Latest Contributions by RobertBorchert

I will surmise you have something like center lines from 3 different counties or regions etc.. Instead of using model builder perhaps you should simply use the the simple data loader. For the one that needs its coded values to be different you can create new attributes and update those attributes with the coded values you want. Hello all, I'm working on trying to merge three different road centerlines (different schema) layers into one layer in Model Builder.  I am able to do that but the only issue that I am experiencing is with one of the layers.  I am using domains in this layer and in the final outputted layer I need the coded value in one of the fields and the Description in a different field.  Does anyone have any ideas on how I would go about this? Thanks! ... View more

You  need to acquire a BING KEY to use bing road maps in your ArcGIS Online application.  www.bingmapsportal.com Greetings. I noticed today that my map application and my web-map are not coming up. I tried to load each from my contents page, and got an error message about Bing Maps: The map cannot be drawn because the owner has not provided a Bing Key for the Bing Map it includes. Can anyone help me get my map back up? ... View more

I think your best (if not only) option is exporting the data and fixing the issue.  I created a blank data set with 2 fields which have a domain with coded values. This layer was converted to a AGOL service. Tracking edits and restricted control were enabled. After a week of editing one of the users noticed a value was missing. This is a very time sensitive project. Can the missing value be added to the service in AGOL? Exporting the data, adding the value and re-creating the service is likely not an option. I have briefly reviewed AGOL help & this forum. Plan 'B' - use a place holder 'ZXC' and manually fixing the error at the end of the project. Thanks! ... View more

As far as I know the only way get it back is to NOT save it after doing the field calculator.  Unless you are in an SDE database than you may be able to recover it. The second best option is that have  made a regular back up of your data and to recover that recalculated column from the backed up data. How to ArcGIS 10 in attributive table restore data after replacing the field with the field? After using the field calculator? Please help, I lost a lot of data!! ... View more

You can get the key right online when using ArcGIS online. We requested it and got it in short order. Now when we go to add layer from Web it is there. When creating and setting up or ArcGIS Online account for our new online clients 3 weeks ago it was a visible option for us. Robert: Can you explain in detail how you were able to get the Bing key from Microsoft?  My organization has tried to get in touch with Microsoft about purchasing the key (for over a month), but no dice. A direct line phone number or E-mail to a support person at Microsoft would be great to get around the bureaucracy of such a large organization. ... View more

Would it not be simplest to not upload the tiles you don't want? From ArcMap v10.1 I'm creating a tile package to upload to my ArcGIS Online account.  I'm able to set the largest scale level for tile generation, but not set the smallest scale level. I don't need the smallest scale levels, so is there any way to delete the unwanted tiles from AGOL?  I thought I would be able to delete them using the manage tiles button on the item details page but that just shows the number of tiles generated at each scale level.  No management options as far as I can see, just statistics. ... View more

You need to open your map as administrator. Click on Add to Add Content to Map. Add your new layer.  It does not automatically appear in the Map. make sure to share it when done if you need to share it. save your new map Hi everyone, i've been playing around with this program for a while and everything was great until about a couple of weeks ago.  now when i add content, certain service layers?, i can see them in the table of contents.  however, the layer is not visible on my map.  for instance, just now i added a 1939 historical aerial from a rigis map service layer.  I can see it in the table of contents window, but it is not visible on my map.  does anyone have any ideas why?  i've tried clearing the cashe and refresh and moving the layers up to the top.  some layers work but others don't.  i have IE and windows xp.  i'm sorry i'm not that literate when it comes to gis.  thanks for any help!  Rebecca ... View more

Look at the features properties in ArcCatalog It will fully tell you the type of field and various parameters for it.  Such as length of a string field or long or short integer or double precision etc... Hello I need to get the data type of a specific field, example field "NAME", not all fields of the Feature Class as does ListFields or Describe. Thanks:confused: ... View more

