Latest Contributions by RobertBorchert

Have you tried creating your tables as geodatabase tables instead of as excel. then you can use the data loader to add new data to the existing table and you can use a query in the data loader to specify what gets loaded. ... View more

did you upgrade your database to 10.2 in ArcCatalog. I have MXDs that open in 9.3, but not in 10.2.  The rasters were initially stored in SDE, but have been moved to another location.  The MXDs should still open with broken data links for the rasters.  What is causing the MXDs to open in 9.3, but not in 10.2?  When attempting to use 10.2, the MXD either crashes or attempts to open the MXD until Task Manager forces ArcMap to close.  Even more perplexing is the rasters within the 9.3 MXDs point to the initial SDE connection and the rasters display.  How can the 9.3 rasters display after the have been moved from the SDE connection? ... View more

Open it in MS Access and create a find duplicates query. You can then make a new table from the query and export the new table as a .csv which you can bring into ArcGIS. ... View more

don't know. I am in 10.2 and it worked fine for me. ... View more

they are all equally fine.  I would suggest that you right away convert them and put them in your database. You may also ask if they can give you shape files instead. ... View more

http://chinadatacenter.org/DataCategory/DataCategory.aspx?type=2 ... View more

http://china-archive.library.tamu.edu/datasets/chinaarchive/Geospatial/General%20GIS%20Data%20Sets/Data/ ... View more

First create two new attributes for your polygons. Make them Double they will represent latitude and longitude.  I normally them Xing and Ying Now right click on the Xing column and select calculate geometry.  Choose X coordinate of Centroid.  select also the Units.  I prefer Decimal Degrees. Do the same for Ying now from the table view export your polygon layer as a text file. bring that text file back in and right click on it and select display X,Y data. It will create an Event Layer.  Export that event layer as a shapefile or to a geodatebase.  it will carry along all the attributes of the parent polygon. How do you create a new point at the center of polygon?  Thanks. ... View more

If you do not have to have it feature linked then do it without being feature linked. In fact you can create it non feature linked and then create a relationship based on the FID after. You may also  be better off not moving it in the layout view.  May work better to do it in the data view.   Set your reference scale on the data view so everything is in the proper proportion. Several other things you can try. try it as non feature linked. turn off snapping compress your database Run Defrag on your computer Run Disk Cleanup on your computer. If you are doing it via a network transfer the data to your local hard drive, unless your in SDE in which case leave it there. Run Disk Check on your computer It may also be a computer hardware issue.  A few months ago I adjusted thousands of annotations on our system and it goes smoothly.  Annotation uses a lot more resources than dynamic labeling because it is like a polygon. Some people go crazy using Annotation.  Determine if there are some features which can get buy with dynamic use that more. Does anyone know if it is possible to stop ArcMap refreshing the data view or layout view whilst editing annotations? I currently have a task which require hundreds of annotations to be manually repositioned, this process is being slowed down by ArcMap constantly refreshing. All none essential layers have already been turned off which does speed things ups somewhat however if I could stop the view refresh after each reposition the task would be much quicker. Any suggestions more than welcome Cheers David ... View more

I had a similar issue.  What I ended up having do to is create a new features that I called Label Leader and LablePoint I put them in a geometric network so they would stay connected. I then labeled off the point and drew the leader in the way i wanted it. Hi, I am trying to label my point features with long and straight leaders. I am using ArcGIS 10.1 and using Maplex and I have tried various combinations of options available for leader but I could not succeed. Would any one help me how to get the leaders like shown in attached screenshot. Regards, Navin ... View more

Can you use the Georeferencing ToolBar?  I am not certain if it requires a specific extension. Add your CAD data to your drawing. Zoom to the area where you KNOW your cad data should be. From the Geoprocessing toolbar select the cad feature type you want to georeference and select fit to display. then using knows referenced points from the CAD and the GIS use the Add Control Points on the toolbar to select a known CAD location first then the known place it should be. The select a different CAD location (preferably some distance away) then the the the place it should be. It does not show up in the proper location. It shows up far away and is rotated differently. ... View more

Do you have AutoCAD? It is very quick and easy to georeference in CAD I won't reply with my long answer as it won't matter if you don't have CAD ... View more

I hope I can respond without to much confusion. You have a unique identifier for each cow?  I will assume the sample data you posted is for one cow for this. I will use the local time.  I reformatted your data in excel such that Local Date is column E formatted as date Locat Time is Column F  formatted as time Latitude is I Longitude is J Distance ended up in column M (but will not be used) I added 3 new columns LatitudeTO  in column N LongitudeTO in column O TimeAtLocation in column P Assuming your data is sorted by date and time earliest to latest and all data is for a single cow. In cell N2 (LatitudeTO) put in  =I3 In cell O2 put in  =J3 In cell P2 put =f3-f2 These will populate your to X,Y and time a location 1 Drag these formulas down to the bottom of the spreadsheet. Now save your data a .csv  this is important because it will embed the formulas as actual data. Open your .csv up and delete the last entry.  There will be no to x,y or time at this point because it is the destination. bring your .csv into your ArcGIS and use the X,Y to line and the Lat and Long attributes.  After your done you can also generate a point feature from the same table with the original lat long.  You can symbolize the points with the time at location attribute. Keep spaces out of the column headers to make things smoother.   Also, remove the W and N designations  and make sure there are no spaces in the lat long columns. I have some data as follows: INDEX RCR UTC DATE UTC TIME LOCAL DATE LOCAL TIME MS VALID LATITUDE N/S LONGITUDE E/W HEIGHT SPEED Distance 1 T 9/27/2013 15:24:34 9/27/2013 8:24:34 0 SPS 46.299584 N -105.973519 W 832 m 0.059 km/h 0.00 m 2 T 9/27/2013 15:25:34 9/27/2013 8:25:34 0 SPS 46.299511 N -105.973503 W 835 m 0.003 km/h 0.00 m 3 T 9/27/2013 15:26:34 9/27/2013 8:26:34 0 DGPS 46.299497 N -105.973463 W 838 m 0.027 km/h 8.27 m What they would like is a line with graduated colors so they can tell the route the cow took in their travels. They are putting a GPS unit on cows on Tuesday and removing them Friday so each file has about 1713 lines of data. I would like to make a line with points and somehow number the points or make a graduated line that turns from say red to blue so they can tell where they started and ended and how long they stayed at certain points. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Diona ... View more

If you have another machine in your office that has the fonts installed just go to the Fonts folder and zip up the ESRI fonts. You can  unzip them to your computer and install them.  Some of our clients also use NISC and their font set and it works for them as well. ... View more