Latest Contributions by BrianOevermann

I "virtually" nod my head in agreement with many of the comments here. Some days I miss Workstation, too, having 'cut my GIS teeth' on it. Desktop has allowed me to be productive in all of tasks I routinely perform--and it should given how long it has been around. Not so with Pro. ArcGIS Pro is definitely not ready for prime time! Add more than a few layers and I seem to be waiting for screen re-draws more than doing actual productive work. I have a recent, decently configured machine, though not a humongous workstation or Cray supercomputer. I was elated when we were allowed to convert Named User accounts to Concurrent licenses for Pro. The Named User account structure/cost is my largest concern moving forward with our GIS program (we are a city of 35K population). While virtually all of our data is public, we do keep certain data, such as utilities, less "open" due to security concerns. The steady move to require a Name User account to even view data in our interactive map apps unless access is publicly wide open will, given the current cost of NU accounts, price us entirely out of using Esri software because a majority of our internal staff utilize some number of internal "non-public" layers/data (and, thus, require yet another NU account). I'm already beginning to track open source and other options more closely--something I've never felt the need to do. Either that or take a cue from the Workstation holdouts and become a technology "hermit"... Brian ... View more

Luke, This is a blast from the past! I abandoned the "train of thought" that this map service was focused on and we went with a different but slightly less efficient process to achieve the same result. The overall task has since evolved further so we no longer have the same need. I cannot recall whether I attempted any queries against the map service via the REST services pages, but that is typically one of my first troubleshooting points in my attempts to isolate where the issue might lie. However, since I neglected to mention it in my posts it is likely that I didn't. Definitely something to try if this ever comes up again! Thanks for responding. ... View more

Dulini, The python scripts appear to be written specifically for ArcGIS Pro, as they are in AGP Toolboxes. [Disclaimer: I am still on v 10.3, so if v 10.4 of Desktop can now "see" into Pro toolboxes I am unaware.] I have, so far, been able to work around not having an ArcInfo license, but it hasn't been a straightforward experience. My suggestion is to open up the scripts within AGP and take a look at what processes are within it. Many of the tools are "out-of-the-box" 3D Analyst or Spatial Analyst (or regular Desktop) tools, so you may be able to either modify the script accordingly or run tools manually. Be forewarned, at the UC this summer staff were mentioning that some tools related to CityEngine/3D "stuff" were either only available in Pro or otherwise limited on the Desktop side, so Arthur's answer may likely be 'no'. ... View more

Understood, Thomas, and that is exactly what I would expect. I'm still holding out hope that someone has tried it and can confirm either way. We've purchased one license and it is on another staff's machine (though I am primary support for getting everything running) for a variety of reasons. I expect an additional license next year, but I've been able to jump on that machine to get familiar with CE. We run Windows Pro at work, of course. My only reason for asking about Windows Home and CE is because I have a GIS "problem" and can't always leave my work at work. I just want to play around with CE a bit on my own time despite having an "outside of work life" simply because it looks fun. ... View more

Dan, Thanks for replying. Yesterday I did attempt to edit the script. When I chose edit, it popped an error dialog saying it couldn't find the .py file. The script properties indicate that the script is embedded, so my inexperience with Pro led me to believe you couldn't edit once you embedded it. I tried again just now. It appears that if I load the project and immediately open the toolbox and select edit on the script, it "finds" the .py file and presents the code. If I do anything else first, or close the code window and try to edit again it can't find the .py file. Love ArcGIS Pro... I have both the 3D Analyst and Spatial Analyst extensions, so the Zonal Stats tool is not a roadblock. Once I was able to actually see the script code, I noticed (first) that it import ArcInfo. That's because it uses the Feature To Point tool to generate a centroid for the building footprint (an ArcInfo-only tool for whatever asinine reason). I have--or can generate--those centroids in another way so I may explore doing so and modifying the script to just consume that layer directly. Assuming that there isn't another ArcInfo-only tool used somewhere else in the script. ... View more

Awesome, Gert. Is there a way to view the actual script to understand what it is doing? And is there a workaround for those of us "less wealthy" customers that only have the Standard license? ... View more

