Latest Contributions by ShellyGill2

I'm afraid queries on imported data is not currently supported, but we hope to add this in a future release. You can always add this suggestion at http://ideas.arcgis.com where other users can vote on its importance. ... View more

Hi Michelle - one thing you can check is that there's no empty fields within your data (e.g. one row is missing some data) - I think I had problems importing data like that. Otherwise, if you just post your CSV file here we can check it out for you (you can email directly if you dont want to post the data publically - sgill at esri.com). ... View more

The route, when viewed on the GPS or in MapSource, conforms to the road network.  However, when I import (via GPX) to ArcGIS Explorer Online, the route simply becomes straight lines between the various waypoints (ie. the route ingnores the road network). Waypoints only store point information, and I'd assume that the product you're using has a road network stored as lines (as vectors, not as an image) and has a setting that automatically snaps lines in between waypoints to the lines. There's no way to do that in Explorer Online. Can you export a GPX file that has the lines stored as tracks or routes? If you look in your GPX file in a text editor, you'll be able to see what type of information it contains: a waypoint would look something like:   <wpt lat="56.810440" lon="-5.071457">     <time>2005-08-25T05:27:25Z</time>     <name>01PK0E</name>   </wpt> A track would import to Explorer Online as a line - in the GPX file it would look something like:   <trk>     <name>Name of the line</name>     <trkseg>       <trkpt lat="55.938456" lon="-4.310181">         <ele>60.688477</ele>       </trkpt>       <trkpt lat="55.938628" lon="-4.310439">         <ele>47.710815</ele>       </trkpt>      < moretrkpts> ... I sometimes use a website called MapMyRun to create and export GPX files - they contain track information. Maybe you can use this or a similar site to get what you need, if you cant find a way to export the road line information from your existing product? ... View more

The error message is very misleading here. You have latitude and longitude data in the file (fields lat and log), but the headings are the wrong way round. If you import, and choose to import the 'Address' field as Text, the 'Lat' field as Location -> Longitude, and the 'Log' field as Location -> Latitude, then the import works just fine, using those coordinates. ... View more

My data is on a GIS Server, but I haven't figured out how to make it work yet If you're having problems getting a time-enabled service published, this is a nice blog post that takes you through some steps in ArcMap: http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/arcgisserver/archive/2011/07/20/Visualizing-time_2D00_aware-data-in-a-web-map.aspx If you publish the map with the time-enabled layer, then I think the service should be time-enabled, according to the help at http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisserver/10.0/help/arcgis_server_dotnet_help/index.html#/Serving_time_aware_layers/009300000050000000/ (check by looking at the rest endpoint for the Time Info section as described in the blog post) - it is this bit that's not working for you? ... View more

If you add a time-enabled service to ArcGIS Explorer Online, for example http://sampleserver3.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Hurricanes/NOAA_Tracks_1851_2007/MapServer, then the time slider will be shown automatically in your map. However I'm afraid the time slider doesnt work on imported layers currently - the dates are treated as an attribute field; this is like adding a map service that has date attributes, but it not actually time-enabled. I think this is a good enhancement to suggest over at ideas.arcgis.com. ... View more

In IE8, I can import the LPC.zip shapefile and save the map OK - took about 30 seconds to complete. I dont have that version of Firefox to check against I'm afraid. ... View more

I think this may be because images stored in Google Docs are always accessed via HTTPS, not HTTP, which I dont think is supported in ArcGIS Explorer Online, although I believe this works in the ArcGIS.com map viewer. I believe that due to the secuurity restrictions in Silverlight apps currently, it's not possible to access both HTTP and HTTPS locations in a single in-browser application. ... View more

Can I compress a shapefile using this textbook's software? For uploading to ArcGIS Explorer Online, you just need to create a standard zip file with the shapefile .shp, .dbf, .prj, and .shx parts of the shapefile in it. On Windows, you can use a utility like WinZip, or use the built-in Windows file compression (right-click the files, point to Send to, and then click Compressed (zipped) folder). On a Mac there are many utilities you can use, like MacZip or WinZip for Mac. ... View more

I'm not actually sure what's causing the error in this case, I have forwarded this to the team and will post back when I know about a fix. Hi Susan - a colleage noticed that in this shapefile, there are self-intersections in the polygons, and running the Repair Geometry tool in ArcGIS Desktop corrects these self-intersections and the file imports correctly (see attatched). There's two issues that remain to be corrected in the software - the error message given, and the difference between shapefiles supporting self-intersections, and the service which performs the upload not dealing with self-intersections. ... View more

Hi MapMaker101 - I believe the test1.shp.xml file in your zipfile is causing the problem in this case - if you remove that from your zipfile, the upload works fine. I'm not sure what the precise problem is, as we have many other uploads that include the .shp.xml file, and these upload just fine. I will refer this for more testing to the appropriate colleague. The help lists the files that are used by the upload (.shp, .dbf, .shx and .prj) - all other files are irrelevant to the upload, but shouldnt cause it to fail. I'm sorry to hear you're not happy with this product, but please be assured we are working on addressing all errors that are reported on the forums. ... View more

I was using Arctool box to assign a projection rather than ArcCatalog. Also, what is your best guess for a projection when you don't know it's source? The Atlanta data was from a ESRI Quick Start data set from ArcView 3. I can certainly include in the tips section a link to the appropriate ArcMap help topic for how I assigned a coordinate system - I'm not sure a step by step guide would be much clearer than the existing list of things to consider, as the steps will be different for different datasets - in some the projection is there, some have less than 1000 featutes etc. For guessing a coordinate system, I'm afraid I have no good answers, although it's possible there may be improvements in ArcGIS 10.1 for coordinate system information. Basically if I know where in the world a dataset is for, I can sometimes guess the most likely coordinate system to have been used - e.g. USA using NAD 1983, or UK data using OSGB. I look for a national grid for data thats within a specific country, and look up information about this on the web. You dont always know if you got it exactly right, you may be slightly out, and the data may not quite line up - it's really about provenance of the dataset orignally - I think that Esri example datasets like Data and Maps  have included prj information in recent years, but older products or data found on the web may well be missing this. ... View more

Geocachers use Decimal Minute format of Lat/Lon to find Geocaches using GPS and other locations.  Support of this format in the XY and Measure tools of ArcGIS Explorer online would be much appreciated by the Geocaching community and make the maps exponentially more useful. Its interesting to find out this specific use of the DDM format - I have entered an enhancement request for this for in Find Places and Measure Point (I'm afraid I cant suggest when it might be available yet though). Thanks for posting. ... View more

Hi Margaret - I've attached here the zipfiles that I uploaded - I had used ArcMap Catalog window to assign the geographic coordinate system NAD 1983. Here's a map with the Athigh and Attract zipfiles uploaded - the streets upload will fail unless you split the data into files with less than 1000 features. ... View more

Hi Margaret - your zipfile has three shapefiles in it - you should only have one shapefile in an upload. I will update the tips in the helpfile to make this clearer. When I separated your data into 3 zipfiles and gave each a prj (I guessed at NAD 83 projection), the import of ATHIGH and ATTRACT shapefiles all worked fine for me, but Streets has greater than the 1000 feature limit (you should get a message indicating this), so would need to be split into separate uploads. then reprojected them to WGS 1984; but I still get a error. To be clear, as long as the data has that prj so the coordinate system is known, the data will be reprojected when it's imported to the map, to match the coordinate system of the map, so doesnt have to be reprojected beforehand. ... View more