Latest Contributions by JustinShepard

What I want to do in a nutshell is get the raster (likely elevation) value at a given point, apply an offset (ie. offset value = value at point + user defined offset), and return a display that shows what has a value above or below that value. I have this working using a custom geoprocessing model but I was hoping that Runtime for .NET would have some built in ways to handle this, given all of the excitement at the Dev Summit about what they were working on. But I have yet to find an effective way to accomplish this using the .NET Desktop Runtime. Some things that I've looked into but couldn't get working were: 1) use the offset value to change the symbology of the raster so that it simply shows two colors, what is >= and what is < the offset value 2) 3D fill of the map so that it just draws in a fill up to the offset value Any ideas on how to best handle this would be appreciated. Given that this is a desktop app I would really like to let the user point to any raster on their network/computer rather than having to rely on a service but I realize that may not be possible. Thanks. ... View more

I'm thinking through how to set up services for mapping, downloading, and graphing data collected at monitoring stations. If the data is entered into a PostgreSQL database how would GeoEvent processor tie into that, or is there a better setup than using GeoEvent? I haven't used GeoEvent before, but I was thinking that a connector could be setup to poll the PostgreSQL database at regular intervals, perform any preprocessing that can be done, and then serve out the map services through ArcGIS Server. If that setup works would the map service data be available for a user to select and download (with an option to download as shapefile, csv, or Excel) too? I'm assuming that the services would support anything that data coming from a non-sde would support. ... View more

I have installed ArcGIS for Desktop 10.2.2 (also tried this with 10.2.1) and it will not load data from my ArcGIS for Organization account. I have tried loading the data from within ArcMap (add data from argis online after signing in) and going to the webiste and clicking Open in ArcGIS for Desktop then opening the package. It doesn't matter how I add it to ArcMap, nothing is displayed and nothing is added to the table of contents... no error messages either. I can view and edit the service if I use a web map OR if I add the service to ArcMap 10.1 (which is installed on another computer so I can't rule out something on my local machine blocking it). Has anyone else had this issue? Update 2014-04-18: * Tested AcrMap 10.2 again: still failed. Tracked communications with Fiddler and the json response said 'Token Required' * Uninstalled ArcMap 10.2 and reinstalled 10.1: able to add to ArcMap, edit, and synch data. Tracked communications with Fiddler and json response had full details. ! Still don't know why this doesn't work in 10.2. I will try contacting esri tech support. ... View more

Are there any recommended ways of setting up hosted services in ArcGIS for Portal so that I could set members of a group as editors and everyone else (either by group or public) with read-only access? I would like to avoid relying on the Web Map to limit editing (i.e. disable editing of the layer in the Web Map) so that the permissions are set at the service layer. But I can�??t figure out how to create two services pointing to the same hosted data. The solution I�??ve come up with so far is to create two hosted services (one for editing and one for view only). The editable service would then be published and shared only with access to the editor�??s group. Then it would be the responsibility of the editors (and/or an automated script) to overwrite the read-only service with the new data. I was hoping that there is a more streamlined process for this so ideas are welcome. ... View more

I'm creating a map package for use in a WPF for Runtime application. When creating the map package if I check 'Support ArcGIS Runtime' then it greys out and checks the option 'Include Enterprise Geodatabase data instead of referencing the data.' I need to reference the enterprise geodatabasse data, not include it. If I choose the 'Reference all Data' option then it does uncheck the 'Include...' option however when I use the package in the WPF application there are no layers in the service. If I include the data then it loads fine with the layers. Why does checking 'Support ArcGIS Runtime' disable and check the option to 'Include Enterprise Geodatabase data instead of referencing the data'? How can I resolve this so that the data is referenced? The Enterprise Geodatabase is running in SQL Server Express for this. I have also tried adding the layer to ArcMap using a connection with OS Auth and tried another one using database auth. Both (OS and Database Auth) fail to load the data that I want to reference. ... View more

I have a geoprocessing package that is generating a raster. When that completes I need to be able to load it into the map in the ArcGIS Runtime WPF application and set the symbology. From what I've seen this isn't exposed as an option but I'm really hoping that I missed something. All I want to do is set the raster to use Stretched and change the Color Ramp, I don't want to mess with the statistics of the raster just apply the color ramp. Is there a way to create stretched color ramp renderer and apply it to a raster layer? I was looking at the SDK Sample 'Add Shapefiles and Rasters' but the sample only applies symbology to the vector data and defaults to black-to-white for the rasters. ... View more

Is there a way to allow the user to use the keys to move as though they were walking on the ground looking straight ahead. Basically I want to go to a 3D view, snap the the user to the elevation, have them looking straight, and if they use the arrow forward(up)/back(down) arrow keys then it moves them along the ground rather than through the elevation (hills etc). Also if they use the left or right arrow keys I still want that to turn left/right so that they can look around and change directions. ... View more

I'm setting up some popup templates and was thinking of using the mediainfos option to include charts along with the description (the description section will really include raw data not represented in the chart). I have the data and charts coming through into the popup but the two things that I can't figure out how to do are: 1) display labels along the chart axis. So if we look at the popup charting sample, https://developers.arcgis.com/en/javascript/jssamples/popup_chart.html I would be looking for a way to display the label from fieldInfos along the axis so that the user doesn't have to hover over the graph to see what it's showing. I know that dojo charting allows for control of dropLabels and Axis Label Shortening but I don't know how to configure that when using the popup mediaInfos. 2) have the description in one tab and the mediaInfos in another tab. also, the popup will be returning results from multiple layers.. ... View more