Latest Contributions by RobertBorchert

Get a BING key for use with ArcGIS online and you will be good. https://www.bingmapsportal.com/ Apparently a number of ESRI personnel don't  even know this is possible based on the standard response they often leave for this question. Now that the Bing maps are no longer available, I started to convert my many maps from "something" hybrid into "imagery with labels".  I can save them BUT now the share with groups is not working.  Only option is to make public which is not desired. Is there a solution? ... View more

Not sure what you saying here.  Are you trying to open the mxd by adding a new layer or your trying to add data to the old mxd by selecting add a new layer from file. If you are trying to open the MXD you can do it simply by double clicking on it in Windows Explorer. IF you cannot add data to it then you should create a new MXD. Open your old mxd.  Start a new session and open a blank one. Go to the layout view of he old one and using the Select Elements tool select everything in one big sweep. Go to the new session in the layout view.  grap the existing empty Data Frame and slide it aside.  Paste the selected elements into your new session. Delete the empty Data Frame. Save your mxd. It should now be fully compatible with a your version. I have an old .mxd file and not sure how old it is. I go to "add a new layer from file" on a map and it says that I can not open a zipped file or gps file. This file is neither of these files, it is .mxd. How can I open this file on ArcGIS Online? ... View more

Start your session.  Use the customize toolbars to add the Edit Vertices to your MXD Then simply dock it somewhere.  It is a default thing for it to pop up.  If you have tried doing things to it and it is spinning try resetting that toolbar first.  Then add it and dock it. I do parcel edits daily and until today have never had the edit vertices toolbar popup when I start to edit a parcel or line. I have not updated anything on my computer nor on ArcMap today or yesterday. I have tried everything I know to try to turn it off so that I can continue to edit as I have previously done.  I have unchecked it on the editor options and turned it off on the toolbar list on the customize tab.  My ArcMap project is running extra slow also today and I assume that this toolbar has something to do with this also. Typically, when I click a parcel or line, the item will be selected almost immediately, but today when I select a parcel or line the project just sits and spins. ... View more

Are your features in SDE? If it is in SDE make sure you have the feature dataset registered as versioned. Have you compressed your database recently? Compress your data base if you have not done it in a long time. When you don't compress your database it gets very large over time and trying to remember all the past events can cause issues. Are your polygons in a topology or parcel fabric? If they participate in a topology this can sometimes cause issues. ArcInfo, ArcEditor or ArcView? Do you have snapping on? Try it again but hold the space bar down. That disables snapping. Is it doing it to every polygon or just some? If it will not cut a polygon try exploding that polygon.  You may have multipart polygons and that can cause issues as well. Sometimes there is a drawing error with a polygon where a line of it crosses itself.  The crossing may be so small you cannot see it until you zoom in really close.  Sometimes exploding solves this. Do you have a relationship for the polygon class? I don't think this should cause issues but it may. On two occasions, I have seen an error message while trying to cut feature class polygons. [INDENT]"The Cut Polygons task could not be completed. Field is not editable. Field is not editable. Field is not editable." [/INDENT] This error will not allow you to complete the cut to the polygon. This happened with two different sets of data in the last two weeks (one yesterday).  There is a work-around.  You export the feature class to a shapefile then back to a feature class.  We shouldn't have to do this -- its 2013 and we are using ArcMap 10.1 not 9.0.  An incident ticket has been filed with Esri -- I'll post back if they know of anything.  Let me know if you have run into this also.  FYI Editor Tracking is set. ... View more

It is quite possible that your un-projected shape file was never properly located. What happens when you don't project it and you just open it at the same time. You can try creating a geodatabase and make the dataset the same projection as the projected shapefile.  Then import the unprojected into the dataset and see what happens. I have 2 shapefiles, 1 is projected and works fine, the other os not projected. so i projected it (using 1st the define projection tool and then the project tool, importing the co ordinate syatem of the first). now everyting is the same except for the extent of the layers and now they wont show together. Please HELP ... View more

