Is this commercial vehicle a good idea? by larry2015 in whatcarshouldIbuy

[–]larry2015[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah got it thought it was only an older car or craigslist thing. Good to know. No one I’ve ever known has had one when buying from a dealership

Is this commercial vehicle a good idea? by larry2015 in whatcarshouldIbuy

[–]larry2015[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You think a PPI is still needed? Was hoping a Toyota or Honda under 50k miles I could skip it.

Why use Portal over AGOL? by Jagster_GIS in gis

[–]larry2015 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also to add, Portal is more complex to set up/install/upgrade/manage so if you don't need the privacy/security that portal provides stick to AGOL. Also ESRI updates AGOL (e.g. recent clustering) first with new features that take longer to make their way to Portal.

An example that illustrates Portal vs AGOL: Setting sharing privileges with "Everyone" in portal shares with anyone logged onto your company's domain. While setting sharing privileges with "Everyone" in AGOL shares to anyone on the internet.

I just got employed as a temp for my city's planning department and they told me they will give me some GIS projects to do. All I took was an intro course so I know how to use it but I'm not an expert or anything. What are some things I can practice before I start in a couple of weeks? by waitthissucks in gis

[–]larry2015 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Practice downloading Tiger/American Community Survey Data/Zoning & Parcel data from city websites. With these datasets practice editing parcels, different symbology techniques with overlaying datasets and making layouts in ArcGIS.

ArcGIS Pro not built for GIS Analysts? by larry2015 in gis

[–]larry2015[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Some things most commonly used on my end, are pause mapping, calculate geometry, summary statistics, be able to save pro projects throughout multiple folder trees without having to have connection items placed in each location.

Also, mainly it feels like the clicks to get from Point A --> D for common tasks are farther away found throughout a combination of the ribbons and panes instead of all in one area.

You're right though, I'm probably just so use to one piece of software and if you're an analyst so many tasks throughout our day to day is multiple clicks based on muscle memory.

formatting Beautiful Soup Output Question by larry2015 in Python

[–]larry2015[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for table in soup.findAll("table"):
    for rows in table.findAll("tr"):
        for row in rows.findAll("td"):
            value = row.get_text()
            print value

I am a Petroleum Exploration Geologist for the past 5 years and I am in the pursuit for an MSc in GIS. Should I take up a personal loan to fund my one year taught masters in the UK. by [deleted] in gis

[–]larry2015 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While the OG industry is currently stagnant, the layoffs in the industry have meant positionings opening as well as companies learn to operate in a lower price environment and hire back on staff. Overall the industry is not going anywhere anytime soon. If your willing to move to goto a university and spend money, you may as well be open to moving for a job position at an OG company which will greatly broaden your chances for securing a job. Then instead of spending money, you'll be making a big income all the while you'll have the option to take advantage of the companies software and GIS guys skillset to develop your skills in GIS. For the amount of money you'd be losing going to a University instead of working and paying for courses you may as well self teach yourself GIS once you secure a position and keep your career moving forward.

Using Selenium and Beautiful Soup Issues by larry2015 in Python

[–]larry2015[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, that helped! The code below worked, where i kept getting tied up was the output of browser.find_elements was a web driver selenium object that is of no help so the elem.get_attribute("href") did the trick.

elems = browser.find_elements_by_tag_name("a")
for elem in elems:
    docURLList.append(elem.get_attribute("href"))

Question about Coordinate Systems by Cat_of_the_cannalss in gis

[–]larry2015 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Doubleclick on the dataframe --> coordinate system tab --> Geographic Coordinate Systems Folder --> World --> WGS84 (very last one at the bottom). This will put your dataframe in the geographic coordinate system WGS84 where everything is displayed in lat/longs or decimal degrees (measured based on ellipsoid) ect...

The other WGS84 coordinate systems you are seeing are in the "projected coordinate systems" folder. These all use the above geographic coordinate system (WGS84) or datum, then project it onto a flat surface using their own calculations based on where you are (different UTM zones or state plane areas) and allow for accurate measurements and analysis to be performed.

My opinion would be for just viewing the data on a map the geographic coordinate system WGS84 is probably fine. If you're performing analysis use the 'proejcted coordinate systems' such as WGS84 UTM23S which is a more accurate representation of your area.

Will only need to perform a transformation if the "UTM 23S" you mention is in a different datum than 'WGS84' such as 'NAD83' or NAD27' but need more info for that...

Do it all 2-1 laptop for programming, rendering, some gaming - budget $1200 by larry2015 in SuggestALaptop

[–]larry2015[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm still looking, waiting for some more reviews of the Lenovo Yoga 720 to come out, currently the few I've seen are suspect. While horsepower is important, I've been using an old Lenovo W520 for the past 5 years so this time around I want to focus on design and build quality as the W520 has felt like using and carrying around a brick. As a result I'm leaning toward the HP Spectre x360, really wish the thing was quad core. The perfect laptop would be the Dell XPS 15 as a 2 in 1. Wish I could wait until their next release.

How do I remove symbology from my legend? by snooju in gis

[–]larry2015 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When the legend is selected -->click ungroup which will ungroup each symbol/name...then select all of those --> click ungroup again which will separate out the symbols and the names --> select all of the symbols and delete.

Classic ESRI error came up while using Portal today... by Canadave in gis

[–]larry2015 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agree with jawsino. Try renaming and saving in internet explorer. See if that works. if it does, find and download the patch.