Latest Contributions by SarahAmbrose

‎03-08-2018

Hi Carsten_Nexiga I usually recommend to move the data around as little as possible - especially with big data. For your case, I would guess it’s going to be faster to run the data directly from the big data file share than to publish the data, and then run the tool. But there may be other factors, for example if your csv is on a shared location that has slow network speeds, and it takes a while for the server to access it. Ultimately, I think there is more flexibility with a big data file share (such as being able to easily modify the data, more flexibility in time and geometry formats, ability to add multiple csvs to represent 1 dataset) that using a big data file share is usually more advantageous. For this response I assumed "effective" meant, “Which is faster?”. Let me know if that’s not what you mean and I’ll change up my answer a bit. Thanks, Sarah Ambrose Product Engineer, GeoAnalytics Server

‎03-08-2018

Hi Carsten, There shouldn’t be a difference in performance at all. When you run a GeoAnalytics tool through the portal ma viewer and Pro it’s executing the analysis on the GeoAnalytics Server. The time to pass the information from Pro to the GeoAnalytics Server and the Portal Map Viewer to the GeoAnalytics Server should be very similar. There are other reasons to choose one experience over another, but it’s mostly based on personal choice. For example, there are more verbose messages in Pro on the status of the job, while the Portal experience is more simplified. Thanks, Sarah Ambrose Product Engineer, GeoAnalytics Server

‎03-06-2018

Hi Dalinda, The way I conceptually think about append is “I have an existing feature service that I am appending to, and I won’t be modifying the original schema. I can mix and match how fields are appended, but the original fields will remain”. It’s one existing dataset, and you are adding a new dataset to that existing one. Merge is more like taking two new datasets, and create 1 “new” one from those. With the append operation, the data that's already "there" stays, and we can only modify what’s being added. I think its best explained with an example though: Say I have a feature service layer with fields named [Field1, Field2, Field3] and I want to append a dataset with fields named [Field1, Field2, Field4, Field5]. There is nothing I can do so that the appended dataset will have 4 fields, because the original schema will remain. I can do some mixing and matching if I want in the field mapping (say, Field4 is appended to Field 3), but the schema of the data, once everything has been appended will always have 3 fields, named Field1, Field2, Field3. Does that make sense? Is that the functionality you are looking for, or would a merge be more suitable? This is similar to how ArcGIS Pro append works. “Because the input datasets' data is written into an existing target dataset that has a predefined schema (field definitions), the Field Map control does not allow for fields to be added or removed from the target dataset.” Thanks, Sarah

‎03-03-2018

Hi Dalinda, Intersect and Union are exactly what I’m talking about for Overlay Layers! Those are being worked on now. We haven’t had any other requests for Repair Geometry, but we’ve noted it down. If you would like to email me a few more details about your use case, that would help us in prioritizing this tool (sambrose at esri.com). If you could also send me some details in what you are interested in dissolving (just generally something like “I want to dissolve overlapping polygons”, that would help as well). We don’t currently have a standalone tool for projecting data, but you are able to set a processing spatial reference through Pro and Portal. This will project the data on the fly, and if it’s saved to the relational data store, maintain that projection. As for Merge, we’re currently working on a way to Append Data, which would give similar functionality. The only difference would be that you can’t modify the original input data. If you don’t think Append will meet your needs, please let me know what would be missing from it. We don’t currently have a way to clip data to a specified polygon. You can specify an analysis extent, but it won’t change polygon boundaries, only isolate and use the intersecting features in analysis. We’ll be sure to post in the Big Data place if the GeoAnalytics videos become available. I really do recommend the conferences if you get the opportunity! Product teams are there in person to talk and discuss with ArcGIS users. A win for users, and a big win for us to hear what you’re looking for in the product! Let me know if I missed anything, Sarah Product Engineer, GeoAnalytics Team

