by dlengton | Dec 2, 2016 | Apps, Mobile, Tips and Tricks
This blog post describes how South African ID numbers can be verified mathematically in Survey123. South African ID numbers have the following format: {YYMMDD}{G}{SSS}{C}{A}{Z} YYMMDD : Date of birth. G : Gender. 0-4 Female; 5-9 Male. SSS : Sequence No. for DOB/G...
by Administrator | Sep 5, 2016 | Database, Geodatabase, Tips and Tricks
Recently I found myself wondering where exactly all the space on my hard drive was going. One day it was there, and the next it was gone. I did my usual Windows clean-up but still wasn’t happy with the outcome so I did a bit more exploring into the Esri side of things...
by Julian | Aug 20, 2015 | Desktop, Geodatabase, Tips and Tricks
Ever wanted to know if a certain field exists in a feature class or attribute table? This could be to either populate it with something if it does exist or create it first if it does not exist, then populate it. The easy steps below will show you how to check if a...
by richard@esri | Aug 20, 2015 | Tips and Tricks
The ArcGIS product stack can sometimes be overwhelming. Quite often I get asked if we “can do something” – before I even hear the “thing” my answer is yes! The challenge is always how to do it and with which set of tools. So, with all this amazing technology, we...
by Vee Naidoo | Aug 14, 2015 | Tips and Tricks
We are often faced with the challenge of having to create (or update) a vast number of domains within a Geodatabase. The common way to do this is through the Properties dialog in Catalog – but this is not helpful if you have tens or hundreds of domain values to type...
