GPS Mapping with ArcGIS for Windows Mobile If you have a license of ArcGIS for Desktop, then you are entitled to download and use Esri’s ArcGIS for Windows Mobile software for FREE! This two-and-a-half hour training video will help you assess if ArcGIS for Windows Mobile is right for you and provide with the training ...…
It is summertime – time to get outside and enjoy a PARK! Today’s blog is a news round-up of park-related news of geographic interest. Getting an Accurate Measure of Park Acreage Read about how GIS analysts working for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation discovered a major discrepancy in the acreage of ...…
Today’s video is a follow-up to our previous video presentation on how ArcMap aligns your data with projection on-the-fly. GIS Data Misaligned If you try to add spatial data that is missing its spatial reference information, you may end up with severely misaligned data. Fixing the problem requires that you first determine the correct spatial ...…
Customize ArcPad without Writing Code ArcPad comes with the ability to customize existing toolbars, create you own toolbar, and to turn on and populate the Favorites toolbar. It requires no code to turn on and populate the Favorites toolbar with the tools you want. In this short video, Michele GeoMattix shows you how to it. ...…
GeoMattix has entered the print advertising world! We recently placed a small advertisement in Esri’s ArcNews magazine. We wanted a picture that conveys GPS training so we decided to use a photograph of a hand holding a GPS unit displaying a colorful ArcPad application. Nothing particularly original but simple and direct. Aligning a Rectangle to a ...…
For today’s video blog topic, it’s back to the basics. Understanding coordinate systems and how ArcMap handles them is fundamental to a proper understanding of GIS. This is a topic a struggled with — a lot ! — when I was first learning GIS on my own. In this video, I will show you how ...…
Recently one of my clients installed a series of seven weather stations around their extensive property. The main purpose of the weather stations was to monitor precipitation to facilitate their monthly water reports required by the state. Also, the weather data was useful for management and planning. The weather stations were working perfectly. The problem ...…
With ArcGIS for Desktop version 10.1, Esri chose to no longer include the list of all projection files. They say it is because there are simply too many. You still have access to them, but they are not stored on your computer. The Problem For Trimble GPS Pathfinder Office Users, this presents a problem when ...…
Last week, I showed you how to perform a fake check-out for your ArcPad Trimble Positions data. Today I share with you a video that shows how to take advantage of the backup AXF file that is automatically created with Trimble Positions. It is an alternative to the fake check-out.…
If you ever need to undo all of the post-processing you’ve done to your ArcPad data then you will need to perform a fake check-out. In this video, I show you how it’s done.…