Gert, I am attempting to run the Calculate Building Height tool using ArcGIS Pro 1.3 Standard. I am getting the following error: The requirements page indicates that one can use Standard or Advanced. However the script appears to require Advanced (ArcInfo). I see no way to edit the embedded script. Any thoughts? Are some of these tools Advanced-license-only? If so, it would be nice to know that up front. ... View more

Robert, Thanks for the comment regarding printing with WAB. And sorry for the minor thread hijack... ... View more

Leo, Reference my comment regarding my lack of WAB use beyond the beta. My experience with the Export Web Task comes from multiple years of using the Flex Viewer. I implemented my own print templates (letter-size up to E-size) for the Export Web Task, which is generally a matter of creating a layout in ArcMap and saving the project without any data layers within it. (I added data initially to help visualize how the layout might react to various data but removed it before final use.) I followed a help document from Esri. Tutorial: Publishing Additional Services for Printing seems to be a "current" version of what I originally used. I recommend registering your folder of layouts because you can then tweak your existing layouts and also add more into the folder without a lot of extra hassle. Hopefully someone with a bit more direct WAB experience will comment and fill in any details specific to printing with WAB. ... View more

Courtney, We have shifted to using Latitude Geographic's Geocortex platform so I haven't used WAB beyond the beta, but doesn't the print function use the Export Web Task from Server? If so, you can implement those legend abilities in your map templates. But... you'll find that implementing legends for any viewer that isn't fairly focused in scope can be a lesson in futility. Hopefully others more directly knowledgeable with WAB can confirm or debunk my assumptions. ... View more

Thanks, Dan. Those were my thoughts, too. I've previously built my own machines at home, mainly to support my photography "habit" and have always run the Pro version of Windows. But I recently decided to buy a desktop-replacement-class laptop instead of building another desktop machine. And of course it came with Home installed. I've been toying with upgrading it to Pro but I wouldn't do that solely to run a trial of CE just to play around with it on my own time. The laptop is recent enough that I haven't yet determined if I actually NEED Pro or if I can get by with keeping Home. The big difference is that it is connected more often wirelessly rather than via ethernet so I've been rethinking my home networking strategy. I'm still hoping someone will reply with "I installed it on my Win 10 Home machine and it works fine." Or reply with "...and it didn't work." ... View more

We are just barely getting started with CityEngine so this comment may come from a position of naivete or ignorance, but if you extrude your water data based upon an elevation, wouldn't it simply extrude like a building footprint and not "fill the tub" by expanding to the surface elevation? It seems like your best method for flood simulation would be to model the flooding with the 3D Analyst extension tools, then import that result into CityEngine. But again, I may be missing something, so forgive me if I am... ... View more

No worries, Christopher. I just didn't want you to start a dead end project! I think my comments regarding legends stand regardless of the platform. FWIW, the Geocortex framework handles the creation of print templates totally differently. Legend creation is slightly better, BUT you can't leverage the built-in ArcGIS options like only showing features/symbol classes within the current extent. You build the template within their report designer which, like any tool, has some advantages and disadvantages. I'd like to at least have the option to use the templates I created for the Flex app directly since I already had them and put effort into creating them. It's a current idea but I'm unsure if it will be implemented. But the issue of allocating enough space for a dynamic legend still exists. So there is no silver bullet. ... View more

Christopher, Is there a particular reason you are developing a new Flex app at this point in time? Flex (Flash) and Silverlight are "dead men walking" and Esri is no longer enhancing the Flex API. Esri has move on to the WebAppBuilder and HTML5. Some popular browsers are even phasing out support for Flash. While we still have a Flex app or two hanging around, we've shifted to using Latitude Geographic's Geocortex framework for creating our HTML5 viewers. It allows us to consume our map services directly without creating a web map first (a requirement for using WebAppBuilder). Not an employee of the company, just a person happy that there's a company that recognizes the cloud isn't the answer for everything. I didn't want to ignore your bumped message and my asking for a reason is more rhetorical than an actual need to know. Even the OP came to the conclusion, as did I, that implementing effective dynamic legends was difficult--if not impossible--in the Flex "world". To be honest, I think legends in web apps only make sense when you have a very defined set of layers (and a small number of them as well) that are not dynamically changeable by the end user. ... View more