Latest Contributions by Bud

Idea: Could Esri consider offering a “home use program” for ArcGIS Developer? For example, some companies offer a program where employees can get a discount on products, if their employer has already paid for the product. The idea being, the employee wants to use the product at home, for professional development purposes. But, it would be unrealistic to pay thousands of dollars for the software, since they already have access to it at work. Still, the employee would like to use the product at home, so that they can have more freedom to experiment, and would even be willing to pay for it. But the key thing is, the price needs to be reasonable. Otherwise, the employee won’t be interested in paying for it. Microsoft has a program like that for their products. You tell them your company email address, they verify your employer already pays for the product, and then they give you a discount on the price (the discount is sent to your work email address). Otherwise, they know people won’t be interested in paying full price for the product if they already have access to it at work. It seems like a clever revenue source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/home-use-program Could Esri consider doing something similar? It would be pretty great to be able to learn and experiment with things like AppStudio at home, since that’s not something I have time for at work right now. And I’d be happy to sign a contact that says it’s for home-use only. Would that be doable? Thanks. (an aspiring ArcGIS app developer…who can’t afford the price of a yearly Developer subscription) ... View more

I wonder if something like this would be possible: Using an Arcade function, send an HTTP request to an external system, and receive text or JSON back as a response. ... View more

Could Esri consider adding a Arcade function for getting the endpoint of a polyline? (including multipart lines) Similar to ST_Geometry’s St_Endpoint() function.   Related: Arcade: Get endpoint coordinates of multi-part polyline ... View more

In the Arcade IsSimple() function docs: IsSimple(inputGeometry) -> Boolean Indicates if the given geometry is topologically simple. It would help if the docs could explain what is meant by “topologically simple”. Not everyone reading those docs is fluent in topology lingo. ... View more

When using the Arcade Intersects()  function on a point and a polyline: Is a search tolerance used? The reason I ask: If I were to zoom in enough, I would think that the point would be close to the line, but wouldn’t truly intersect the line. (Unless the line has a vertex that is exactly the same as the point.) If that’s the case, then is it implied that a certain search tolerance or buffer is used? If so, how big is the tolerance? Image source: Arcade Intersects() function docs ... View more

Could the Densify() function be enhanced so that it can be used on a featureSet, not just an individual feature? For example, densify a handful of polylines that were returned from a FC using the Filter() function. ... View more

Could Esri consider adding a Arcade function that could convert multipart feature vertices to points? ... View more

Could an Arcade function be added to do the following: Snap a point to a polyline — but snap it mid-segment, not just to the closest vertex. The function would return the snapped point — as well as return the ID of the polyline the point was snapped to. Thanks. ... View more

I want to find all ArcGIS communities that have the ‘Arcade’ label — so that I can subscribe to those labels. Examples: - ArcGIS Pro Community - [Arcade] - ArcGIS Online Community - [Arcade] - Others How can I search all communities for a certain label? ... View more

It would be helpful if there were an Arcade function for setting M-values of polyline vertices. For example, set the M-values of a line to the cumulative distance of the line.   ... View more

Arcade: What’s the most succinct way to get the endpoint coordinates of multi-part polyline? Related: Idea: Arcade Endpoint() function ... View more

  It would be great if we could use related DB views as FeatureSets in Arcade scrips (just like we do with related FCs).   ... View more

The Arcade docs have examples for the GroupBy() function: Returns the count and the average height of each tree type var treeStats = GroupBy($layer, [ // fields/expressions to group statistics by { name: 'Type', expression: 'TreeType'}, { name: 'Status', expression: 'TreeStatus'} ], [ // statistics to return for each unique category { name: 'Total', expression: '1', statistic: 'COUNT' }, { name: 'AvgHeight', expression: 'Height', statistic: 'AVG' }, { name: 'MaxPercentCoverage', expression: 'CoverageRatio * 100', statistic: 'MAX' } ] ); // treeStats contains features with columns Type, Status, Total, AvgHeight, MaxPercentCoverage // Each unique tree type (combination of type and status) will have a count, average height, and maximum value of percent coverage That GroupBy() stuff can get messy in a hurry. It would help if we could see what the SQL would look like, right in the docs. (possibly as a comment in the Arcade code example)   ... View more