Latest Contributions by EugeneDashiell

There is another issue here which has bothered me because much of my work is out of range of cell phone service, or is in locations where the roaming or local service charges are very high, prohibitive. That issue is the movement to the cloud which may be great for areas where cell service is ubiquitous, and data plans are no more costly than plans for dumb phones. I suppose ESRI is moving to the cloud as is every other major IT firm, but for a specific group of users, this is not a benefit, which raises the question, why pay for it? There is a lot of data being served, but for my situation, very little has relevance. ... View more

If you do not pay/maintain your license I imagine you lose your rights. Somebody has to pay for the service. The larger issue here is the business model, the cloud, competing software and hardware. This is a very big company and their customer service model is not designed to meet the needs of individuals, but rather of large organizations. We must be grateful that such good software is even available to us, but many of us are not pleased with what seems to be a loss of service to the user. Increasingly some other software options are emerging, and I expect this trend to continue. Can this company respond? I suspect not in the way we might wish. ... View more

Hi all, I have been using, recently, a Juno 5D. I got it because of the faster processor and beautiful display. I intended to use it either by itself, or as a data collector with my ProXH, thus replacing my Nomad. Here are the problems I have had: a) cannot manipulate ArcPad with my fingers. I got some different types of styli, and found one from RadioShack ($20) with  the smallest tip....it works....fairly well, but not really well. I took off the screen protector because I could not get the device to respond well with it on.      In the field the other day, during light showers, when the screen is damp/moist wet, I found that the touch screen is even less responsive.      But, the weirdest thing of all is that the device "lost" a few points that I was sure I had collected and saved. How can it do this? I never experienced this happening with an HP PDA, a Recon or a Nomad. It lost about 3 or 4 points our of 12 days work of maybe a couple dozen points.  Nothing fancy in my data, not showing images, only a few background points and a simple 5 sided polygon for the site, only 44,000 sq m. How can it lose a few points out of a data set? If it was just one, or maybe two, then I would think that I messed up, what with the rain and attendant difficulties.      I went back to using my Nomad, I much prefer the positive response of the device to the hard stylus. For me, I don't think that the Juno 5D is truly a reliable or viable tool. I was in Saipan, a long way from home or a dealership, and lucky I brought a couple of redundant systems (Nomad/ProXH, two Garmins, etc). ... View more

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Arcpad 6 and 7 were relatively intuitive and functioned easily in the field.....which is what we need. Arcpad 8, 9 and 10 became increasingly esoteric, almost as if the programmers needed something to do which would appear creative, innovative and artistic. Along the way we seem to have lost the practicality required in the field where light glares on pastels. ... View more

Where is data manager tool bar in arcgis 10? ... View more

In ArcPad 10, you can approximately a lo-res device by using the QuickDraw icon (the one that looks like a rocket, last icon on the browse toolbar). On Advanced Settings > Display Quality you can tune the QuickDraw coarseness by moving the slider. The meaning of the slider for your VGA device is as follows. Coarseness 0 - Original Resolution (i.e. VGA 480x640) Coarseness 1 - Half resolution (i.e. 240x320) Coarseness 2 - Quarter resolution (i.e. 120x160) On Layers > Table of Contents there's the QuickDraw column for your layers. Clicking on that column for your layer, will control the visibility of your layer, i.e. invisible, to wireframe draw, to normal symbology. These settings should improve your ability to operate your data on a hi-res device. Aloha and thanks for your help. Clever tool, I like it, and maybe it will help, BUT now I have several layers displayed which I do not have turned on (enabled). Also, after setting the tool to coarseness 1, I loaded the images which were giving "low memory" and at first got a "low memory" message then that "low memory" message has gone away...that's good!  But, I still have those layers which are turned off, displayed....that's bad/weird. What's up and can you fix it for me? ... View more