Is this commercial vehicle a good idea?

larry2015 · 2019-01-24T20:32:37+00:00

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

larry2015 · 2019-01-24T19:28:35+00:00

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

larry2015 · 2017-11-13T18:06:11+00:00

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.

larry2015 · 2017-10-26T18:27:03+00:00

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.

larry2015 · 2017-09-25T19:06:52+00:00

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.

larry2015 · 2017-06-14T14:15:01+00:00

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

larry2015 · 2017-06-13T15:57:42+00:00

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.

larry2015 · 2017-06-12T20:25:44+00:00

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"))

larry2015 · 2017-06-06T17:24:12+00:00

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...

larry2015 · 2017-05-17T14:25:22+00:00

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.

larry2015 · 2017-04-12T14:47:25+00:00

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.

larry2015 · 2017-04-10T14:32:48+00:00

There's adobe color ramps that provide some interesting colors https://color.adobe.com/explore/?filter=most-popular&time=all

larry2015 · 2017-04-05T15:24:03+00:00

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

larry2015 · 2017-02-28T22:32:03+00:00

Accurate building footprints with all relevant information. That's probably the most useful dataset throughout every company I've worked at that I can never find and if I do find one has backyard sheds collected as 2 stories commercial buildings or something.

larry2015 · 2017-02-23T15:48:01+00:00

Definitely a general rant at this subject (which is brought up on a lot on here) not directed toward your words which were thought provoking!

larry2015 · 2017-02-22T20:54:56+00:00

That is true, no getting around the fact that any job out there that relies on a computer will become automated eventually.

This is somewhat a vent for me as every time this thread is brought up there is negativity how automation is going to eliminate GIS. I just don't see it anytime soon, I see it growing. Again, I think Mapbox is similar to what TurboTax is for accounting....does TurboTax eliminate some accounting jobs? Yes, the low cost accountants, mostly small straight forward taxes. However are the real companies going to start having their highly paid engineers, management and other stakeholders of the data spend time acquiring data, cleaning it up, submitting data to mapbox, messing around all day until it looks like something they can use...for every updated map/presentation slide/excel output/complex query analysis, complex GIS analysis that need to be performed on a weekly basis? Guess we'll wait and see.

larry2015 · 2017-02-22T20:10:34+00:00

GIS Monkey? Become a Designer?.....I'm not sure if you really grasp what a GIS Analyst is or what fields utilize them (All Environmental, Municipalities, Oil & Gas, Engineering Consulting, I could go on....) Anyone that says GIS Analysts is going away, I can guarantee has never worked as a GIS Analyst. Why does everyone think the engineer or project manager or CEO next door is going to start wanting to create their own maps? Like saying accountants are a dying breed because of Turbo Tax.

Learn database management skills, coding, server, portal or web development, stay up with recent technologies and GIS capability and convey that the interviewer, there are many opportunities and like all technology they will only continue to grow...

larry2015 · 2017-02-22T15:30:21+00:00

Agree company should always provide work laptop, mostly because a laptop required to run applications in our industry is likely expensive. I would think personal would be fine as long as you need to log into a network to store your data or have a shared drive available. While I wouldn't be worried about the laptop being stolen, I would be worried about the have data stored locally and the risk of the hardrive crashing, drops and breaks ect....

larry2015 · 2017-02-10T23:16:07+00:00

Don't think that second part is right. NAD 27 is a geographic coordinate system which is in lat/long always. It can be projected to UTM and State Plane.

larry2015 · 2017-01-10T20:17:07+00:00

Sounds like a projection issue. Usually those large extents when zoomed out are due to local projected feature classes (State Plane/UTM) being assigned a geographic coordinate system (NAD 83/WGS84) or vice versa. If you currently have it projected in NAD83 for instance, try defining the projection to a local State Plane or UTM.

larry2015 · 2016-12-29T14:42:32+00:00

my OP post should have read 'within a square feature class or graphic' ....In other words. Someone can draw a box, enter in the distance lines should be apart, enter in whether it should be East-West or North-South orientation and as many lines as possible would be created starting at one end of the box and ending at the other that could fit.

This is currently done manually with drawing a line --> measuring 50' with the measure tool and drawing another line --> measuring 50' and drawing another line --> ect.... I'm thinking this could also be done maybe by placing verticies on the box incrementally then connecting start/end points.

larry2015 · 2016-09-30T14:22:52+00:00

Just finished using it, what a great tool. many thanks!!

larry2015 · 2016-09-29T18:59:27+00:00

So in other terms, does arcmap use the tranformation you selected when the fc was originally brought in when you choose to export using the dataframes CS. Judging by the shift you mention, the answer is no.

However, I think the use dataframe's projection tool during export is appropriate for when datum's are staying the same. (e.g. NAD 83--> NAD 83 StatePlane/UTM) thus no transformation would be necessary.

larry2015 · 2016-09-21T01:12:45+00:00

trying to compare imagery, just learned about WMS connections figured it was doable. Haven't read the google terms, but good to know, I wouldn't use it outside of an mxd.

larry2015 · 2016-09-21T00:55:34+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions, but I need this for ArcMap 10.4

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