Group Layers and The Flex Viewer
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Group Layer and the Flex Viewer
I had a large group in my Flex Viewer application. I wanted to be able to click the group on--but not have all the sub-layers render. Easy Fix! Re-publish your map with the group layer and the sub layers turned off.
Group Layers and The Flex Viewer
Group Layers and The Flex Viewer
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Excel 'Databases', Lat/Long, and UTM's
Any GIS Specialist worth his/her weight in salt must accommodate non-technical users of GIS information. For this reason, I'm pushing for more and more use of Microsoft Excel--where the spreadsheet holds the attribute information and I later join the spreadsheet to a Shapefile.
As a quick tutorial, here is my Excel<->Shapefile methodology.
Right now, I have two spreadsheets.
One spreadsheet holds all the attribute information for my records.
SpreadSheet1
And, in the same spreadsheet workbook I keep all of my point data.
SpreadSheet2
*Side note* I was given Lat/Long Decimal Degrees I used Oasis Photo to convert them to UTM's; I was having a hard time converting them in the GIS--but once again, a good tool for non-technical users!
In my workbook, I've named my two spreadsheets. This will make it easier for me to identify them when exporting them to a Geodatabase.
Double Click On the SpreadSheet to Change its Name.
Open the Spreadsheet in ArcCatalog, and Export it
:::#:::#::: After A couple Hour Melt-Down, I'm Back! :::#:::#:::
What I think just happened was...
1) I saved the excel as a 2007 format
2) Tried to Export it to ArcGIS Geodatabase--it failed.
3) Then I tried to open it in Excel--that failed.
4) I panic-ed, because it wouldn't open in Excel--ArcCatalog still had a lock on it.
5) Cleaned up all the headers--so there's no special characters, spaces, or so its not too long. Characters like: (,),(`),(!),(.),([]), Leading space, Non-printable characters. (Use Find/Replace to work your data over)
6) Resaved as an Excel 2003-2007 workbook--that worked.
7) Made points out of the xy data--some of them looked wrong!
8) Sweat and Sweat because I couldn't figure out what the projection problem was--there wasn't one (or at least nothing I did).
9) Figured out that the xy coordinates in the attribute table were wrong--but the points were still good (Always, double check your Attribute Geometry!)
Also, Use the function len(#cellNumber#) to find out how long the cell is, keep it under 255 ;)
Anyways...
The main goal for this database schema is to separate the 'Spatial/Spatially Derived-Data' from the other 'Nominal/Ordinal Data'.
So, the only data that I have in my feature layer is the basics:
In the feature-layer-attributes, only keep the bare-minimum of attributes. Keep 'Id' and 'Name' and other spatial information like 'xy coordinates' or spatially joined/derived data like 'Township/Range' and 'ManagementUnit'.
As a quick tutorial, here is my Excel<->Shapefile methodology.
Right now, I have two spreadsheets.
One spreadsheet holds all the attribute information for my records.
SpreadSheet1
And, in the same spreadsheet workbook I keep all of my point data.
SpreadSheet2
*Side note* I was given Lat/Long Decimal Degrees I used Oasis Photo to convert them to UTM's; I was having a hard time converting them in the GIS--but once again, a good tool for non-technical users!
In my workbook, I've named my two spreadsheets. This will make it easier for me to identify them when exporting them to a Geodatabase.
Double Click On the SpreadSheet to Change its Name.
Open the Spreadsheet in ArcCatalog, and Export it
What I think just happened was...
1) I saved the excel as a 2007 format
2) Tried to Export it to ArcGIS Geodatabase--it failed.
3) Then I tried to open it in Excel--that failed.
4) I panic-ed, because it wouldn't open in Excel--ArcCatalog still had a lock on it.
5) Cleaned up all the headers--so there's no special characters, spaces, or so its not too long. Characters like: (,),(`),(!),(.),([]), Leading space, Non-printable characters. (Use Find/Replace to work your data over)
6) Resaved as an Excel 2003-2007 workbook--that worked.
7) Made points out of the xy data--some of them looked wrong!
8) Sweat and Sweat because I couldn't figure out what the projection problem was--there wasn't one (or at least nothing I did).
9) Figured out that the xy coordinates in the attribute table were wrong--but the points were still good (Always, double check your Attribute Geometry!)
Also, Use the function len(#cellNumber#) to find out how long the cell is, keep it under 255 ;)
Anyways...
The main goal for this database schema is to separate the 'Spatial/Spatially Derived-Data' from the other 'Nominal/Ordinal Data'.
So, the only data that I have in my feature layer is the basics:
In the feature-layer-attributes, only keep the bare-minimum of attributes. Keep 'Id' and 'Name' and other spatial information like 'xy coordinates' or spatially joined/derived data like 'Township/Range' and 'ManagementUnit'.
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