Latest Contributions by EricRodenberg

Nathan,  this is certainly a complex problem,  I've looped in some folks from Esri Canada, so you should be expecting someone to contact you directly to help and provide direction. ... View more

Nathan, Yes I believe that Network Analyst can help you.  You will have to solve for multiple problems using Network Analyst which is not out of the ordinary.  It just might require multiple passes. You'd need to define service areas using the Services Area Solver.  The Service Area will allow you to balance the number of streets, major minor etc so that each dirver roughly has equal coverage. Then you would run the Vehichle Routing Problem on each service area section and you can weight your major roads so they are attened to fist. VRP was built for deliver orders that assigned to a set of routes but the order in the case might be point that are dropped on either side of a street at both ends.   The solver will honor vehilce capacities, driver specialites and delivery windows and you can configure to have the routes generated so you hit the order points on the right side of the street. There may be other factors to consider like closest facility if you have salt barns spread accross the city.  Your driver may be closer to another salt barn and factoring thier vehicle capacity would allow you to take into account a barn that my not be the driver's originating facility but a closer stop to where they are at the time they are expected to be reloading. As for GPS,  we are coming out with the ability to upload custom routes to Navigator for ArcGIS.  Navigator is a productivity app that provides on or offline turn by turn directions to an Andrioid, iOS or Windows phone.  Not sure when that capability will be released but it is coming.   Where are you located, I can get you in contact with an Esri Rep if you are in the US and I can get my thoughts to a technical resource on the Esri City/County Government team so they can guide you on what you need to do this. Eric Rodenberg ... View more

Steve,   If you haven’t already done so, you’ll need to create a Parcel ID.  That Parcel ID will need to exist on the parcels, the ownership excel spreadsheet and the photos should be named with the Parcel ID.<image format>.  We have a tool that lets you import your spreadsheet into a Geodatabase.  The you can create a relationship class from the parcel to the LIS spreadsheet using the Parcel ID as the primary and foreign key.  You can also load your parcels into the same geodatabase if you haven’t already done so.  Then you can add photos one of a couple of ways,  you can hyper link to they by providing a URL (web) or a path if they aren’t exposed to the web.  The other way is to load the images as Attachments in the geodatabase.  Attachments allow you to relate as many photos to a parcel as you want. We have a tool that would create a table containing the Parcel ID and the path to the image, then a second tool would load the attachments.  Here is the workflow…   Here are a series of applications geared towards Land Records and I’ve also looped in the ArcGIS Land Records team.  You can also work with the Esri Eastern Africa folks since you are an international customer. ... View more

Steve, Can you tell me what county you are with? I personally don’t support land records. I work as a Solution Engineer on the Esri Transportation Practice. I support State Departments of Transportation so I look at CAD and GIS integration which is where you posted this message from the DOT perspective. I look at Roads, utilities, culverts and ROW and how their design impacts planning engineers. We do have a Local Government Team and on that team we have land records subject matter experts who can help you. We also have a robust land records solution to help you manage you LIS. If you can tell me who you are with I can match you up with that team and help make the connections. Sorry I couldn’t be of more direct assistance, Land Records just isn’t in my wheelhouse. Eric Rodenberg Eric J. Rodenberg | Solution Engineer Transportation Practice Esri | 7775 Walton Pkwy, Suite 270 | New Albany, Ohio 43054-8202 | USA T 614-933-8698, ext. 5503 | erodenberg@esri.com<mailto:erodenberg@esri.com> | esri.com<http://www.esri.com/> ... View more

Are you using the Mapplex labeling engine... it looks like the labels belong to small sliver polygons.  I would look at stetting the minimum feature size for labeling... That will allow you specify an area.  Identify one of the polygon slivers and one of the whole polygons you can see on the map and compare the shape_area values.  Set the value to be larger than the sliver and smaller than the big polys and you should  be ok as the tool won't draw labels if they are smaller than the minimum label size. ... View more

Ellie, You’ll need follow a few steps, to get the labels to CAD annotation. 1. You’ll need to Create a File Geodatabase and import the shapefile polygons. 2. You need to label the polygons exactly as you described in your post. 3. If you don’t want to see the polygons you’ll need to symbolize them so they are transparent otherwise symbolize them appropriately. 4. You’ll need to set a reference scale<http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/map/working-with-arcmap/working-with-data-frame-reference-scales.htm> on your labels so they display at a fixed height and width at the referenced scale on the map. So if you want your text to appear at 12 point font at 1200” scale then you’ll set your font to 12points and your reference scale to 1200” or 100 feet. Then when the map or printed page map scale 100 feet matches the map scale the text will appear as 12 point font. If you zoom out to 2400” or 200 feet then the text size will appear as 6 point font. 5. Convert Labels to Annotation<http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/map/working-with-text/converting-labels-to-annotation.htm> 6. Convert Geodatabase to CAD<http://support.esri.com/technical-article/000008383> ... View more

Ellie,  when you get in today can you contact me directly, I'll help you get this worked out.  614-933-8698 x5503 ... View more

Any of the features converted from CAD could be turned into events. For example, Culverts were converted from CAD to a Geodatabase Feature Class. Once converted they could be passed into Locate Features Along Route Geoprocessing tool to acquire route and measure information and loaded into a Culverts Event Layer. In addition the converted culverts could be loaded into Roadway Characteristics Editor as a redline feature and converted to an event as well. Or I could directly load the CAD file into Roadway Characteristics Editor and place the culverts as events based on an overlaid CAD file. ... View more

By themselves Geoprocessing can support DWG, DGN, DXF, LAS, GPX, XLS, CSV, SHP, MAP, KML and more.  With the Data Interoperability extension from Safe Software that number increases to over 100 additional formats and grants access to Safe Software’s FME Workbench. ... View more

CityEngine does not directly support LiDAR data but it can support surfaces created from LiDAR.  If the Mobile or Stationary LiDAR data can be provided to an Esri client as LAS files then those LAS files can be turned into a surface that CityEngine can ingest and render. ... View more

I can deal with bad geometry by using the Geoprocessing Editing tools.  For example I can deal with overshoots and undershoots with the Snap tool.  A snap tolerance can be set (ex. 3 feet) and any lines within the tolerance  of an intersecting line can be snapped.  My CAD to GIS conversion script makes use of the snap tools to ensure that all centerlines snap.  Download and check out how they are used. ... View more

Create a CAD file Directory,  inside create a folder for each projected zone in your state.  Then take the ".prj" files for each zone and place them in the corresponding folder.  Rename the file esri_cad.prj.  For example in Ohio there are 2 state plane zones.  Ohio Stateplane NAD 83 North and Ohio Stateplane NAD 83 South I’ve attached a zip file with an example of how the folders should be organized.  Then place the CAD files that correspond to each zone in their proper zone folder. ... View more

The WebScene I shared in the CAD to GIS Integration Webinar was built from importing CAD layers to GIS features.  The GIS features were imported into CityEngine. Once the features were styled and symbology was finalized I published the WebScene to ArcGIS Online.  The web scene was published by Esri and the workflow is very well documented in our help system for ArcGIS Pro and CityEngine.  Here is a link to my WebScene which is an interactive web application featuring 3D features.  ... View more

Yes, any layer in a CAD file can be extracted and moved into the Geodatabase and the entire process is repeatable and can be automated via Geoprocessing.  Here are my scripts that accomplish the task of importing layers of a CAD file and converting to GIS features. ... View more