Latest Contributions by ChrisMathers

Have you tried a topology rule of no overlap? ... View more

HA! Thanks. Its funny that someone else asked the exact same thing I did. ... View more

What is the error message that you are being given? ... View more

This is already available. On the far right side of the layout toolbar is a button that puts you in draft mode. This turns all objects into rectangular frames that you can interact with without haveing to draw over and over. If you go the an layout objects properties you can change it so that it will show up normal in draft mode letting you see the legend and such as you will on the map while the data frame stays in draft. You dont even have to leave draft mode to export, the map will draw to file normally even though it is displayed as draft. ... View more

Sounds like gjc.org. Not the best site design but Ive seen ESRI jobs listed there. And they have a geographic search function. ... View more

I would use a regular expression to scan the list of fields returned and grab the ones that you want, write those out to a new list. Take that and feed it into a for loop to get the values and add em up. I know some people dont like regular expressions though because they can be a big pain. fields=gp.FieldsList(featureclass) newlist=[] for field in fields:     if re.match('^AGE', field)<>None:         newlist.append(re.match('^AGE', field)) while row:     value=0     for field in newlist:         value+=row.getvalue(field)     row.Setvalue(newfield, value)     row.UpdateRow()     row=cursor.Next() ... View more

I have been curious about the same thing. I think we may have to wait for arcpy in Arc10 to add files to an open map from python. ... View more

I asked the same recently and was told I would need to do count=gp.getcount(file) then count=int(Count.getOutput(0)) because what you are given as a result of the getcount tool is a geoprocessing result object not a number. I didnt actually need to though. For some reason doing count=gp.getcount(file) then featurecount=count worked fine. I really dont know why as that should make featurecount just another link to the result object. ... View more

Are you needing to run Moran's I at multiple distances? You could write a python script that would wrap the Moran's I tool in a function with the distance as an input. Then simply call the function over and over feeding it the new distance each time. You wouldnt get a grapical output, though the python tool my export a jpeg or something Ive never used Moran in python, you could write the output to a file or the python interpreter. I feel like I heard that there will be a multi-distance Moran tool in Arc10 though I may be wrong or it may have been dropped. This will do a multi Moran and write the output to a file. oldout=sys.stdout def MoransMultiI(distance):     all the Moran's I code     gp.getmessages() sys.stdout=open(somefile,'w') MoransMultiI(10 or whatever) MoransMultiI(15 or whatever) sys.stdout=oldout ... View more

The export from model builder doesnt work right off the bat. Its kind of a wonky deal. You need to go throuh and clean up the script. For one it the data you are pulling from is probably feature layers in an mxd so you need to make sure that the paths point to actual feature classes. You would probably also do well to reduce the number of variables. The model builder export has tons of variables that point to the same few feature classes and dont need to be there. This is something ESRI needs to work on. Most people assume that the python export will work with no modification and it wont. if you post the code people may be able to help get it running ... View more

Well you have two, lets call them tool sheds. One that is full of system toolboxes and one of any toolboxes you created. The My Toolboxes shed is at the bottom of the file tree in Catalog. Have you looked there? ... View more

I dont believe there is. I think there is that functionality in 10 with the new arcpy module. ... View more