Latest Contributions by DanPatterson

Exactly! Time to run a test with both types and see if your people can "see" any difference in the images, then weigh the other factors.  If they "look" the same, then appearance isn't a factor and you can place importance on things like the need for transparency, etc ... View more

Just Google " png vs jpeg which is better " depends on what you need ... View more

Tutorial: Creating a cached image service—Documentation | Documentation for ArcGIS Enterprise  Note: If the source of your image service is a mosaic dataset, it is important that you use WGS 1984 Web Mercator (Auxiliary Sphere) as its coordinate system, which is the same coordinate system used by ArcGIS Online, Google Maps, and Bing Maps. which later state If you create a mosaic dataset in a different projection then the one you need to use for caching, you should create a referenced mosaic dataset from the mosaic dataset in the projection you need. This is because you can't change the projection of a mosaic dataset. ... View more

24004: MIXED tile format recommended to cache a map with raster layers—Documentation (10.3 and 10.3.1) | ArcGIS Enterp…  use PNG of one of the bit depths if you need transparency and png doesn't sacrifice image quality ... View more

Are you following this? Steps to get ArcGIS Server up and running—ArcGIS Server (Windows) Installation Guide | Documentation for ArcGIS Enterpri…  Why not contact your regional office to get help and confirmation to your questions.  They would most likely be able to support better with reference to your specific locale ... View more

"COB100{}".format(!objectid!) # --- or f"COB100{!objectid!}"‍‍‍‍‍ For more current format string operations with 2 variants ... View more

ArcGIS API for Python | ArcGIS for Developers  API Reference for the ArcGIS API for Python — arcgis 1.8.2 documentation  and to track issues GitHub - Esri/arcgis-python-api: Documentation and samples for ArcGIS API for Python  ... View more

Control access in ArcGIS Server—ArcGIS Server | Documentation for ArcGIS Enterprise  Web-tier authentication—ArcGIS Server | Documentation for ArcGIS Enterprise  This stuff? it is on different help topics.  Pick according to your version ... View more

GPU is supported by the Spatial Analyst for a limited number of functions GPU processing with Spatial Analyst—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation  other links there may be of help CUDA GPUs | NVIDIA Developer  As well as graphics adapter resources Graphics adapter resources—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation  then there are pages directly linked to citrix which suggests the same as for Pro Citrix on-premises VDI Overview—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation  but... NVIDIA has some suggestions Virtual GPU & VDI Solutions | NVIDIA  In short, get something you can live with for a few years within the hardware limitations required ... View more

looks like there is no coordinate system.  If you add it to a map without a basemap, does it show up? or check its properties ... View more

Why not make things easier and get the geometry objects for both.  Then you don't have to make featurelayers etc etc As an example, a point geometry being tested against a polygon You can project geometry if needed.  To find out more, just do a 'dir' on the objects dir(pnt) ['JSON', 'WKB', 'WKT', ... snip... , '_fromGeoJson', '_go', '_passthrough', '_repr_svg_', 'angleAndDistanceTo', 'area', 'boundary', 'buffer', 'centroid', 'clip', 'contains', 'convexHull', 'crosses', 'cut', 'densify', 'difference', 'disjoint', 'distanceTo', 'equals', 'extent', 'firstPoint', 'generalize', 'getArea', 'getGeohash', 'getLength', 'getPart', 'hasCurves', 'hullRectangle', 'intersect', 'isMultipart', 'labelPoint', 'lastPoint', 'length', 'length3D', 'measureOnLine', 'overlaps', 'partCount', 'pointCount', 'pointFromAngleAndDistance', 'positionAlongLine', 'projectAs', 'queryPointAndDistance', 'segmentAlongLine', 'snapToLine', 'spatialReference', 'symmetricDifference', 'toCoordString', 'touches', 'trueCentroid', 'type', 'union', 'within'] # ---- ditto dir(poly) ['JSON', 'WKB', 'WKT', '__add__',... snip ..., 'within'] # ---- pnt.within(poly) # ---- point in polygon checks ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ ... View more

BUG-000129978: In Arcpy Metadata, the metadata stays empty (NULL) o..  BUG-000129839: Unable to access or edit the metadata in ArcGIS Pro ..  could be the issue ... View more

Mark Senne‌ could you format your code to provide proper indentation and line numbers /blogs/dan_patterson/2016/08/14/script-formatting  ... View more

That is what modelbuilder is for.... chain your steps together and set model parameters as you go.   ... View more