Latest Contributions by RobertBorchert

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

What steps are you taking to add the DWG file? You should be able to simply add the dwg to an ArcMap session simply by using the Add Data Button. When you add the DWG do you already have other features open in your session.  IF you do and you don't see your DWG try this. Hit the Full Extent Button.  If it zooms way out you have an unreferenced drawing. If you go to full extent and it does not zoom way out... Start a brand new ArcMap session.  Add the DWG all by itself.  Do you see it now? Chances are your DWG is simply NOT georeferenced or not georeferenced properly.  Meaning that it is not situated in the real world.  That and it might not be to proper scale. I once converted a DWG for a client to ArcGIS.  Turned out the DWG was scaled so small that the entire system which should have been 30 miles across was about an inch in the real world.  It only appeared as a little dot. Hi all, I'm trying to import a CAD dwg file into ArcMap but when I do I don't see anything appear in the display. Also, the attribute tables for each layer (point, polyline, etc.) don't have any entries in them. Why is this happening?? ... View more

You  may need to use arc catalog and for each feature  set the default value for each attribute to nothing.  Essentially you are creating a new feature when you cut and it is making those values the default value. I use a graphical query to select polygons, cut the polygons with a border polyline and then remove "cut" polgyons outside the border polyline. Now, I need the attributes on the final result.  Any simple ways to do this?  Or, do I need another relation?    private function showSoils(event:MouseEvent):void    {     var cutPolyInside:Polygon = new Polygon;     var cutPline:Polyline = new Polyline;     geomArr = [];     geomArr2 = [];     geomArr.push(hostComponent.graphic.geometry);     var iPoly:Polygon = hostComponent.graphic.geometry as Polygon;     // convert the polygon into polyline for cutting     cutPline = polygonToPolyline(iPoly);     cutPline.spatialReference = new SpatialReference(102003);     try     {      queryFeaturesGraphical(hostComponent.graphic.geometry);     }     catch (error:Error)     {      msgVisible = false;      Alert.show(error.message);     }             function queryFeaturesGraphical(geom:Geometry):void     {      var queryParams:Query = new Query();      queryParams.returnGeometry = true;      var queryFields:String = "*";      queryParams.outFields = queryFields.split(",");      queryParams.outSpatialReference = hostComponent.map.spatialReference;      queryParams.geometry = geom;       queryParams.spatialRelationship = "esriSpatialRelIntersects";      var url:String = "http://gis.macombgov.org/ArcGIS/rest/services/FLEX2/Feature_Natural/MapServer/9";      var queryTask:QueryTask = new QueryTask(url);       queryTask.execute(queryParams, new AsyncResponder(onResult, onFault));          }         function onResult(featureSet:FeatureSet, token:XMLList = null):void     {              try      {                  for each (var graphic:Graphic in featureSet.features)       {          geomArr2.push(graphic.geometry);       }       beginCutting();      }      catch (error:Error)      {       msgVisible = false;       Alert.show(error.message);      }     }         function onFault(info:Object, token:Object = null):void     {      msgVisible = false;      Alert.show(info.toString());     }         function beginCutting():void     {      myGeometryService2.addEventListener(GeometryServiceEvent.CUT_COMPLETE, cutCompleteHandler);      myGeometryService2.cut(geomArr2,cutPline);     }         function cutCompleteHandler(event:GeometryServiceEvent):void     {        myGeometryService2.removeEventListener(GeometryServiceEvent.CUT_COMPLETE, cutCompleteHandler);      msgVisible = false;      var relationParameters:RelationParameters = new RelationParameters();      relationParameters.geometries1 = myGeometryService2.cutLastResult.geometries;      relationParameters.geometries2 = geomArr;          relationParameters.spatialRelationship = RelationParameters.SPATIAL_REL_WITHIN;      myGeometryService2.addEventListener(GeometryServiceEvent.RELATION_COMPLETE, relationCompleteHandler);      myGeometryService2.relation(relationParameters);     }            function relationCompleteHandler(event:GeometryServiceEvent):void     {      myGeometryService2.removeEventListener(GeometryServiceEvent.RELATION_COMPLETE, relationCompleteHandler);      var result:Array = event.result as Array;      // highlight the geometries within the polygon.      for each (var obj:Object in result)      {       var resultGraphic:Graphic = new Graphic(obj.geometry1);       resultGraphic.symbol = graphicSymbol2;       myGraphicsLayer.add(resultGraphic);            }     } ... View more

When you published the data did you enable editing?  Also do you have permissions to edit the data. I have published a Feature Service, however am unable to edit it. I try editing in ArcMap and receive two messages: "No editable layers" and "The workspace containing this data cannot be edited." I have registered the data source and versioned the geodatabase. What else may be the issue? ... View more

Where are you trying to create the new folder? I am using 10.1 and Windows 7 and it works just fine. Make sure you are not trying to create the new folder in a connected database. We've noticed a "feature" in ArcCatalog 10.1 on Windows 7 where if we select File-> Connect to folder from the main toolbar, then click New Folder button, change the "New Folder" name to one we want and hit ok, we get an error message: the path you entered is an invalid or non-existent directory. Verified ArcCatalog 10.1 on XP behaves correctly and connects the new folder. One possible workaround:  after "creating" the new folder name, cancel out of the Connect to Folder dialog, then bring it back up and you can then select the newly created folder.  Rather klunky. Just wondering if there may be an update coming soon that corrects this "feature" or how do I add this to the list of things to fix in a future update? Thanks ... View more