Latest Contributions by RobinWhite

(1) You can get the geography data from the census bureau's pages, visit  https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger.html/​ and look for block groups, and counties for New York.  You can retrieve shapefiles or geodatabase layers from that resource. [Edited to add this correction:  visit Geography - U.S. Census Bureau for shapefiles and geodatabase content] (2) I would recommend the American Communities Survey (ACS) data if you want recent data you can cite (at this date probably the July 1st estimates for 2014, I have not checked to see if the 2015 estimates are available as yet)--unless there is a requirement that you use PL data from the 2010 census.  Both are available from the census bureau's web site, http://factfinder2.census.gov.  A guided search will have you find county-level population estimates in a first step and in a second step, allocation to "All counties ["within New York" in this case]. Retrieve the result table and working in ArcMap or ArcGIS Pro, join it to your shapefile (I would recommend file-based geodatabase as a more robust option for storing the counties or block groups).   In rendering the map you can normalize total population by area to produce an up-to-date map.  This approach involves a little work, but avoids the vagaries of looking for a prepared dataset or map, which may be out-of-date or based on data other than census 2010 or the 2014 July 1st estimates. best regards -caminante (Austin, Texas) ... View more

Thanks! Mystery resolved, that explains it. I developed the JavaScript and CSS working with later versions, for ArcGIS Online.  That has been kept current, references v. 3.14 and works perfectly.  Portal for our version of ArcGIS (10.2.2) was brought in later.  So (for example) a message to the effect that color.js is not found (error 404) makes sense, as it is consistent with the fact that esri/Color was added at 3.9. Of course, it would help if I could persuade our own support staff to let us go ahead and work with 10.3.1. best regards here ... View more

All the apps we've done so far implement the CDN--this one is exceptional in that we're working with Portal instead of ArcGIS Online.  I will follow your suggestion and find out what version we have, and whether we should replace the library with version 3.14. thanks -r.w. ... View more

I'm just now working with a new ESRI book, "Getting to Know Web GIS", by Pinde Fu. The examples and exercises contain references and tasks don't match what I have (I installed the SDK, also v. 1.1).  Is there a more recent version available that might mach the exercises presented in this book?  I've been able to puzzle it out so far, but don't want to wander too far afield. ... View more

One excellent book is published by ESRI, called "Python Scripting for ArcGIS," by Paul Zandberger, ISBN 978-158948-282-1 (first ed. 2013). cheerio ... View more

Thanks, Derek!  I needed that reassurance before testing. much appreciation here --robert ... View more

It turns out we needed to rebuild the back-end server to address this issue.Live and Learn! Robin WhiteRound Rock, Texas 78680-1492tel. 512 924 1180 ... View more

thanks--I'll try that! -r.w. ... View more

I have administrator privileges as an organization member, but am not the Portal administrator who sets up Server and the Portal software themselves--also, I should have mentioned that this is 10.2.2 I nevertheless appreciate your reply!  thanks -robert ... View more

Are you referring to false easting?   If measuring in linear distance (meters, feet) this can have the effect of making coordinate values smaller, giving a little more precision and making arithmetic a little easier.  Our organization implements a Lambert Conformal Conic projection that subtracts 1,000,000 meters from values for UTM meters. NAD_1983_Lambert_Conformal_Conic Authority: Custom Projection: Lambert_Conformal_Conic False_Easting: 1000000.0 False_Northing: 1000000.0 Central_Meridian: -100.0 Standard_Parallel_1: 34.91666666666666 Standard_Parallel_2: 27.41666666666667 Latitude_Of_Origin: 31.16666666666667 Linear Unit: Meter (1.0) Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1983 Angular Unit: Degree (0.0174532925199433) Prime Meridian: Greenwich (0.0) Datum: D_North_American_1983   Spheroid: GRS_1980     Semimajor Axis: 6378137.0     Semiminor Axis: 6356752.314140356     Inverse Flattening: 298.257222101 This same method is implemented in the state plan coordinate system, for example NAD_1983_StatePlane_Texas_South_Central_FIPS_4204_Feet WKID: 2278 Authority: EPSG Projection: Lambert_Conformal_Conic False_Easting: 1968500.0 False_Northing: 13123333.33333333 Central_Meridian: -99.0 Standard_Parallel_1: 28.38333333333333 Standard_Parallel_2: 30.28333333333334 Latitude_Of_Origin: 27.83333333333333 Linear Unit: Foot_US (0.3048006096012192) Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1983 Angular Unit: Degree (0.0174532925199433) Prime Meridian: Greenwich (0.0) Datum: D_North_American_1983   Spheroid: GRS_1980     Semimajor Axis: 6378137.0     Semiminor Axis: 6356752.314140356     Inverse Flattening: 298.257222101 The two examples given here are useful for Central Texas (the Lambert CC projection given above is in wide use here)--although lately, the WGS Auxiliary Sphere projection is coming into more use as we move towards more work with interactive maps! ... View more

I have encountered this same issue in a modified version of the basic viewer and associate with a widget in Web AppBuilder that writes a set of selected records to a .csv file.  These worked in Chrome, and Firefox but not in Internet Explorer v. 11.  I discovered that reverting security setting to default values fixed the problem.   But, this is only a guess! ... View more