This blog post describes how South African ID numbers can be verified mathematically in Survey123. South African ID numbers have the following format:
{YYMMDD}{G}{SSS}{C}{A}{Z}
YYMMDD …
Category Archives: Technology Innovation
Esri Field Mobility
Maintaining field assets such as roads or fire hydrants, requires engineers and managers to know what condition these assets are in. After all, prevention is …
How to save over 70GB of hard drive space in one click!
Recently I found myself wondering where exactly all the space on my hard drive was going. One day it was there, and the next it …
Make your own 3D web app
We all know that ArcGIS comes with a very large number of out of the box apps that seemingly do just about everything! Surprisingly though, …
Monitor your assets in real time
As part of the ArcGIS Platform, the GeoEvent Extension for Server enables real time data processing and works seamlessly with your other ArcGIS software. Several …
CityEngine & ArcGIS Pro combine to show CCTV coverage in 3D
As part of our Modelling Reality in 3D series, this post looks at the Esri Africa User Conference demonstration of CCTV camera placement in 3D.…
Determining Solar Potential for Rooftops of Multipatch Feature Types
Part of the Modelling Reality in 3D series
Often times there are problems that simply have to be solved in 3 dimensions in order to …
Migrating Python Scripts to ArcGIS Pro
What’s new?
With the migration towards 64-bit processing in ArcGIS Pro, some big changes have come to the Python environment as well.
- Python in ArcGIS
ArcGIS Open Data
The need to share GIS data with the public or internally in an organisation has grown markedly over the past years. Until recently, sharing data …
Running a Data Interopability ETL tool in a python script
The Data Interoperability Extension for ArcGIS is an incredibly powerful tool for migrating and transforming data (both spatial AND non-spatial). We have been using it …