1. Right click on the data frame and click on data frame properties.
2. Navigate to the Coordinate system tab and select a geographic coordinate system to project the data frame.
3. Apply the settings and click Ok.
4. Open the Attribute table for the feature for which you wish to calculate the X and Y coordinate system.
5. Add two new fields named as X and Y respectively with data type as double/float.
6. Start an editing session within the edit toolbar.
7. Right click on the X field and click on the calculate geometry option.
8. Select the property as X coordinate of the centroid and under the coordinate system choose the coordinate system of the data frame.
9. Check the correct units used to create the data and click on Ok. The X coordinate of the data will be calculated.
10. Right click on the Y field and click on the calculate geometry option.
11. Select the property as Y coordinate of the centroid and under the coordinate system choose the coordinate system of the data frame.
12. Check the correct units used to create the data and click on Ok. The Y coordinate of the data will be calculated.

Good luck!

Easy steps to follow when editing points or lines in Arcmap:

1.) Open ArcMap

2.) Add your basemap and shapefiles that you want to edit

3.) Turn on Spatial analysis under ‘Extensions‘

4.) Begin an edit session

5.) Add your snapping toolbar and check ‘vertex snapping‘

6.) Add the Spatial Adjustment tool to the toolbar. Go to the ‘Spatial Adjustment‘ menu and click Set Adjust Data.

7.) Then it’s required to specify if you want to adjust a select set of features or all features. Click ‘All features in these layers‘. Then make sure only your desired layer to edit is checked.

8.) You’ll then need to open up the Spatial Adjustment menu again, navigate to ‘Adjustment Methods‘ and check ‘Rubbersheet‘

9.) If any additional options need to be set for Rubbersheet, then select ‘Options‘ from the Spatial Adjustment menu, click the general tab then Rubbersheet, this will allow you to see additional options

10.) Then Click options, Natural Neighbor then OK

What the roads look like before editing.

Place the anchor on this intersection, since I want to keep this point constant. This ‘anchor tool’ allows you to “lock” that point while still moving and manipulating other points and lines.

Using the Displacement tool, click on the line or intersection you want to move, then drag to the desired location. The ‘New displacement’ tool allows you to shift to the desired location. It works in function with the anchor tool.

After you placed your moves, click the ‘Spatial Adjustment’ menu then click adjust. This will shift your feature to the designated locations, as displayed in the picture above.

Good Luck and happy mapping

• Load your road and alleys files into a new geodatabase, and create a new feature data set containing the roads and alleys feature classes.

• Set up some attributes in both the roads and alleys files that will be useful in the future steps.

• Create a new field in the attribute table of both of the roads and alleys files to distinguish them from one another. (You can assign a 1 to roads, and a -1 to alleys in that new field, or label one as roads and the other as alleys, etc.)

• Use the Merge tool (data management tools–> general–> merge) and input the roads and alleys shapefiles as the inputs for the merge. Be sure to give the output a proper name save it to the correct folder you are using.

• Add the new merged layer to the map document after the process is complete.

• Use the same process as above to select all of the alleys from the merged dataset.

• Use the Extend Line tool (Tools–> Editing Tools–> Extend Line) using your merged file with the alleys selected. You may choose to select an extend length that will only extend lines within that distance of another line, or chose not to enter one, in which case it will extend until it reaches another line no matter the distance. (Be sure to uncheck the extend to extensions box.)

Good luck and Happy Mapping

A main Tips and Tricks I learned early in the process was that their website wasn’t 100% step by step, which meant I had to figure out what each step meant. The website below is where to find ESRI’s step by step guide to setting up a geodatabase in PostgreSQL.