‎03-02-2018

Hi Dalinda, Another great question! We aren’t able to tell how much of our users are mixing traditional desktop tools with GeoAnalytics tools. But, I can give you some general best practice guidelines and recommendations of when to use a mix of regular Pro GP tools and GeoAnalytics tools. When we run GeoAnalytics tools with regular desktop tools (talking about Pro specifically here) we mostly do it in the following scenarios: When we start using GeoAnalytics and use it to summarize, aggregate or analyze the data so that it becomes a more manageable size. Then we chain Pro tools on using the smaller, more manageable result. When we’re analyzing data that’s of a size we could analyze with Pro tools, but we’re hoping to take advantage of capabilities only available in GeoAnalytics (like time steps in Aggregate Points, tools unique to GeoAnalytics, accessing data in a big data file share). Let me know if you have any more questions on a specific use case or workflow. With more details on the type of data, data location and planned analysis, I can help figure out the best place to stage your data, and recommend how to take the most advantage of analysis on ArcGIS Enterprise. Sarah Ambrose Product Engineer, GeoAnalytics Team

‎03-02-2018

Hi Dalinda Damm, Great question! GeoAnalytics definitely works for space only. We often emphasis time in presentations and documentation because it’s a new concept for analyzing GIS data. Most customers of GeoAnalytics have time enabled data, since big data is often observational data accumulated over time, but many don’t use time at all! There are only 2 tools at 10.5/10.5.1 that require time, Create Space Time Cube and Reconstruct Tracks. At 10.6, the tool Detect Incidents requires time. Other than those listed tools, you can take advantage of lots of ‘run of the mill’ tools that have been implemented for distributed analysis. For example, some of our most popular tools that don’t require time are Aggregate Points, Join Features, Summarize Attributes, Find Hot Spots and Copy to Data Store. Please let me know if you have any follow up questions. Thanks, Sarah Ambrose Product Engineer, GeoAnalytics Team

‎03-02-2018

Hi DalindaDamm‌, It is expected that there will be new tools exposed in the GeoAnalytics Toolbox in ArcGIS Pro at each release (and we’re working on more now!). It’s important to point out that Pro is a client for GeoAnalytics Server. This means that tools are first implemented in GeoAnalytics Server, and Pro is just one way of running the tools you have on your GeoAnalytics Server (you can run them through the Portal Map Viewer, the ArcGIS API for Python and REST as well). At 10.5 and 10.5.1 there are 12 GeoAnalytics Tools. At 10.6 we introduced three new tools, Calculate Field, Detect Incidents, and Geocode Locations from Tables. The Pro 2.1 release went out around the same time as 10.6, and exposed the Calculate Field and Detect Incidents tool. We’re currently working on 10.6.1 which will include some new tools. It is planned that these new 10.6.1 tools will be exposed in Pro 2.2. We’ll be continuing this pattern in future releases. Please note, if you have GeoAnalytics Server version 10.5 and Pro 2.2, you can only use the tools from 10.5, not the tools that were created at 10.6 even though your Pro version is recent. The focus of the new tools can be broadly categorized into a few groups: Classic GIS tasks (similar to join features, this could be something like appending data or applying overlays, as well as more track analysis to tie in with real-time data) More sophisticated analysis – we’re currently researching and working on machine learning and statistical techniques that are relevant to big data. Are there any tools or workflows you were hoping to use GeoAnalytics for? Please let me know if that doesn’t answer your question. Let me know if you’ll be at the upcoming DevSummit, User Conference, of Federal User Conference and I can recommend some sessions to attend related to GeoAnalytics. Sarah Ambrose Product Engineer, GeoAnalytics

‎02-05-2018

Hi Chen Chen‌ Thanks for your question. I have a few questions and suggestions to get you started: When you say you are trying to start GeoAnalytics Tools, how are you trying to start them? The correct way is to enable them through your portal > Organization > Edit Settings > Servers > Feature Analysis – GeoAnalytics Tools. If you aren’t setting them that way, can you please try that? (Step 8 here) If that doesn’t work, can you try stopping your ArcGIS Server service (on all machines with a GeoAnalytics Server)? In Windows 10 go to the Windows start menu > type services > Open the services desktop app > Select ArcGIS Server > Restart. After a few minutes try and set the GeoAnalytics server again. If both of these steps don’t work, can you please contact technical support? They will be able to assist you in troubleshooting the cause of this issue. Please let me know if that helped, or if you are seeing a new error. Sarah Ambrose GeoAnalytics Product Engineer

