Latest Contributions by WesMiller

Have you looked at make feature layer as an option to hold the single row? You could hold it row by row or multiple rows if you needed. ... View more

Are you wanting to compare attributes from row to row? Read a row into a list or dictionary then when you get to the next row compare and repeat. ... View more

If you use a spatial join the fields from both feature classes would be present in a new feature class, but i don't think that will do what you are after. i miss read your question sorry. I would suggest using model builder set it up for each of  the fields you want to add on one feature class and let it run then change the feature class to another and run it again until you get all 20 ... View more

Do you have a common field that you can use to to join the two feature classes or are you going to need to do a spatial join to link the data? ... View more

Glad to hear you got it working ... View more

You are passing a list where you need a path to "Exists" import arcpy, os workspace = r"G:\WATER_FACILITY\WATERLINES.gdb"  wlFclass = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses(waterlines) if arcpy.Exists(os.path.join(workspace,wlFclass[0])):   print 'yes' ... View more

I would use select by attribute to isolate the new records then run your field calculator. ... View more

When you run the dissolve you will be asked where to save the new feature class, so you wont be hurting anything to test. Give it a test and see what happens. ... View more

Your trying to hard import arcpy arcpy.env.worcspace = "Your workspace" for file in arcpy.ListFeatureClasses():   a = "shp_" + file.replace('.','_')   arcpy.Rename_management(file,a) ... View more

If i understand what your after correctly i think dissolve will get you want you want it will combine all the polygons contiguous or not and create a single polygon. ... View more

Try using the Rename (Data Management) tool. ... View more

If your trying to delete the values not the field then use a selection tool and then use field calculator to clear the fields. ... View more

To add to what Darren has already mentioned when data driven pages is enabled the print job will always default to the page if you want to print to a specific area at a specific scale you'll have to disable data driven pages. ... View more

When you say your moving your data off-site do you mean just the data or are you going to a Citrix​ or a vmware​ cloud environment. If your just moving the data the vector data does pretty good if you have the ability to keep raster information in-house you may want to consider it(I'm thinking commonly used aerials and the like that you'll access frequently). If your moving to one of the cloud environments just the opposite you'll want the raster data with those virtual machines to keep speed. We are using the Citrix environment here but i also have a pc to handle geoprocessing and to test with. Hope this helps ... View more

I would check with your county and see if the data already exists with the associated data, it may as the information you mentioned is useful on many levels. If you have to do the update yourself you'll need a field to join the data, usually a tax map number. I would think that since you'll need to do it frequently you'll want to look into model builder. ... View more