Where to find the standard creation instructions:

ESRI SDE database creation

Lance’s Tips and Tricks

1. When installing the geodatabase on an already created SDE then you have to go under the ArcGIS folder in the ArcSDE folder in the start menu and select ArcSDE for PostgreSQL Post Installation. They don’t tell you this until step 6 when it should be put at the beginning and say something like “If you already have PostgreSQL already installed please skip to step 6.
2. Write down the step by step instructions you did to create your geodatabase because if you forget the superuser or any password you will lose everything on that geodatabase. Not because you forgot but you won’t be able to access it and edit it.

Okay now that should help, good luck an happy mapping

• In ArcMap, add your data you wish to add to the collector.
• Search for the “enable attachment tool” (data management tools)
• Run the tool on your file.

• Create a service to be used on ArcGIS.com.
• Make and save a map.
• Log into your ArcGIS account on the collector application.
• Select your map

The region in Wisconsin and Illinois, also called the State of Ingenuity (SOI) Region, took a hit in 2008 with the flooding of the Rock River that summer.  This region includes Walworth, Rock, Kenosha, Racine, Winnebago, and Boone Counties.  These counties that surround the Rock River took an economic hit which effected businesses in this region.  The State of Ingenuity was created with help from the Economic Development Administration in 2010 in efforts to develop new industry, grow and strengthen businesses, and create jobs in this region.  The State of Ingenuity helps start and build businesses by providing marketing, prototyping, expertise, connections, business analysis, and much more.

The Solution:

The State of Ingenuity needed a way to display the businesses in this region to make this area more desirable for growth in population and economy.  We were able to successfully display the regional assets including services, restaurants, and shopping centers, and the business demographics to show changes in business over the past few years.  Below are links to maps for the region.

Election day is tomorrow and we all need to know where we vote

Use the link below to find your polling place

Where do I vote ?

To begin, set the extent and any base maps you wish to use for the application, as well as the map Div for your application. This example uses Dojo, so add the following to your script section:

dojo.require("esri.map");
dojo.require("esri.dijit.Popup");



The starting extent and base map should be together under an initialization function (i.e, function init() {} ). We will then set up the popup window using the code below.



function init() {

var popup = new esri.dijit.Popup({
 fillSymbol: new esri.symbol.SimpleFillSymbol
 (esri.symbol.SimpleFillSymbol.STYLE_SOLID, new esri.symbol.SimpleLineSymbol(esri.symbol.SimpleLineSymbol.STYLE_SOLID, new dojo.Color([255,0,0]), 2), new dojo.Color([255,255,0,0.25]))
 }, dojo.create("div"));

map = new esri.Map("map", { infoWindow: popup, extent: initialExtent});

We will now create the identifuy

The code for this function can be copied and changed for each feature layer you wish to toggle. Only the function name, variable name (e.g, featureLayerB) and the URL need to be changed for each layer.

Now, create the function to hide all layers but the layer you wish to show. This is a relatively easy task, since we can use functions for ESRI’s Layer class that are not explicitly for the Feature Layer class. Let’s say we have 4 feature layers, B through D. To hide all layers except layer B, create the following function:



function hideElseB() {
featureLayerA.hide();
featureLayerC.hide();
featureLayerD.hide();
}



Since we only want to show featureLayerB when this function is called, layers A, C, and D need to be set to hidden. Note that this function does not call featureLayerB to be visible- the feature’s initialize function does this. Both of these functions will be combined in the next step.

In your HTML body, create a div to hold the buttons to toggle your layers. I used Dojo buttons for this example. Add a button for each layer you want to toggle, using the following code:

button dojoType=”dijit.form.Button” onClick=”initUphamOne(),hideElseB();”>First Floor</button

dojoType=”dijit.form.Button” calls styling and code to use a Dojo button. OnClick is where both functions are combined. The first function, seen earlier, calls the feature layer into the map. The second function, separated by a comma, hides all other layers. The ‘First Floor’ text is what appears on the button itself.

The example application can be found here: Toggle Function Sample

Just a note: the feature layers are accurate, but the basemap is a somewhat inaccurate test service. We are aware of the discrepancy. The sample also features mouseover tooltips, which were not covered in this sample.