Latest Contributions by PatrickMurphy

You didn't  really answer the question. The question was, how do you open the ppkx file in ARCMAP. ... View more

Use X-plore from Google Play ... View more

Six years later and still NOTHING.  What an embarrassment for ESRI.    ... View more

90% of my fieldwork career has been in areas with no kind of coverage at all. No cell phones, no wifi etc. The only clouds were real clouds. Can you provide a little review of QGIS and QField? We might as well use ESRI as a forum for evaluating their competition and help people dump ESRI if they won’t support our license subscriptions. Pat ... View more

Great, but not a single word on the actual changes. Will labels, using any of the attributes, be visible on the screen like they are in ArcPad, for example. Who knows? Maybe this will just be another big letdown until the next revision 5 years from now. I hope for better but the past is the best indicator of the future in some cases. Ecotone Corporation Patrick Murphy 1554 North Street Boulder, CO 80304 303-444-4358 20080217v2smaller ... View more

Collector is so primitive compared to ArcPad. Can’t do labels for example. ESRI has let us all down. I was happy to pay annual subscription to have ArcPad, but dropped it since there is no real update. You have to pay for ArcGIS to Get Collector but there is not development for Collector to get it to the ArcPad level. This is shameful. Windows Mobile is really dead dead dead. Ecotone Corporation Patrick Murphy 1554 North Street Boulder, CO 80304 303-444-4358 20080217v2smaller ... View more

They may have introduced it, but have done a lousy job of explaining how it works.  I miss the old days of big manuals where you could look up everything via a good index. ... View more

Here is how I did it.  I made a folder on the extSD card called ArcGIS_Collector. I copied the .tpk file there.  It showed up as a basemap when I opened the project, I selected it, it loaded quickly.  I looked on the internal memory and found a folder with the .tpk file name but only two small files were there and the tpk was still on the extSD card.  For other basemaps that I didn't load this way, the tpk was still in the folders on internal memory. So...it worked. ... View more

You can try Collector for free if you have a Desktop license.  It works but is not as easy or complete as ArcPad.  You can tell it is still primitive in the sense that you are locked into one screen orientation.  For example on my Samsung 7 or 8 inch, the screen is locked into landscape and it can't be changed. ESRI is making the same mistake that Microsoft made when they ended Windows Mobile 6.x.  If some other software like AndMap available on Google Play gets a little more improved, they will wipe out Collector.  PLEASE ESRI, make ArcPad for Android and I would be willing to pay for it. NOTE: all of you who think iOS is better, note that no Apple devices allow an external SD so if you smash your device, ALL you data are lost.  Android allows you to save data to the external SD so if you smash your device, you just pull the chip out and you are good to go. ... View more

Yes, I don't have the exact details, but the way you do it is break the polygon into the number of sub polys of equal area and then randomly place a point in each poly.  The way I have done this in the past was to use R to accomplish this. This is a type of stratified random.  All requirements for randomness are maintained, that is, every point in the poly has an equal probability of being selected randomly.  This helps reduce the clumping and dispersion that is inherent in simple random point generation. ... View more

Thanks, that is helpful. Now if the real fix just gets done before Windows Mobile 6.x goes entirely extinct, that would be great. ... View more

I think you can use ArcPad Studio for this: Syntax <COMBOBOX Attribute Description Table      height ="integer "      width ="integer "      x ="integer "      y ="integer "      backgroundcolor ="RGB | HTML RGB | HTML Name (e.g., 0,0,255 | #0000FF | Blue)"      border ="true | false" [false]      color ="RGB | HTML RGB | HTML Name (e.g., 0,0,255 | #0000FF | Blue)"      defaultvalue ="string"      field ="string"      font ="Any system font"      fontsize ="1-NNN"      fontstyle ="regular | bold | italic | underline | strikeout" [regular]      group ="true | false" [false]      limittolist ="true | false" [true]      listtable ="string"      listtextfield ="string"      listvaluefield ="string"      maxvalue ="string"      minvalue ="string"      name ="string"      onchange ="script to run"      oncloseup ="script to run"      ondropdown ="script to run"      onkillfocus ="script to run"      onselcancel ="script to run"      onselchange ="script to run"      onselok ="script to run"      onsetfocus ="script to run"      onvalidate ="script to run"      readonly ="true | false" [false]      required ="true | false" [false]      sip ="true | false | auto" [auto]      sort ="true | false" [true]      tabstop ="true | false" [true] >      (m) <LISTITEM... /> </COMBOBOX > Bold: Attribute or child element is required. (m): Child element can be used ... View more

Additional comment about the sideloaded imagery resolution.  When you first bring in an image to ArcGIS you have the option of how to show the image using nearest-neighbor or bilinear whatever.  To me the bilinear looks a lot better than the pixilated nearest-neighbor option whenever you zoom in.  When you generate the tile package all it will give you is the nearest neighbor pixilated imagery even if you had picked the bilinear option on the desktop. Is this in fact a limitation of Collector and the tile package generator on the Desktop?  I can generate good bilinear imagery using File>export map on the desktop that I use on ArcPad, but it seems I am stuck with unsatisfactory imagery for Collector. ... View more