Improve Adobe Reader map display
(original post date unknown. 2012 is close though.) It’s always bugged me that most maps in Adobe Reader turn our carefully selected colours and lineweights, […]
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A GIS geek since 1992 or so.
It’s all about the data
Very early in my GIS career, about 1995, my coworkers and I made a big map (3ft by 6ft at 1:250,000). It took several months […]
Continue reading »Increase Coordinate Precision Display while Editing
By default only 3 numbers are shown after the decimal point. To change the number of decimals displayed in Edit Sketch Properties look under Editing […]
Continue reading »Upgrading ArcGIS Python
Python 2.6 and ArcGIS 9.3 Install python 2.6, and the latest corresponding pywin32. Grab the arcgisscripting.py script written by Philippe Le Grand (taken from this […]
Continue reading »Improve Adobe Reader Map Display
It’s always bugged me that most maps in Adobe Reader turn our carefully selected colours and line-weights, optimised for best print quality, into a mishmash […]
Continue reading »Mapbook
DS MapBook is a visual basic 6 developer sample for ArcMap which simplifies the generation of map series (e.g. NTS maps). There is a project […]
Continue reading »Change symbol properties en masse
Ever been frustrated that you couldn’t change the properties for multiple ArcMap text or graphic elements at once? That only after converting all labels to […]
Continue reading »Attach python script to a button
From the ESRI-L mailing list: I recently summarized some research to see if a python script could be converted into a .DLL file and called […]
Continue reading »‘Open Table’ button for ArcMap
How to open a the table window for the selected layer or standalone table in the table of contents in ArcMap with a button. It […]
Continue reading »Batch Print Maps
Using ArcMap 9.x. @echo off :: print-all-maps.bat echo. echo. Printing all maps in current directory to default printer echo. echo Press [ctrl-break] to abort. echo. […]
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