Latest Contributions by MalcolmMeyer2

Vincent, can you clarify what you mean by "And there is no comparison to any .pdf exported from ArcGIS...". If you mean in terms of filesize, I agree. In terms of map quality or vector quality, I would disagree. If you examine the CAD map at 200% maybe you can see some simplification, but of course you would not see that in print. Examining these maps (my zoning map and the linked CAD map) side by side at 100% there is no discernible difference. Given that, and given that CAD is doing some type of simplification, then possibly with vector simplification in ArcGIS Pro we can achieve some smaller file sizes without resorting to rasterization.  Jeff - Can you confirm that decreasing the vector quality as you describe above results in smaller file sizes for PDFs and possibly give some examples?  ... View more

That's all good, but what about my question on how AutoCAD is able to export extremely small PDFs with layers? Rasterization is already possible via export to an image.  ... View more

Any work on this or anyone want to post detail on how to use the python code in PRO to generate pluscodes. QGIS now has a plugin that will do this but native support in ArcGIS Pro would be great. ... View more

There must be some way to export vector data in PDF format without a large file size. In making our new zoning map, I found some zoning maps online that look like they were exported in CAD. This one in particular is a 36x48 map, with all the vector layers in the PDF layer menu, and is only 650KB. Here is the link - https://ci.ellensburg.wa.us/documentcenter/view/713. My zoning map I created in PRO is also 36x48 with a similar amount of layers, but when exported as a PDF it is 14MB, that is 21x larger. Something is not right here. If I take some layers out I can get it down to around 9MB. So PRO devs, maybe take some AutoDesk devs out to lunch or something and get this figured out. ... View more

sure how would I do that? I also ran into another issue in this project where I was using feature weights that ended up creating serious hangs in the labeling engine. I found a work-around involving creating a few separate files to use as the mask and the label...but that is another issue. How do you want me to share the project? ... View more

My original problem and question is more of a practical one than a technical one. Yes it seems that the most accurate way to convert between NAD83 and WGS84 is to use the ITRF00 transformation, as ArcGIS Pro does by default. However, when ArcMap and QGIS do not have this applied by default when using projection on-the-fly, it makes things very confusing. Additionally, it appears that when uploading data to Mapbox in NAD83, no transformation is applied. I would be curious to know if the same is true for data in NAD83 uploaded to ArcGIS Online, or again for the HAZUS data conversion. -- Update 12/27/18 - HAZUS confirmed that they use the IRTF00 Transformation. Since the data I am working with is not survey grade, I am going to stick with what is practical, which seems for the time being to disable transformations in ArcGIS Pro for NAD83-WGS84 until the industry as a whole adopts a standard. -- Update 3/5/19 - I have not found a way to disable the default transformation in Model Builder in Pro. ... View more

I would be curious to know if HAZUS applied a transformation when converting their data to WGS84. In this article from March of this year it does not get into the details of the conversion. Hazus input datasets, including state inventory data, were converted from NAD83 to the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) coordinate system in order to better support U.S. territories and long-term goals for international hazard modeling. https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1523565115955-4ba53dd63d9deb53f0bfeabb9ff240ed/Hazus_Coordinate_System_Change_Ma…  If so, it would make me feel more comfortable in using the ITRF00 transformation. ... View more

My ortho imagery already being hosted on the web was exported without any transformation being applied, so all my data needs to match that imagery, until I upload new imagery. Still, QGIS also does not apply a transformation automatically between NAD83 and WGS84, and I utilize that in my workflow as well. This means I will likely not be using the new default transformation in ArcGIS Pro. ... View more

Hmm, thought I replied to this already. Anywway the problem is noted here - coordinate system - Transforming GCS_North_American_1983 to GCS_WGS_1984 using ArcGIS Desktop? - Geographic Information …  Specifically - "Transformation 2 for CSRS and ITRF00 for NAD83 (original) are the default transformations in Esri software now." However, ArcMap does not have a default transformation set. Setting this transformation to "None" in ArcGIS Pro seemed to fix the issue for me, at least at the moment. ... View more

NVIDIA Quadro P4000, but this crash also happened on another machine - an older laptop with an NVIDIA 940M ... View more

That's fine, as long as the tool doesn't crash pro - see link above for more info, but yes I ran this tool and pro crashed without an error message or writing any information to the text file. ... View more

To clarify, there is no error dialog or anything, just a sudden and complete exit of the application. ... View more