Latest Contributions by forestknutsen1

‎10-28-2016

Ah, I used to be a CAD guy, almost ten years ago now. But why not just turn on the labels for the property and not deal with the selection part? Maybe a screenshot if it is not confidential...

‎10-28-2016

I am wondering how to create a correct quarter section when the section is not "full." For example: Sometime when there is a new township line the section is truncated. when I make a quarter section should it be as below with the NE quarter lager then the NW quarter. Or should the quarter sections be uniform, i.e. the dividing line is at the midpoints of the section lines?

‎10-28-2016

I am wondering why this is important to you... You can get started with labeling on some of the below links. Essential labeling concepts—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop Essential annotation and graphic text concepts—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

‎10-14-2016

Every time I run across the lack of gradient color to transparent functionality I become irritated. It forces one to do a time consuming work around in Arc or export it to Photoshop (or the like) for the final bit of cartography. Also when making a buffer gradient please add a an option to select a linear distance instead of just a % of the shape. That why smaller and larger polygons can have the same symbology with in a feature class.

‎10-12-2016

Thanks everyone for the great feedback! So, I went with this solution in the end. Only works for my quarter section special case. But maybe someone will find it useful. import arcpy points = r"xxxx" center = r"xxxx" csv_path = r"xxxx" dec_field = "DESCRIPTION" csv = open(csv_path, "w") search = arcpy.SearchCursor(points) points_list = [] for row in search: points_list.append((row.getValue(dec_field), row.getValue("POINT_X"), row.getValue("POINT_Y"))) del search search = arcpy.SearchCursor(center) center_list = [] for row in search: center_list.append((row.getValue(dec_field), row.getValue("POINT_X"), row.getValue("POINT_Y"))) del search k = 0 order_list = [] order_center = None for dxy_p in points_list: k += 1 order_list.append(dxy_p) if k == 4: # find center point for dxy_c in center_list: if dxy_c[0] == order_list[0][0]: order_center = dxy_c break for dxy_o in order_list: if dxy_o[1] < order_center[1] and dxy_o[2] < order_center[2]: csv.write(dxy_o[0] + ", " + str(dxy_o[1]) + ", " + str(dxy_o[2]) + ", " + "1\n") if dxy_o[1] < order_center[1] and dxy_o[2] > order_center[2]: csv.write(dxy_o[0] + ", " + str(dxy_o[1]) + ", " + str(dxy_o[2]) + ", " + "2\n") if dxy_o[1] > order_center[1] and dxy_o[2] > order_center[2]: csv.write(dxy_o[0] + ", " + str(dxy_o[1]) + ", " + str(dxy_o[2]) + ", " + "3\n") if dxy_o[1] > order_center[1] and dxy_o[2] < order_center[2]: csv.write(dxy_o[0] + ", " + str(dxy_o[1]) + ", " + str(dxy_o[2]) + ", " + "4\n") k = 0 order_list = [] dxy_c = None csv.close()‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

‎10-12-2016

Good to know thanks Joshua. The end product for me is a table.

‎10-12-2016

One way to do this would be a spatial join. First get some data for counties Cartographic Boundary Shapefiles - Counties - Geography - U.S. Census Bureau Add your sheet to ArcGIS and make points from lat long How To: Import XY data tables to ArcMap and convert the data to a shapefile Use Spatial Join—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop to add the county info to the points Done

‎10-12-2016

Thanks for the feedback. No, it is a need. Because it is going to a spatial application that is not so smart. I think your idea would work well. I am thinking one could also do something like this (with the logic tests in the box): But I think I will have to script the solution. Sometimes I run to python as a first solution when there is a workflow that is out of the box that will do the same thing only faster...

‎10-12-2016

Is there a fast way to order points clockwise? I only want the corner vertices. I would like the first point to be in the SW corner of the quarter section or at least in a consistent location....

‎10-04-2016

Christian Wells wrote: Schema locks should only be managed through the ArcGIS clients. That, in a nutshell, is what our technical lead said. But it does not work on our system. Even if the ArcCatalog approach was working as expected it would still be inefficient. Sometimes I will have 200 locks that I need to kill in order to update a database. Selecting them by hand off the lock table would be tiresome and prone to error. What are the other options? SDE command line? arcpy? Christian Wells wrote: Are they being orphaned? No, they are not being orphaned.

‎10-03-2016

I am wondering how people are deleting schema locks? We are on oracle 11g and SDE 10.1. I have been using a sql delete query run from TOAD to do it for users that have read only connections...

‎09-29-2016

What about saving the mxd with arcpy? One would think that the call to arcpy.RefreshActiveView() would do it, but... You could also add the below just to make it a little safer... if lyr.supports("DEFINITIONQUERY"):

‎09-20-2016

Are you using sde? If so what about using a database tool (we use TOAD) and just modify the table outside of Arc. It is safe as long as your tables are not versioned or if they have no add/delete tables. Or you could use arcpy with ArcSDESQLExecute and do the same thing.

‎08-02-2016

One cannot have a WMS running off of a tile cache. "WMS request information over GetCapabilities request we need to have the original data to be queried for information." The suggestion is to server the original data and eat the performance loss...

‎07-28-2016

We have 5 of them. 4 are ortho imagery and 1 is a hydro base layer made from NHD vector data. They are compact tile caches made on arc 10.3.1 desktop with the Manage Tile Cache tool: After the caches were made we copied them to a local drive on the server (trying to get the best performance out of them). Then we added the 4 ortho ones to a mxd and published. The hydro was added to it's own mxd and published. I also created a test service from one of the ortho caches today with the same result. Lastly, yesterday I discovered that they are not printing in our Geocortex site, but are displaying fine. Not sure if this is a related problem.

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