Latest Contributions by RichardDaniels

I'm not an expert on this, but hope this helps. In CityEngine the default coordinate system is CityEngine CS (Meters). When working with georeferenced data you need to set a valid coordinate system set. There are three methods: Setting a Coordinate System when GeoRef data is added to the scene Setting a CS when creating a new scene Change the scene CS in the preferences When a CS is changed no projection on the fly is done -you are only defining the projection CS for the display. Secondly, geographic CS are not supported AND CityEngine does not support Datum-Transformations. Thus you need to project/reproject your data to a common CS prior to importing into CityEngine. If you have a datum issue it looks like you need to fix it prior to loading into CityEngine More information can be found at : http://cehelp.esri.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.procedural.cityengine.help/html/manual/georef/scs.html Rich ... View more

you can save the setting in your normal.mxt file. Then the extension will be turned-on every time you startup ArcMap. Downside is it is on every time you startup , which is something many people complain about. ... View more

ArcGIS uses your windows internet settings for proxy server information,  you should check your IE settings in Tools | Internet Settings | Connections | LAN Settings. You can also install ArcGIS Explorer Desktop and run the Test Connection Speed test to help identify where you have problems (found in ArcGIS Explorer Options | Resources | Test Connection Speed). Rich ... View more

that just points out how screwed up the new geoNet is. ... View more

The issue will be permissions related or a physical problem with the shapefile itself. To validate the health of the shape file follow the instructions found at: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//005600000010000000 On the security side be sure the person editing has full control over all the files utilized by the shapefile. Some patches you may try loading are found at http://support.esri.com/en/downloads/patches-servicepacks/view/productid/66/metaid/2026 Try theses, especially if you have a large number of fields in the shapefile or use cut and paste to copy features. Hope these help. ... View more

The answer is YES if you are talking about ArcGIS Desktop 10.2.x. Do the following: 1. Turn on the Drawing toolbar in ArcMap 2. Draw your graphics 3. Select your graphic points, lines, or polygons graphics - can't "mix" the data types 4. Right click on your Data Frame (e.g., "Layers"  by default) in the Table of Contents 5. Select Convert Graphics to Features <-- this is new at 10.2 There are code samples to do this in ArcScripts as well at http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=14751 Rich ... View more

Is your Shapefile located on a share drive? That may be the issue. Also, there were several patches that addressed Shapefile support in ArcGIS Desktop 10.2.x. ... View more

As a side note, the examples use TIMEOUT settings of as little as 10 seconds. Since network outages can result in delays or a person may be away from their desk when the "reconnect to license server" message is received this appears short. We set this to the maximum time we think a user would have a license and don't consider a license hung until it has not responded to a longer time. For example, we use TIMEOUT AFTER 24 HOURS TIMEOUTALL 86400 and set shorter times for specific futures, like ARC/INFO TIMEOUT ARC/INFO 120 ... View more

Just as a point of clarification, most field surveys conducted with "plain table" were highly accurate. If the map you are using was created by the USGS or Coastal Survey (or their predecessors) the data will be of high quality. Your issue is selecting and using the best method for georeferencing your information. If you are georeferencing a topo map you should check to see if you have any benchmarks listed. You may be able to find their current coordinates and use them to georeference you map as well. For step by step method for georeferencing historical maps take at look at http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc98/PROCEED/TO300/PAP300/P300.HTM ... View more

The pocket agenda is handy and should be kept; however, this year the way the advertising pages were inserted divided up the agenda. Instead of being at the end of each day, or between session time slots, they were inserted between sessions in the same slot (so you could miss sessions located after the advertisement, e.g. page 42).The information for the plenary session was to generic as well, it said "8:30 AM to 3:30 PM" which missed the 1 1/2 hour lunch break. In the past the break would have been listed. What I missed was the "pocket" for the pocket agenda. The solid plastic badge backing they gave out this year was not functional. On the application front, the best "agenda app" could be based on the pocket agenda; however,the Session titles would be hyperlinks that when clicked would "expand" and show the session description and the paper titles & authors. If the titles were clicked they would expand to a second level to show the abstract. There would be a Search screen on the top of the application as well based on keyword, author, day, and title that would return a result list. When a result is selected it would jump into the agenda at the selected location. the key is that the agenda does not have to be the "same" as the planner, since the planner is used prior to the event while the pocket agenda is designed to be used "on the fly" while you are on the escalator in the Convention Center at 8:30 AM. ... View more

Well the ESRI preconference planning tool was pretty hard to navigate, even on a dual monitor PC, so trying to use it while actually at the conference was out. To be honest, the thing that needs the most work is access to the session descriptions or paper abstracts. Instead of focusing on bling and fancy code they need something that is fast and easy to use, like this example for the AAG -> http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/index.cfm?mtgID=59 ... View more

danielri;343086 wrote: If you will be 'deploying' the Maps for Office package to your users and they DON'T have admin on their computers then you should tweak the msi so that the 'check for updates' option is turned off after installation (i.e., in Excel you will find this setting in File | Esri Maps). If you have access to an MSI editing tool like Orca, just go to the Property Table and change the "CheckboxForUpgrade" properties valu to 0, ensure ALLUSERS is set to 1. Other option would be to just go to the Upgrade Table and change the versionmin number to a large value like 3.0 so an upgrade never can occur. QUOTE] Note at 2.1.3 and 2.1.4 you can still set the values shown here but the MSI does not appear to actually use them, thus setting the version min to a large number may be your best bet. CheckboxForUpgrade value to 0 in the Checkbox table AND CheckboxForUpgrade value to 0 in the Property table SoftwareUpgradeCheckBox condition to SOFTWAREUPGRADE="false" in ControlCondition table SetCheckForSoftwareUpgrade condition to CheckboxForUpgrade="0" inControlEvent  table ... View more

I don't know how to fix it, but before Python 2.6.x there was no explicit way to declare an abstract class. It changed with the abc (Abstract Base Class) module now available from the standard library in Python 2.7. I'm getting the same error with this line of code. partGeom = arcpy.Geometry("polygon", arcpy.Array(trPoints)) The variable partGeom probably needs to be declared now... Rich ... View more

This is the key, you need to open an inbound port on the ArcGIS Server for port 6080. How to do this is described at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc947814(v=ws.10).aspx. Rich ... View more

If you will be 'deploying' the Maps for Office package to your users and they DON'T have admin on their computers then you should tweak the msi so that the 'check for updates' option is turned off after installation (i.e., in Excel you will find this setting in File | Esri Maps). If you have access to an MSI editing tool like Orca, just go to the Property Table and change the "CheckboxForUpgrade" properties valu to 0, ensure ALLUSERS is set to 1. Other option would be to just go to the Upgrade Table and change the versionmin number to a large value like 3.0 so an upgrade never can occour. just saying... ... View more