Latest Contributions by BuckySwider

Thanks much Brian!  After a sleep-deprived weekend (I made the most of the extra hour!) I have pretty much everything lined up- I did, however, bomb in the run book creation due to what seems to be a know bug. However, I AM very interested in creating a grid with different size squares like you have done- a smaller coverage area for more dense locales, and larger for rural-type tracts.  As I noted above, I used the "grid index" tool to create my uniformly sized grid.  Any info or insight you could pass along on how to do this would be greatly appreciated! I will contact you offline.... I guess I get it that we are charged a nominal fee (3 cents per parcel) for the map data.  Our 911 administrators don't know much about map data- I approached them first.  In PA since we're a "home rule" commonwealth, we're actually a separate entity from the county who supplies dispatch and property services... ... View more

You need to create it using the "Grid Index Features" tools.  That will create the index grid, then you need to create the fields with the adjacent cell info with the appropriately named "Calculate Adjacent Fields" tool.  BUT, that second tool is not built in ArcGIS PRO yet (it's coming in January in 2.3) so you have to revert back to ArcMap and then import it in to your ArcGIS project.  And inexplicably the field names don't match the LGIM schema, but it's very easy to see which one goes where when you do the "Append" task for that dataset.   ... View more

It's actually a separate task.  After the "Create run book pages" bombed, I moved on to the "Create street index" task.   ... View more

It's actually documented in the task- it even specifies the clone requirement if you're at 2.2.  Was much less daunting then I had anticipated- was actually rather simple.  I was previously unaware that the "python environment" was an ArcGIS construct- at first blush I thought I needed to somehow mess with my PC's python environment, which scared me since I use that daily to process incident reports.   No case opened yet- there's something wrong in my organizational setup that says I don't have permissions to open up a support case.  It says to contact my administrator to get the permission assigned.  But I'm the administrator!!     I contacted the account rep and hopefully this will get squared away soon and I'll be able to open a case. Be on the lookout for another thread I'll be starting w/r/t fire run books- the python script that creates the street index pages is quite lacking for the purpose.  Gonna look for advice or a crackerjack python programmer to try to get it up to speed.   ... View more

Yep, I cloned and activated the python environment, and installed Reportlab.  I think that's all I need to do, right? It's ArcGIS Pro 2.2.3.   ... View more

Hi Rhonda / Heather, did you ever get this to work?  I've experienced the same exact thing- crash during "Create Run Book" pages.  After all it took me to get this far it was quite the disappointment!!!   ... View more

Hi Michael, I just spent a loooonnngggg time getting my data into the LGIM for this.  I am going to write up a step-by-step thing at some point, but briefly, you can import your data model into the LGIM created by this package.  The "Append" function will open up in the proper tasks.  Do the best you can when matching your data to the corresponding field in the LGIM.  Putting as much as you can into the LGIM will give you the most options when formatting your particular run books/wall maps.  For instance, if you don't put your parcel addresses into the SiteAddresses ADDRNUM field, you won't be able to print addresses on your run books or maps.  I also think you need the proper Street lines data including FROMLEFT/TOLEFT FROMRIGHT/TORIGHT to get the street index pages to print properly.  I actually haven't proved that yet- I had the same problem that Rhonda experienced so I haven't made it to that step yet. ... View more

OK, this turned out to be a rather simple one.  I just had to change the coordinate system of the "map"  (top element above all the layers, if anyone else is like me and doesn't know this seemingly ambiguous term) to that of all the layers.  Right-click, properties, Coordinate System.  VIOLA!!   ... View more

Nope, definitely a re-occurrence.  Looks like it was OK in the test project I built in ArcGIS PRO, but the Fire Service Maps package (which is a project all its own, separate from my "test" project)  re-injects the skew- gotta figure out which projections to use to match the target package... ... View more

I haven't yet determined if this is an artifact from a previous attempt or if I really haven't solved the issue (I'm trying to figure out where the tasks for Fire Service Maps is putting stuff) but here is what was/is happening.... https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/45494986_10204864096118058_2603808912289300480_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_ht=sc…  ... View more

Great thanks Kory!  Good to know.  I saw a list that I thought was stuff that was *not* being ported- I didn't  perceive a not YET thing, but I'm suffering from information overload right now  .  My browser tab bar looks like a picket fence!   I think I've worked around the "skewed" thing.  The symptom was when I opened the grid created in ArcMap in ArcGIS, the Y lines were pointed about 5 degrees west of north.  The way I "solved" it was to pare down my source in ArcMap to just a single layer which had a "good" projection (NAD 1983) and create the grid on top of that single feature.  I imported that into my ArcGIS PRO project and everything looked good.  I would think that I ran into what I imagine is an extremely common problem in the GIS business- layering data from many sources induced projection mismatches.  And my lack of experience made it difficult for me to recognize and remedy.  But I think I'm learning! ... View more

OK, and update to this one- I found a tool "Grid Index Features" that you point to a layer and it makes a grid of your choosing. However, in order to create the data fields for the adjacent map fields, you follow that up with the aptly-named "create adjacent fields".  Which is deprecated in ArcGIS PRO.  I have another question opened up about that one... https://community.esri.com/message/810762-calculate-adjacent-fields-in-arcgis-pro  One step at a time! ... View more

Woo Hoo!  Finally wrote the proper 5 lines of python to copy the strings to new columns defined as LONG.  Used them for the APPEND to the LGIM, and it worked!   So onward & upward...next it's asking me to append to FireMapIndex.  I have no idea why there would be a input dataset for this.  It's a bunch of page number type stuff for the <eventual> map book.  The shape is a Polygon, though.  I'm really out in left field here.  Suspicions may be that this is the polygon that delimits the map area, but I would have suspected FireDistrict did that.   Field DataType Length AliasName Description NWPAGENUM String 15 Map Sheet Number (Northwest) The map sheet page number to the northwest of the primary page NPAGENUM String 15 Map Sheet Number (North) The map sheet page number to the north of the primary page NEPAGENUM String 15 Map Sheet Number (Northeast) The map sheet page number to the northeast of the primary page WPAGENUM String 15 Map Sheet Number (West) The map sheet page number to the west of the primary page EPAGENUM String 15 Map Sheet Number (East) The map sheet page number to the east of the primary page SWPAGENUM String 15 Map Sheet Number (Southwest) The map sheet page number to the southwest of the primary page SPAGENUM String 15 Map Sheet Number (South) The map sheet page number to the south of the primary page SEPAGENUM String 15 Map Sheet Number (Southeast) The map sheet page number to the southeast of the primary page PAGENUMBER Integer 4 Map Sheet Number The fire map book map sheet number PAGENAME String 15 Map Sheet Name The fire map book map sheet name, which in some cases is the same as the number LASTUPDATE Date 8 Last Update Date The date of last update in maintenance database I think I will skip this on and move on to FireDistrict.   For this, as I implied before, I'm just going to use our Township Municipal Boundaries.  So the next befuddling task is to figure out how to add one of the supplied "PA Municipal Boundaries" layers and deleted everything except my township.  But everything I find won't let me remove rows.  Not sure if this is the proper approach, but it's all I've got for now!   ... View more

I'm not sure what the input fields that don't have values are...blanks, nulls, nothing.  So if one of those "nothings' comes in, don't do anything to the output (it's already null)......if not, first convert to INT and then pass it along.  ... View more