Latest Contributions by AdminMcCormick-Taylor

There should be an override in the properties of graphics, text, and marker symbols in a map to either rotate with the map or stay at a fixed angle.  I know there are options in the ArcMap Advanced Settings Utility, and that is great for a general rule, but there are times when a marker or text needs to be the opposite of what is set.  This would allow us to keep labels as dynamic instead of having to change them to annotation or even have to make seperate MXDs for the different pages instead of using Data Driven Pages. ... View more

There should be some way to ungroup all the map elements that are grouped instead of having to select all of them and continually ungroup them until they are down to the simplest level. ... View more

The scale bar should have the ability to change units when it meets a threshold.  When using Data Driven Pages, the scales are different on every page, and it is not always best to display the scale in either feet or meters.  It would be nice if when the scale reached a certain point, that the user can enter, the units will automatically change to either inches or miles, or centimeters or kilometers.  This should work up or down.    ... View more

When printing withing Data Driven Pages, each page should spool by itself instead of all the pages spooling together.  Granted it is nice to see 1 file in the queue, but when there are memmory limitations, pages at the end are dropped and not printed at all.  This is also the case when exporting the series as a single PDF.  They should export each individually and then merge them so they don't all need to be retained in memmory and cause the entire process to fail when the size is too large. ... View more

The drop down scale within ArcMap, should stay with the customized scale list instead of defaulting back to the 10 scales that ESRI provides every time ArcMap is opened.  I know it is easy enough to reload the scales, but it is a pain to have to remember to do that every time. ... View more

The ability to overlay features onto Bing's Birds Eye view and Google's Oblique Imagery would be a great graphical enhancement.  This would be a great for demonstrations, and it would be nice to have this ability without having to use 3D analyst.  It may also be nice to take it one step further and give the ability to drape features on the street view. ... View more

The user should be able to customize the location of all the label items and not just choose from the default list provided.   ... View more