If you create two new fields in your feature table make the double precision fields.  One for X one for Y. In an edit session right click on the X field and choose calculate geometry.  From the drop down menu choose X coordinate of centroid.  Then do the same for Y I would like to calculate the centroid (x and y co-ordinate) of a polygon using model builder - ArcGIS 10.1 Standard. I don't have access to the tool Feature to Point as the standard licence doesn't allow this option and there doesn't seem to be a Calculate Geometry tool within model builder. Can anyone help please ... View more

What are you trying to change the color on? I think it would me the most simple to simply add an air photo background. if you click on the drop down arrow on the add data button.. Yellow Triangle with a Plus sign.  Go to Add Basemap and you will see the option to add air photography. If you add your buildings or some other part of your map first it will add the air photography as a back ground. Thanks for your comment robert, but i dont understand what you mean about air photo? only dem or terain data, or maybe air foto like lidar or other ortho image, i already have data building (polygon), sidewalk (polygon), landuse (polygon), road (polyline and polygon) dem and quickbird image, i realy confused how make the colour i mean the green colour which have a tree or vegetation in side. can you explain to me robert how make that? is it use cartography representation? ... View more

Try adding the polygon by itself in a session.  Does it add. Now add a landbase feature such as roads.  Does the road appear in the proper location in reference to the polygon? I am trying to upload a polygon file showing communities in Texas, but keep receiving the following message from Community Analyst: "This location is not in the country you selected and can't be used for analysis and reports. Change your country selection above and try again." The country is set to USA. The data has been projected in NAD_1983_StatePlane_Texas_South_FIPS_4205_Feet. I have tried reprojecting and reuploading the data but keep getting the same message. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! ... View more

The data can sort either alpabetically or numerically.  If you have numbers in your sort and letters it will sort alphabetically so your numbers will not sort properly. If you want to keep them in order when you split your best practice may be to start at the digitized beginning and split it while going down the line. I'm having a bit of trouble sorting a polyline feature class in the correct order. Basically I have a polyline feature calss with multiple features in it that form a single line. This feature class was produced by taking a single polyline and splitting it at specified points (using the Split at Point tool). The resulting feature class has multiple polyline features in a somewhat random order. What I need to do is re-order these feature classes from a start point at one end of the line to the end of the line. I have tried the Sort tool and that works some of the time, but not all of the time as occasionally the original line winds and turns a lot and that seems to mess up the Sort tool. Does anyone know of a simple way or tool to do this without having to get into any crazy Python scripting that manipulates the geometry? This seems like a fairly logical need, so I'm hoping there is a simple way to do it. Thanks, ... View more

How are you performing the clip. the easy way is to select your polygon and then from the editor toolbar select the editor drop down tab and choose clip Did you ever figure out a solution to this? I am getting the same error (ERROR 000438: Overlay not a Polygon) when I try clipping. One shapefile is a line geometry type and the other is a polygon geometry type. I tried the above solution, exporting the data and saving to a different folder, and new document. I am still getting the same error every time. Thanks. ... View more

Go to your layout view.  right click somewhere that is not a map element.  Select ArcMap Options. Click on the layout view tab.  There a window section for Snap Elements to: Hello, I have a bunch of small picture elements in data view that I'm trying to arrange, and they keep snapping to something (grid? I have no idea what) and I can't place them where I want to. Snapping is off (but this isn't in an edit session anyway) and all 'snap elements to..' are unchecked in the layout options (though I'm not doing this in layout view). I've tried holding down shift/ctrl/alt/ etc. while dragging, this doesn't work. Is there a way to stop this behavior? Thanks! ... View more

