Latest Contributions by NeilAyres

Is "AdminUser" a user in that portal? ie not coming from AD. ... View more

If the feature in the mdb is an empty line feature class (check with Catalog), you may be able to use the "load" function. In what format is your input data, you saying it comes from CAD, but is it still like that? Anyway, once you have the input sorted, right click on the target in Catalog, and select the option "load data". This dialog also gives you the opportunity to map input and output fields. ... View more

On the subject of datum transformations... If you don't know about projections, then transformations are another whole murky swamp. The datum, in my way of thinking, defines the location of the origin of the coordinate system relative to a position of the earths surface. We used to have a whole bunch of "classical" datums, those whose primary point is a physical beacon build by geodesists / surveyors in the 18th century. These tie a ellipsoidal model (a flattened sphere) to that point with a known orientation. Everything is measured from that. Then along came GPS. The WGS84 datum is an ECEF (earth centered, earth fixed). Its origin point is the gravitational centre of the planet. A transformation is a numerical method to alter the coordinates from one datum to another. In NAm you have a enormously detailed set of various transformations from your old classical datum (NAD27) to your more modern one (NAD83, which is almost but not quite, the same as WGS84). The GIS cannot make that choice for you. But, mostly these days, you wouldn't have to worry about it. Nearly all of your data will already be based upon NAD83 / WGS84 anyway. So no transformation is needed to get the data to align correctly. ... View more

What we did recently to get round the ecw publishing issues was... Create a tiling scheme appropriate for the data. Set the origins etc and use jpeg. Tool : Data Management / Tile Cache / Generate Tile Cache Tiling Scheme. Then use Manage Tile Cache to generate a tile cache somewhere on your local disk. Copy this to the server in a registered data space. Publish (share) it as a map service, let it be managed dynamically. Worked well. ... View more

How do you know that the centroid is not within the polygon? Where is this data coming from? ... View more

In editing, doesn't clip feature do what you want? ... View more

Well, something like this will split a text string into bit sized bits... >>> veryLongText = "ahdsgs hdfgsdt jshsst ktpoiyus lorhsjks lsoshft dfagwqrt" >>> textLen = 10 >>> while len(veryLongText) > 0: ...     newText = veryLongText[:textLen] ...     print newText ...     veryLongText = veryLongText[textLen:] ...     ahdsgs hdf gsdt jshss t ktpoiyus lorhsjks lsoshft df agwqrt >>> ... View more

You originally said this ( see my comments in red😞 " I've a table with paths like: R:\Daten\geo_daten\GEOLOGIE\bodenuebersicht\daten\arcview\bodeneigenschaften\shape\bodeneigenschaften.shp and want to copy this Feature somewhere else and delete in the location where it is? What's wrong? import arcpy, numpy  arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True  InPath = r"R:\Karto\Geodaten_Archiv.txt"  # This isn't a path, it is a file OutPath = r"R:\Daten\geo_daten\geodaten_archiv\SIC_2016_04_07"  filename = open(InPath, 'r')  # not using this arr = arcpy.da.TableToNumPyArray(InPath, "Datenpfad")  # why are you converting to a numpy array ??? for line in arr:      print line      arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(line, OutPath) # there is no file specified Here you point to a shapefile : R:\Daten\geo_daten\GEOLOGIE\bodenuebersicht\daten\arcview\bodeneigenschaften\shape\bodeneigenschaften.shp Then you read from a text file in your code??? If you just want to copy a bunch of shapefiles from one location to the other, you could do something like this : import sys, os, arcpy inPath = "some path here" outPath = "some other path here" arcpy.env.workspace = inPath shpIn = [for f in arcpy.ListFeatureClasses() if f.endswith(".shp")] for shp in shpIn:     arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(shp, os.path.join(outPath, shp)) All this, more or less from : Copy Features—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop ... View more

See Dan's post. I think we need more detail on what you have done, the data, and what you are trying to achieve. ... View more

So is the business analyst data coming from an esri online service? I guess so, since the frame defaults to "Web Mercator". But for output, do you not switch to your local coordinate system, state plane or whatever it might be? ... View more

Well, an hour for 8mill records, that's a bit over 2000 records a second. I recently had to process a large text based lidar point set, to a point feature. Used python / arcpy. But it did take well over an hour to write out 12+mill points. Which I didn't think was too bad. Perhaps consider buying some fasted hardware. ... View more

What is your reason for having the data frame in Web Mercator? Because it's only purpose, as far as I can see, is to be able to display web maps of the world. So it is not very good at scale or area (or anything else projection related). So your decision the have your base data in GCS_WGS84 is fine. Nothing will happen to that, even if your df is set to Web Mercator. The data will still be captured in the coord sys of the source. As Dan says, this can cause confusion, if a user starts edit a new dataset but is not aware of the coordinate system that they are looking at. And a picky point to Rick... Data is never IN WGS84. Because WGS84, by itself, is not a coordinate system. It is a datum, geoid & ellipsoid, but not a coordinate system. GCS_WGS84 is a coordinate system, geographic coordinates based on the WGS84 datum. Could have many multitudes of other coordinate systems, UTM, State plane, zillions of others, all based on the underlying WGS84 datum. I have lots of experience with data based on various "classical" datums. Then you need a "transformation" between the two. Remember, it's ON not IN. ... View more

Phew... I'm really glad I just stick to python / arcpy.... ... View more

3d analyst tools If it is a Point feature ie no Z but you have an attribute with the elevation / height, use Feature to 3d by attribute. If it also has no Z but you have a digital elevation raster somewhere use Interpolate Shape. ... View more