Latest Contributions by AllenRisley

Hello, I have a shapefile I would like to import into Business Analyst/Community Analyst to use as part of a Smart Map Search.  I go through the steps of importing a shapefile, but then I get a warning/error message that says that the shapefile has more than 100 records so only the first 100 will be imported.  Not great, but I decide to proceed in order to see what I get. When I click on the "OK" button, nothing happens. That's not OK.  Any idea what is happening? Allen Risley GIS Specialist Cal State University San Marcos ... View more

I'm using Survey 123 Connect to create a tool to collect information on my college campus.  The World Topographic map does not have detail for our campus - just roads.  Is there any way I can display Open Street Map or Imagery basemaps?  I have selected them in Survey 123 Connect but they do not appear on my survey once it is deployed. Allen Risley GIS Specialist California State University San Marcos ... View more

I have added some images to answer choices in multiple choice questions using Survey123 Connect. The images are far too large and cause lots of scrolling for smartphone users. How can I get the images to display smaller? Thanks!! Allen Risley Cal State University San Marcos ... View more

I have created several surveys using the Survey123 web design tool.  When using the web tool and setting up a Geopoint question you are able to select a default map, set the home location, and set the zoom level for the map.  In Survey123 Connect I went to Settings/Map and chose the default map (OpenStreetMap) but when I run the survey on my smartphone I get a different map by default.  There's a thumbnail where the user can tap through basemap choices, but I don't want to have to explain this in the survey. It's important for our project that OpenStreetMap be the default map as it displays building footprints and labels for our campus, while other basemaps do not. Thanks! Allen Risley Cal State University San Marcos ... View more

I love that Survey123 automatically creates word clouds from multi-line and single line text responses.  What I don't like is that the word clouds include common words (articles, pronouns, etc.). that obscure the useful data.  Is there any way to customize these word clouds? Allen Risley GIS Analyst Cal State University San Marcos ... View more

I have a shapefile that I use regularly in ArcGIS Desktop (now 10.5.1) and the shapefile lines up properly with the ArcGIS Imagery basemap.  The shapefile is projection is Lambert Conformal Conic, projected coordinate system is NAD_1927_StatePlane_California_VI_FIPS_0406 .  When I add the shapefile to a map in ArcGIS Pro 2.0 with the ArcGIS Imagery basemap I get different results.  The features in the shapefile are shifted about 260 ft to the west. I'm assuming that this is a projection problem and that I need to reproject the shapefile, but I'm confused as to why the results would be different between ArcGIS Desktop 10.5.1 and ArcGIS Pro 2.0. Any ideas? ... View more

I have a student who is using ArcGIS Online to create a map for an assignment in my class, but is unable to share the map to "Everyone" or to our org.  She has saved the map to her My Content area from inside the map viewer and then clicks on the Share button.  This is what she sees: The Share dialog box does not give her an option to choose with whom to share.  Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Allen Risley Adjunct Instructor Department of Liberal Studies California State University San Marcos ... View more

I am teaching a course where I am using ArcGIS Online and Community Analyst Online to introduce students to GIS applications across a range of disciplines.  I have an assignment I am trying to trouble-shoot that is based on this great article on Esri Insider: What Do Americans Do on the Fourth of July Weekend? In the article, Praveen Srivastava uses Community Analyst to find high prevalence counties for three groups:  Outdoorsy People, Power Grillers and Shopaholics.  I led my class through the exercise of mirroring the article and finding similar groups of counties using the Smart Map Search tool.  No problem.  We all then shared our three groups of counties to our ArcGIS Online accounts in order to make a map containing all three groups.  Once again, no problem.  In order to create the map with all three layers we had to open each of the maps shared from Community Analyst and save the data layers, the create a new map and add the three layers.  No problem. Now for the problem.  And if you're interested in playing along, here's a link to the ArcGIS Online map that I am using: 4th of July.  The map and all of the data layers included in it have been shared to "Everyone". The next step was to use Derive New Locations to create a new layer that would only include counties that met the original Smart Map Search criteria for all three layers (Each layer has a field named "matchField"  that contains the data value "match" when a county meets the respective criteria).  As I was creating the assignment, I ran Derive New Locations and created a layer that has 99 records (counties), which sounds and looks reasonable.  That layer is named "Shopaholics, Power Grillers and Outdoorsy People".  I believe the Dereive New Locations query I ran is as follows (you can see a screenshot of most of the query in the attached pdf file): Shopaholics completely within Power Grillers, and Shopaholics completely within Outdoorsy People, and Shopaholics where matchField is "match", and Power Grillers where matchField is "match", and Outdoorsy People where matchField is "match". When the class and I worked through these steps during class it did not turn out as I had intended.  The layers that result from the query have thousands of records, rather than the 99 or so that I expected.  There are what look like duplicates of many of the records (lots of them).  I don't know whether I recorded the query wrong or the query is (for some unknown reason) now not working properly.  And if I did record it wrong, what was the query that created the layer with 99 records - which is exactly what I wanted? If you check out the map and the assignment you will see that I then intend for the students to append Tapestry data to the selected counties, create a Tabbed Map Series web app from their map and then include text that describes the layers/tabs.  (There are also some reflection questions listed on our LMI, to round out the assignment). I could really use some help with this. Thanks in advance, Allen Risley Adjunct Professor Department of Liberal Studies Cal State University San Marcos ... View more