Latest Contributions by MattWilkie1

Hello world, Anyone know of software that's capable of digitizing hand written field forms with results that are worth using? Field observation form with table of handwritten data and coordinates in degrees, minutes seconds. MS Office "copy text from picture" fails miserably. I've tried a couple of online services that allow demos without going through a tedious sign up process but they were only marginally better. Many numbers were recognized, but without the table structure so it comes out a jumbled mess. Recommendations? ... View more

Where do you save python scripts and modules for re-using across multiple projects? That you yourself work on? That you share with colleagues? I'm not asking about how to share python modules or modify PYTHONPATH and so on. I'm interested in what conventions have you settled on as practical for your general operations in ArcGIS Pro. For example, I save my batch and powershell scripts that are used for general system maintenance in C:\bin. The corollory for tools that I and co-workers share is Z:\Tools\bin. Both of these are in PATH. Having settled on a location, how do you make them available across projects? To yourself? to co-workers? As above, my question isn't about the technical how to package scripts but the practical day to day use of them. ArcGIS Pro defaults to extracting under "C:\Users\USERNAME\Office365_Onedrive_ORG_NAME\Documents\ArcGIS\Packages" which is a horrible path to refer to repeatedly. What's your alternative? High value scripts can be added to a project toolbox and then "Add to New Projects" and be always at finger tips. What about things that are less polished? Something that does useful work but the doesn't warrant the overhead of adding parameters and tool validation etc. to make it a 'tool'.  Lastly, how do you work with other python projects that are not ArcGIS? Do you resign yourself to using Pro's built in Package Manager and cloning? Or just stay inside what's given and not reach for new cool things in python 3.11 and 3.12? I've tried installing Anaconda/Miniconda alongside Pro (the built in one is dreadfully slow). I made a mess of things that wasn't straightened out completely until I got a new machine. Maybe an isolated experience though, there is a way to dance together cleanly, and I just fumbled. Thanks in advance for your thoughts and experience. ... View more

Packaging will refuse to progress if the history has errors (https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/packaging-error-00246-history-items-with-errors/m...). This idea is to (optionally) allow packaging even if there are errors.  Often the errors are the very reason for sharing a package, to see if someone else can solve or reproduce the issue. (Besides, I often encounter history packaging errors for items that are merely warnings, "output will be overwritten" for instance.) (post edited based on responses to increase clarity) ... View more

The ArcGIS Pro tools Rubbersheet and Transform do similar things: modify the shape geometry of features in a feature class to more closely match a target, with the target shape being specified through a series "old position --> new position" coordinates. Rubbersheet: Modifies input features by spatially adjusting them through rubbersheeting, using the specified rubbersheet links, so they are better aligned with the intended target features. Transform: Converts the coordinates of input features from one location to another through scaling, shifting, and rotating based on the transformation links between known corresponding control points. The language in Rubbersheet help is more approachable while Transform is academic or engineering level but I don't really see what the difference is. I mean, I understand they use different algorithms, but assuming either's link line input are at at hand, so what? How to choose between the methods? What things should be thought about? What are the tradeoffs? ... View more

I don’t normally broadcast the many bugs I find but the consequences of this are severe enough to warrant planting a caution flag. I stumbled into a way to break Windows, using ArcGIS Pro without any special manoeuvres or contortions. ------------------------------ DON’T DO THIS: On launch select “Start without a template”, followed by: Save project, and choose the project’s Home Folder to save within (instead of browsing ‘This PC’ to someplace sensible) ------------------------------   SYMPTOMS Pro window stays open but doesn’t respond. It can be force closed. Eventually Windows becomes sluggish doing certain things, and some programs crash with no error, but otherwise operates more or less as usual for days. Things get bad when the user signs out or restarts the system: After reboot, sign in takes half a minute plus, and then desktop is non functional: flashing screen, only Start button and task bar visible, all else black. Ctrl-Alt-Delete to access emergency menu and signing out works. An alternate user can sign in successfully, and Windows appears to function normally. Using Microsoft repair tools such as System File Checker (SFC) and Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DSIM) are not successful in repairing the system, though they may report success. Backing up the computer will probably fail (depends on tool used and whether it images hard drive or copies files).   WHAT HAPPENED “Start without a template” opens a project with it’s Home Folder set inside the user profile TEMP folder. On save Pro copies contents of this temp folder into the new saved location. If the user saves the new project inside the Home Folder an infinite loop is created, where destination is inside the source. Pro creates recursive folders until reaching NTFS file system max limit until user force closes the unresponsive program or it finally crashes. Any program which attempts to traverse or manipulate that file tree will probably crash. This includes Windows Explorer. Verify this bug has happened by inspecting contents of Pro temp folders in the user profile. Example: C:\Users\mhwilkie\AppData\Local\Temp\ArcGISProTemp36464\Untitled\try2\try2\try2\try2...   REMEDY There is a small and clean solution. It is not necessary to restore a previous system image or back up. Sign in as alternate user with administrative privileges to the machine and ability to take ownership of other users’ files. Open a Powershell console and use rmdir command. Do not use Command Prompt (cmd.exe), it will crash. Be patient, the process can take a long time (over 20 minutes on my machine). rmdir C:\Users\AFFECTED_ACCOUNT\AppData\Local\Temp\ArcGISProTemp*   Esri has confirmed the bug. If you wish to follow its progress login into My Esri and navigate to Support > Bugs and Enhancements > BUG-000158898. This affects at least Pro 3.0 and 3.1, the two versions I tested. I suspect this reaches back to when the “Start without template” feature was first introduced in v2.3. ... View more

Can someone please share or point me to an offline map in S123 example or demo that works as-is?   We've been trying for days to get something to work without any success. We've tried web maps prepared using ArcGIS Enterprise web UI and ArcGIS Pro mobile map packages. We've tried data sources from hosted feature layers to stand alone images to Esri Living Atlas layers. We've tried manually copying .mmpk files to the S213 maps folder in the device. Nothing works. As soon as the device goes offline whatever map we've prepared disappears and all that is drawn is feature-less grey background. We've tested iOS and android devices, young and old. If we study something that works built by someone else maybe we can pinpoint what we're doing wrong. Sources consulted: https://doc.arcgis.com/en/survey123/desktop/create-surveys/preparebasemaps.htm https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/latest/use/take-maps-offline.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_8C6055E984D34AF4A25B989DDCAACF87 https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/manage-data/take-maps-offline.htm https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-blog/survey123-tricks-of-the-trade-configure-a-map-for/ba-p/1169513 https://bioticssupport.natureserve.org/support/solutions/articles/255162-create-offline-basemaps-for-use-with-observations-survey-survey123 Thanks. ... View more