Is that a single raster or multiple raster datasets tiled together. If it is multiple try this. In your MXD open the layer properties for the first raster. Click on the symbology tab Whether you are using Stretched or RDB Composite there is a choice for Display Background Value. Check that box then instead of filling in a value click the as drop down box to the right and choose No Color as your background. What it may be is the edges of the individual raster datasets.  Essentially you make the edges transparent. Very common with multiple SIDS. The only way to REPAIR it that I can think of is to open the raster in an image editor and manually color it in.  Try that on a copy first in case something happens to the coordinates. Attached is a jpg file demonstrating our raster data. There are several holes (NoData or white cells) in the data that need to be repaired. The large white area in the upper right hand corner is supposed to be no data but all the rest needs to be filled in to its nearest neighbor. I realize that I will probably have to manually do the larger holes, but perhaps there is a way to fill in the smaller (read single) cells through automation. I looked at some of the generalization tools but I really only want to fill in the holes, not change the data that have non no data values already. Anyone have some suggestions as to how to approach this? There are so many ArcGIS tools out there, I don't want to miss the ones that I don't know about. Many thanks. ArcGIS 10.1 Advanced with Spatial Analyst license ... View more

You should have received an email from ESRI over a month ago talking about this. BING got their undies in a bunch about so many people using their maps and them not getting recognized. What you need to do is get a BING Key from BING. We got one for our ArcGIS Online application we are back up and running. In the new ArcGIS viewer for Flex, I am unable to add Bing base maps; they are not visible in the list (I added the Bing key under settings). Any clue why it is missing? I can still use an old app template which has bing base maps added, but not able to add to a new template. Thanks Thomas ... View more

Can you group them.  Normally symbols are a part of defining how a point, line or polygon looks.   Are you talking about something else? Hello everybody, I want to group multiple composite symbols so that I can move them as one unit on map. Is there any container to hold multiple composite symbols? Any idea to accomplish this? Any help or guideline will be very helpful and appreciated. I am stuck. Thanks. ... View more

Without analyzing your system I would say to much data. Look at your individual feature services in your my content folder.  If you have anything over 3 mb it could be an issue. Remember it is trying stuff all that data thought the 4G. Determine if any layers are useless and try to remove them.  remove as many joins or relationships as possible, if not completely.  strip it down to as bare bones as possible. I have several silverlight applications that open up very reasonably on the desktop.  We have some people who access them from the field, however, and it may take 10 minutes or more for it to initialize when they open it the first time.  I understand that of course we are subject to connectivity (accessing using verizon hotspots) but even in metro areas of 4G coverage, where it should be fantastic coverage, they are getting 10 minute times or longer just to open the application.  Is there anything I can try on my end to speed this up?  I have set scale dependencies on all layers, so they don't turn on until you are extremely close in, etc.  I am using Bing Roads (not imagery) as a basemap using their token, so I don't know if that also slows it down, vs the default ESRI basemap. Any ideas would be really, really appreciated. Thanks! ... View more

If nothing shows up there are a couple possible explanations. 1 There is a huge phantom feature that you cannot see that is zooming you way out. Add the dwg right click on the polyline later and open the Table.  Select a bunch of features and zoom to them. Do you zoom to some polylines.  Start zooming out from there and do you see your data? 2 the DWG does not have anything in it.  Did you export it first as a shape file or simply open it as a DWG in arcmap Even when I start a blank map and add the dwg data it doesn't show up. It must be that the drawing isn't georeferenced? How can I fix that? Thanks! ... View more

Do you mean the path to where the MXD is or a path to where the data associated with the MXD is. If you mean where the data associated with the MXD is. Start ArcCatalog. Navigate to where your MXD is.  Right Click on it and select Set Data Sources. Or inside or an ArcGIS session In the table of contents there should be a button to list by source.  And it will show you all the sources. Hy Guys, I'm new in python and I would like to know if there is a way to read the MXD path (e.g C:\temp\arquivo.mxd) ? I have to create a MXD, then open it and add some layers, I tried this: import arcpy, os mxd = file("template1.mxd", "a") mxd.close() mxd1 = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(mxd) df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd1, "Dados")[0] addLayer = arcpy.mapping.Layer(r"D:\Eduardo\Dados_teste\Temp\sanepar\TemplateFlags.lyr") arcpy.mapping.AddLayer(df, addLayer, "BOTTOM") mxd1.save() del mxd1, addLayer It works if the MXD is previously created but I'd like to create a blank MXD.  I don't know how to pass the mxd full path to arcpy.mapping.MapDocument. Thanks, Eduardo ... View more