I am not sure it exist as I only have a limited experience (advanced beginner) but I couldn't see any tool in Arcgis 10.1 which automatically transform geographic  coordinates in a table from DMS to DD which are the ones to used within arcgis.

I know I can do the transformation within the table by creating a new colum and then performing a calculation with the field calculation  (this I learned by following chapter 4.2 and pages 135-140 of the book "GIS tutorial for humanitarian assistance"

(the book is excellent but should be update because of the new version of Arcgis 10.1; especially from chapter 5 which is a major topic, namely importing geodatabses and using schema, because at page 161, I discovered there is no more Schema Wizard in version 10.1 and so I am stuck with the instructions. What should I do in order to use SDI and public data? I web search revealed that I should use templates now...but I can't find a good and quick step-by-step tutorial)

Developer community needs an official ESRI .NET Arcobjects programming Book (C# and VB.NET).  The books that are available work with VBA and they are quite out of date.


Thanks a lot.

It would be great if, once a user is done with a course, have them rate it online. This could be done at the training center at the end of class, and also for the online classes. These ratings, and only these ratings by actual students that have completed the course, could then be seen by prospective students in the course catalog at training.esri.com. Let's face it, we live in a world where we don't purchase much without reading reviews online first, so why should it be any different with training, especially in the current economic market where training and travel budgets have been cut back wildly in many organizations. This would give potential students the ability to get the opinions of their peers and use that to judge if a course is right for them. Reviews could be placed in a "Reviews" tab with the Overview/Software/Outline/Prereq tabs on the course page and of course could be "sanitized" by ESRI before they get posted, just as many online merchant systems do.

Having finally changed all of our old MapBook projects to data driven pages, we have come across a problem when using the scale field to change the scale of a given page. The scale bar, which at 1:10,000 has divisions of 500m, suddenly looks ridiculous on the handful of pages that are 1:25,000. It was very disappointing to not be able to just go "File --> Export" for the whole set of maps. We still have to manually adjust the map elements for some pages.

We can't be having divisions of "623m" or having the number text all on top of each other  - This is what happens if you set it to "Adjust division value" or "Adjust number of divisions" now.

We need some sort of Data-Driven Element choice so that we can set Scale Bar (A) for scales of 1:10,000 and Scale Bar (B) for 1:25,000 etc.

It would be great to be able to have some of the Esri Press books (i.e. Modeling Our World) available in Kindle format.  I buy very few paper books anymore, including technical references, so it would be nice to have the Esri books as well even if some of the graphics didn't translate well.

Lecture and exercise manuals for Esri's instructor led trainining often contain great content not included in other Esri documentation. Please consider following Oracle's lead and publish these online for free in PDF format. Those without a training budget or time to formally attend classes will thank you.

While the classes themselves are terrific, and much of the value comes from instructor/student interaction (naturally), the training manuals are fantastic references. They would be great advertisements for the courses themselves (for those with training budgets who may not yet be convinced of their value).

This would also help students who've taken Esri instructor led classes in the past for a particular product but would like a refresh on the latest product iteration. It's often tough to justify taking the same course for a later iteration of the same product--and ArcSDE is a great example where you want to keep up.

The least you could do is disaggregate and sell the training manuals separately apart from the training. The manuals are that good--at least in the case of the ArcSDE classes, they stand very well on their own.

And finally... Giving a product away may not look great on a balance sheet. But consider the intangible value of more customers understanding complex Esri products more clearly and deeply. Priceless. Don't step over dollars to pick up pennies here.

I would like to move selected polygons throughout without having to pan or zoom to a new extent. Much like using the scroll wheel on a mouse. Say I am scrolling through a pdf and I press and hold the scroll wheel, I can move throughout the document without having to zoom in or out. Also, if I select a polygon and proceed to move it, I don't want to change the extent if I reach the edge of the viewing extent. I would be able to drag a polygon across an entire county without having to zoom out.

Would like to be able to add a raster to the catalog (managed/unmanaged) and then georeference the object or re-georeference the object to update it's spatial reference.

Why not to have the “Find and replace” tool in the “interface” of the attribute table?

As we have much space in the “interface” of the attribute table, I’m wondering why other commands are not yet added to it. For example the “Find and replace” tool is one of the most important tools that better to be stuck there!

 

 

Best

 

Jamal

I'd like to see ESRI offer organizations who are entitled to "free" UC seats (but can't use them) the option of using them instead to attend other types of training. This could include the paid online courses, paid ESRI instructor-led training held locally, etc.
The most equitable way might be to do it hour-for hour, so 1 seat at the UC (which is something like 45 hours of training) would entitle the user to 45 hours of some other kind of (usually paid) training for free.