‎12-29-2017

Thanks for your response. If you are able to provide an example of documentation that you are expecting, I can try and prioritize writing it for the next release. In the meantime, if you’d like to send me an email at `sambrose at esri.com` with your case number, I can help look into this issue. Happy new year! Sarah

‎12-15-2017

Hi Christoper, Yup - you are right. The topic there was updated for 10.5 when standard tools did not yet have Join Features. That topic also covers 10.5.1 but it looks like we missed adding in Join Feature for 10.5.1. Good catch! I've just verified the documentation has been corrected for 10.6. As an alternative, and a great way to check what's new, you can also look at the What's New documentation here: What's new in Portal for ArcGIS 10.5 and 10.5.1—Portal for ArcGIS | ArcGIS Enterprise Let me know if you have any more questions, - Sarah

‎12-15-2017

Hi Christoper, Join Features is available with the standard analysis tools starting at ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5.1. You can read more about it here: Join Features—Portal for ArcGIS | ArcGIS Enterprise Please let me know if you have any more questions. Sarah Product Engineer, GeoAnalytics

‎08-15-2017

Hi Ryan, It sound like there may have been an issue upgrading your server. Did you upgrade all the machines in your GeoAnalytics server site? Did you unfederate your GeoAnalytics server before upgrading (you don't need to)? I would recommend calling into Esri Technical Support, they'll be able to do a better job supporting you in this case - where a screen share will be helpful. Thanks, Sarah Ambrose Product Engineer, GeoAnalytics Server

‎08-10-2017

Hi Justine, The quick answer is no, you can not run any Pro tool distributed on your GeoAnalytics Server. GeoAnalytics Server is a designated ArcGIS Server for distributed processing. You can run GeoAnalytics tools on that server (at 10.5.1 there are 11 tools that run on the GeoAnalytics server) outlined here. GeoAnalytics tools are exposed in and can be run from ArcGIS Pro, Map Viewer in Portal, the REST API or the ArcGIS Python API. All of those clients run GeoAnalytics tools on the GeoAnalytics Server. Only tools in the GeoAnalytics toolbox are run on the GeoAnalytics Server. If you were to open up ArcGIS Pro, and run the GeoAnalytics tool Create Space Time Cube, that would run on the GeoAnalytics Server. If you ran the Create Space Time Cube By Aggregating Points tool in the Space Time Pattern Mining toolbox, that would run the tool using the machine ArcGIS Pro is installed on. The image below shows the tools that are run using GeoAnalytics. These tools have specifically been developed to distribute the analysis across the cores and machines on your GeoAnalytics Server. Please let me know if that doesn’t clarify the situation. If you’re able to point to the help documentation or technical workshops that you watched that didn’t clarify this, please do and we’ll make sure to improve them for the future. Thanks, Sarah Ambrose Product Engineer, GeoAnalytics Team

‎07-25-2017

Hi, can you please provide a screenshot of the REST endpoint for the Generate Manifest tool. From your comment above I can't tell if the parameters are populating or not. What language are you running GeoAnalytics in? (OS, Server language pack, portal etc)? -Sarah

‎07-05-2017

Hi, Can you check the the parameters are available at the REST endpoint. To do this go to: https://<your geoanalytics machine.domain.com>/<geoanalytics web adaptor>/rest/services/System/GeoAnalyticsManagement/GenerateManifest There you should see a list of parameters (such as action, dataStoreItemId, and a few more). If you do not see these parameters, try and restart the GeoAnalytics Management tool box using admin at: https://<your geoanalytics machine.domain.com>/<geoanalytics web adaptor>/admin/services/System/GeoAnalyticsManagement then use the stop button, once that is comepleted, use the start button. If the parameters still don't show up please contact support, and we'll make sure to update the solution here once we figure out the problem. -Sarah

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