? I've attached a short gif that showcases the issue. Please let me know if I am missing something. Thank you!   ... View more