You may be able to create it quick and easy using online geocoding services. You should have a table that contains Address City State Zip Zip+4 if available Country the address should not have things like suite or apartment.  that should be an address2 field which you will not use. Start ArcGIS and add the table to the  session. Click on the list by source button so you can see the table. Right click on the table and select GeoCode Addresses. A window will pop up prompting you use select an address locator.  If you have a table like the one I specified select 10.0 North American Geocode Service or North American GeoCode Service.  You can select different ones and a window will pop up prompting you to select which columns have the required data. If you name them as the service looks for them(as I have them above) it should automatically find them. The more data you have the more accurate it will be. One of the drawbacks of geocoding is it is not 100% accurate.  It tends to get close but often will not be dead on.  There are more advanced methods of geocoding but they involve creating accurate center line data that has the address ranges in it.  And the smaller your center lines segments are the more accurate it is. Hi, I need to create xy points to represent certain facilities. The data I have to create these points are the following: Address data for the facilities which includes street address but no lat/long data A polyline file of the road networks. This includes the street name, direction, type, city, and census district info (e.g. code and names) Polygon map of FSAs I am uncertain of how many points I will need to create - it may be hundreds. Can I create these points quickly by using the road network data (if so, how?), or will I have to manually digitize all of my points? Is there a way I can tell ArcGIS to create the points for me along the road network polyline file? Thanks Cecilia ... View more

If you save a feature as a layer file it will save the color scheme based on how you have the colors done up in your symbology. you can import the symbology given that they basis for the color is the same. ... View more

Your over thinking it. Simply make your MXD into the projection you want to use.  When you create a new mxd it should automatically assign the projection to the projection of the first file you add it if has a projection. Hi, I have written a standalone application that will export Shape files but I need some help with the prj files. How can I write custom geodesy to the prj so that my shape files will load in ArcMAP whitout triggering this annoying "Geographic Coordinate Systems Warning" dialogue box? My current prj file looks like this (on one single line of course): PROJCS["MyED50NUTM31N", GEOGCS["MyED50N", DATUM["<custom>", SPHEROID["<custom>",6378388.0,297.0], TOWGS84[-116.641, -56.931, -110.559, 0.893, 0.921, -0.917, -3.52]], PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]], PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",500000.0], PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0], PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",3.0], PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",0.9996], PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",0.0], UNIT["Meter",1.0]] Does ArcMAP read the TOWGS84 parameter? (As listed here http://docs.geotools.org/stable/javadocs/org/opengis/referencing/doc-files/WKT.html) When I manually define a custom datum transformation in ArcMAP, the "CreateCustomGeoTransformation" tool will show this syntax: GEOGTRAN(METHOD('Position_Vector'],PARAMETER['X_Axis_Translation',-116.641],PARAMETER......... Can I use this syntax in my WKT (=prj) file instead of the TOWGS84 parameter? I don't want to adopt the ESRI or EPSG naming / numbering scheme. I want full flexibility for custom definitions - it should work even it's not already defined by ESRI or EPSG. Is this possible? PS: I know that particular shift is already predefined in ArcMAP - I'm just using it as an example. BR, Leifster ... View more

this map looks like a combination of an air photo and polygons that represent different features. First create individual feature classes for each type of feature. From what I can see here I would say building, sidewalks and it looks like roads. You can also create a polyline feature for the roads as well to make it easier to label. You open your air  photo first.  Then in an edit session you start to draw in your buildings based on the outline of the buildings in the air photo. Drawing the sidewalks like the image is the same but a little more tricky.  I would draw portions of the sidewalks so you can leave the open areas open then just merge them together when you are done. It also looks like the drew in the roads.  What I do for roads like this is I draw a center line down the middle of the road. I then include a column to designate the width of the road as measured from the center line.  i.e. a 60 foot wide road would measure 30 feel from center.  I then buffer the roads based on the road width field. Looking closer like under the Pauley Pavilion ( they spelled it Pavillion on their map) it looks like they drew some features in with lines. [ATTACH=CONFIG]23819[/ATTACH] I wanna ask how to make map like esri campus map like picture in above? ... View more