Latest Contributions by DavidMedeiros

That's what I'm finding. Enabling Z values in the environment doesn't  seem to effect the out put of a Data > Export Data flow that won't help quickly create a Z aware copy of the data. Maybe I can hunt down a tool that will use that environment setting. Like I described above, it's easy enough to re import points from a table and add the Z awareness then, but what would a user do who receives an existing 2d line for say trails in a park and then ants to use some of the 3d tools that require a Z aware line layer. Would they have extract the nodes, export an xy table, re import with Z values, the re connect the nodes into lines? Seems absurd. ... View more

To help clarify the question. I'm not looking for ways to visualize or represent the data in 3d, but to make the properties of the data change from not having Z values to having Z values. If you check the properties of any GIS data layer you will see an indication of the presence or absence of Z values for that data. For point data for instance I know that you can make them Z aware while creating them from a table of XY coordinates. But for existent GIS data, is there a way to make them Z aware after the fact? ... View more

Step one of almost any research project here is to get out of GCS, unless the interpolation that causes changes the raster values we need to evaluate. With data like LandScan global pop rasters you don't want interpolate the pop values before measuring them, the same might be true of the night lights data but I think the variation is probably minimal at the admin 2 level. My stats background is limited so I wasn't aware that you could derive the percentile from the mean and standard deviation. I doubt the data are going to be normally distributed though, it's likely to be a skewed distribution for many parts of the world with far more dark pixels than very bright. I'll have the researcher sample a few zones to be sure. Apart from that I take it there is no simple method for tackling this question? Even breaking the raster up by admin 2 zones before vectorizing seems daunting. ... View more

Thanks Mike, That looks to be relevant only to the Enterprise Login function, which I don't have set up at the moment. I inherited management of our account and need to investigate the Enterprise function at some point. That said, I would think this would be a general Roles function and available universally across AGO instead of just under Enterprise. David ... View more

Thanks Heath, I thought I'd read or heard that AGO admins were able to set the default role to a custom role. I assumed this meant there was a AGO admin feature to change the default role as opposed to needing to script something. Too bad, seems like a simple and obvious add on to AGO control for Esri. ... View more

I have the same question. How can I verify (and then change) the default role? I've created a custom user role with limited credit spending abilities that I'd like to be the first role applied to each new account, rather then having to change the roles manually. ... View more

That was my assumption, but the hazy area is that inside Pro there are geoprocessing tools for Spatial Analysis and Network Analysis as well other tools for things like Info Graphics that cost credits within AGO. I would assume that these run locally in Pro and do not consume credits, but with Pro requiring an AGO log in, I can't take the risk that there are hidden paths to credit usage in the tool my users need to know about. Is any of this spelled out in the Pro documentation? Is there any warning on tools or processes inside Pro that would let you know you are about to use a credit based service in the app (if that's possible)? ... View more

How do you envision the user experience should be? Intuitive. I always start with a search as well, but usually look for the specific forum or topic I'm interested in first. GeoNet is designed from the discussion level down instead of the topic level. It's vaguely social media based and I get the desire to incorporate that feeling here, but it should be easier to start a topic focused question as well. I'm sure people are getting used to it, I find it disorienting when it differs so much form almost every other support forum I've ever used. I have the same complaint about ArcGIS Pro BTW (unintuitive documentation and user interface). For an app that requires an AGO log-in to use, answering the question of credit usage should have been in the FAQ ; ) ... View more

Thanks Timothy. I have to say though, I find the new GeoNet format an absolute PIA to navigate. The fact that users even need the two docs you referenced in order to find the proper place to submit a post should be a signal that there is a usability issue at work here. ... View more