Latest Contributions by MattWilkie1

Is Geoportal useful for desktop GIS (ArcMap/Catalog, Pro, Qgis, others) in an environment where all users are in a local area network? We have about 10 TB of files on local network shares wherein spatial data is intermingled with many other types such as standard office files (doc, xls, pdf, ...). From what I read the discovery mechanisms in Geoportal would be useful, but we definitely do NOT want people doing zip-clip-ship of the interesting things they find. They should be accessing the files directly though UNC paths or mapped drives. ... View more

In an ArcGIS Pro layout how does one insert a globe overview inset in a map without having the service credits ruin everything? ... View more

It's  too hard to see the actual LAS point data coverage extent. A LAS Dataset shows only the tile footprint area until you zoom in so that only a few tiles are within the view frame. One consequence of this is that it's very easy to omit areas or think you have coverage when you don't. LASD says we have coverage in red and purple areas However actual LAS point coverage is incomplete We ordered data to cover areas left out of the original purchase. When accepting the order we thought it was complete because the LASD showed it that way. It was only weeks later when trying to actually use it that we discovered there'd been a mistake in the Area of Interest. It would have been trivial to clear up that mistake with vendor at moment of delivery. However with the passage of time it is now a whole new purchase exercise. Work around: For all LASD run Point Statics as Raster. For performance use a cell size an order of magnitude larger than the average point density (10m works well for our data). It would still be better to have a built in LASD option though. Relying on side-car rasters means care and attention is needed to ensure the raster stays in sync with the LASD contents. It could be rolled into Create LAS Dataset and Add Files to LASD as part of the generating statistics stage, following the model used for generating and consuming overviews for rasters. Fig: LASD tile boundaries overlain on a point-stats raster. We quickly and effortlessly identify the data gaps without any extra work. No endless rounds of zooming closer and panning and refreshes. ... View more

I'm trying to package a project. In Pro I've run "Package Project" wizard and fixed all the warnings and errors that [Analyze] showed. After pressing [Package] it runs for several minutes and then fails with a generic "General function failure". Here's the contents of the log file (emphasis mine): E:\Packages\ENV.461\Locale-contours.ppkx 12 ProjectPackage 2020-04-02 17:29:45 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Successfully wrote sharing info file E:\Packages\ENV.461\Locale-contours.ppkx 12 ProjectPackage 2020-04-02 17:29:51 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Creating thumbnail from map E:\Packages\ENV.461\Locale-contours.ppkx 12 ProjectPackage 2020-04-02 17:29:51 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: About to start the external packaging process E:\Packages\ENV.461\Locale-contours.ppkx 12 ProjectPackage 2020-04-02 17:29:51 Status: Pending StatusMessage: Sharing process started E:\Packages\ENV.461\Locale-contours.ppkx 12 ProjectPackage 2020-04-02 17:29:53 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Sharing process started E:\Packages\ENV.461\Locale-contours.ppkx 12 ProjectPackage 2020-04-02 17:29:53 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Successfully obtained a license from the licensing portal E:\Packages\ENV.461\Locale-contours.ppkx 12 ProjectPackage 2020-04-02 17:30:00 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Reading thumbnail from file E:\Packages\ENV.461\Locale-contours.ppkx 12 ProjectPackage 2020-04-02 17:30:00 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Packaging in progress E:\Packages\ENV.461\Locale-contours.ppkx 12 ProjectPackage 2020-04-02 17:30:00 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Creating a project package and saving it locally E:\Packages\ENV.461\Locale-contours.ppkx 12 ProjectPackage 2020-04-02 17:30:00 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Compiling packaging parameters E:\Packages\ENV.461\Locale-contours.ppkx 12 ProjectPackage 2020-04-02 17:30:00 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Initiating the packager E:\Packages\ENV.461\Locale-contours.ppkx 12 ProjectPackage 2020-04-02 17:30:00 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: The project package tool has started E:\Packages\ENV.461\Locale-contours.ppkx 12 ProjectPackage 2020-04-02 17:33:44 Status: Failed StatusMessage: General function failure ErrorMessage: General function failure E:\Packages\ENV.461\Locale-contours.ppkx 12 ProjectPackage 2020-04-02 17:33:44 Status: Failed StatusMessage: Failed to package. ErrorMessage: Failed to package. There's an older message here in the forums about packaging maps for ArcMap that said using arcpy sometimes shows more information. Sure enough, that's true here too: My script: import os import arcpy aprx = r"T:\ENV.461\Locale-contours.aprx" outdir = r"E:\Packages\ENV.461" outppk = os.path.join(outdir, os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(aprx))[0] + '.ppkx') print(f"Packaging {aprx} into {outppk}") p = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject(aprx) arcpy.PackageProject_management(p.filePath, outppk, 'INTERNAL') print(arcpy.GetMessages())‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ and results: Packaging T:\ENV.461\Locale-contours.aprx into E:\Packages\ENV.461\Locale-contours.ppkx Licensed For Developer Use Only Traceback (most recent call last): File "T:\ENV.461\scripts\package-project-01.py", line 14, in <module> 'INTERNAL') File "C:\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\management.py", line 10142, in PackageProject raise e File "C:\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\management.py", line 10139, in PackageProject retval = convertArcObjectToPythonObject(gp.PackageProject_management(*gp_fixargs((in_project, output_file, sharing_internal, package_as_template, extent, apply_extent_to_arcsde, additional_files, summary, tags, version, include_toolboxes, include_history_items, read_only, select_related_rows), True))) File "C:\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\geoprocessing\_base.py", line 511, in <lambda> return lambda *args: val(*gp_fixargs(args, True)) arcgisscripting.ExecuteError: ERROR 999999: Something unexpected caused the tool to fail. Contact Esri Technical Support (http://esriurl.com/support) to Report a Bug, and refer to the error help for potential solutions or workarounds. Failed to execute (PackageProject). The Packaging help page says this tool is available for all license levels.  Do you one of you wizards know how to find out what's really going on or should I open a support case? ... View more

I'm curious, how long does it take in your machine(s) for your scripts to get ready to start working? Put something like this at the beginning of some scripts and share the results. from timeit import default_timer as timer start = timer() from datetime import datetime, timedelta print('=== {}'.format(datetime.now())) start_arc = timer() import arcpy done_arc = timer() - start_arc print('--- import arcpy overhead: {}'.format(timedelta(seconds=done_arc))) #import os, math, ... #carry on with your stuff elapsed_time = timedelta(seconds=timer() - start) # get timer seconds and convert to hh:mm:ss print('=== Total Elapsed Time: {}'.format(elapsed_time))‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ After about a week and perhaps 30 trials in various circumstances the fastest time I've ever seen is 7.8 seconds, the slowest is 10.5, and the median is ~8.5. (updated code to run in py 2.7 and 3.6+) ... View more