Latest Contributions by SimonSeamount

I want to calculate degrees for go/slow-go/no-go. I ran the raster through SLOPE tool. First I used option DEGREES, and resulting values were all somewhere between 89.5 and 89.9. Second I used option PERCENT OF SLOPE, and resulting values were between 0 and 17,000,000 with media of about 38,600. The help page on Calculating Slope seems to assume that I will get values like 58. http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=Calculating_slope I cannot find anywhere an explanation for how to get from 38,000 to the degree it apparently represents. Thanks for any guidance. ... View more

If I create a layer of features in ArcGIS Explorer Online, say I draw the outlines of a bunch of buildings, or I digitize roads or rivers, how can I save the work to a shapefile that I could use elsewhere on a computer where I have an ArcView license? ... View more

Provide a timeline animation toolbar to support temporal information in all data similar to the animation toolbar provided by Adobe Flash. Provide capability of zooming in and out of the timeline, down to seconds and out to millenia. Automatically provide time attributes in all geodatabase feature classes. Zooming in to click on a start point and end point would insert the temporal information in the attribute field. Place this toolbar across the top of ArcGIS Explorer and ArcMap with a temporal starting point at the big bang. Incorporate various cultural calendars along the timeline. Allow users to create timelines for example to illustrate a dynasty of kings or evolutionary patterns of a species. Provide intertemporation visualization, which is what I call the temporal aspect of interpolation, similar to the animation function of the Adobe Flash time toolbar. This would allow for time-animating satellite images, changes in thematic and demographic data, modeling continental plate movements and biological evolution, illustrating historical processes and events such as battles and wars, anlayzing urban transformations, and many other topics and events that occur over time. ... View more