• simplify the work of the developpers and give them an easy way to manage ESRI java jar libraries dependencies.
• use the standard way to distribute java jar libraries
• diffuse your libraries as marketing tool (Maven central)

Reference:
http://maven.apache.org/
http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-repositories.html

Linked requests:
http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/26125-ESRI-hosted-eclipse-update-site
http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/29897-does-arcgis-have-a-repository-for-maven?highlight=maven

It would be very helpful to make a short reference guide for people in the field. I understand the reference guide is available online, and that a pdf version has been made, but it is too long and detailed for a field guy to read through the whole thing just to take a point.
       There should be something short and simple like the following:

Page One: Starting Up: This would describe how to open an existing map, making sure the GPS is Active, making sure the GPS is ready to take a point, setting editable layers, etc....
Opening an existing project should be on top. If you want to go through all the "Create New.." or "Quick Projects", put them later on or in a different PDF, for the most part it just confuses field people.

Page Two: Data Collection: Show as simply as possible how to collect data on already established shapefiles. Create Polygon, Polyline, and Point should be shown with their methods of doing each one. As in part one, don't  have the directions of how to create one or do modules etc etc. Keep it short and simple, act as though the user thinks ArcPad is a thing Noah built to make the animals comfy. If you want to show the bells and whistle, make them as suppliments.

Page Three: Button Layout: Simply show a graphic of all of the buttons in ArcPad and their submenu's and what they are called. If it is not to confusing you could say what they do, maybe just the most used ones.

I wouldn't be against a 4th page for troubleshooting or correcting errors. Or something really useful to field people

What I am against is an overly complicated user guide that is complex and multiple pages long which Joe the Plummer refuses to read and calls me instead every time on a cell phone with no reception to walk him through how to just take a point.

It should also be easy to find and in multiple places on the ESRI website, not buried in a place where you find it only after multiple different searches.

Online and in-person ILT classes price many would-be students out of the market. There's no difference in price between online and in-class ILTs. As a hoop-oriented motivational poster exhorts: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." I submit: "You miss 100% of  the students you don't reach." (source: suprisingly good film port of Economist Steven Levitt's Freakonomics).

Sure, there are low cost virtual campus courses and no cost Live Training Seminars. These are welcome, wonderful and have their place in a total GIS education portfolio. But they don't match the depth or variety of ILT content.

Please consider converting some or all ILTs to a CBT format (Computer Based Training). These don't require the resources of a live instructor once published. Create once. Deploy everywhere. Yes, they'd be a lot less interactive (no instructor-to-student or peer-to-peer interaction). No problem. Adjust pricing according to your perception of value of the interactional deficit. If the interaction is a huge and proven value add, ergo CBTs should cost less.

My crystal ball tells me there's peril in the Road Ahead for local, state, and government training budgets. CBTs could help level out learning asymmetries.

To those new to ideas.arcgis.com, here are more ideas that may help those wanting to expand their GIS skills but can't afford ILTs:

Offer ArcGIS for Home at ArcEditor (Standard) license level--not just ArcView (Basic)
http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=08730000000bpaL

Include ArcGIS for Home with Esri Enterprise License Agreements (ELAs)
http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=08730000000bqGg

ArcGIS for Home: Could be a home run?
http://spatialdba.com/?p=68

Publish instructor led training lecture and exercise manuals online in PDF format - ArcSDE, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Desktop
http://ideas.arcgis.com/apex/ideaView?id=08730000000bmrJAAQ

Dana Nibby
GIS for DBAs. Database Concepts for GIS
http://spatialdba.com

In my occupation, I often have to refer to several different maps at one time. Having the split screen would be very helpful and make the process much faster. It would essentially be having two separate ArcMap documents open in one Window and being able to switch between the two easily and quickly. Each side having the same abilities as if it were the only one open. I feel this would be very helpful.

Go to  http://www.codecademy.com and check out how easy it is to learn python. If ESRI could build a training platform like that it would really help those of us who are trying to learn advanced concepts on our own. (No money for training).

For those who don't have time to click on the link, Codecademy is an interactive tutorial like training. You are given instructions on one side of the screen and then you have an in-browser workspace where you can try things out. There is not downloading or installing software. at the end of the exercise you try your skills but because it is all in the browser you can know in real time exactly what you are doing wrong.

If ESRI really wants to help the world, this is one way to do it.

Offer three levels of python courses.  An intro about basic gp and arcpy functionality similiar to what is currently offered, an intermediate course which would be akin to your current advanced course and an advanced course that teaches about useful modules that work with arcpy and gets us more involved with building our own functions and classes.

 At UC 2010 all of our name tags had data matrix codes on them which allowed vendors to scan us at their booths, but how about QR codes next year? There is a contact format for QR codes so that if a atendee scanned another atendees badge it would allow them to quickly add that person to their phones contact info. Some Android 2D Barcode scanners can read data matrix but it is slower and they tend to come in as plain text with inserted special characters for spacing showing up in the middle of the text. With most smart phones now able to read QR codes it would certainly save on business cards this summer.

As a part of my project on Inter-relation between network and land use, i need to analyse the road network in 75 different zones. i need to write a macro to intersect each zone with the road network, find the number of nodes and links of the network within each zone,length of the roads in each zones and calculate certain indices using formulae. Any help will be much appreciated.