tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584711944210082925.post792998173293348897..comments2023-07-03T04:07:51.928-07:00Comments on GIS Tools and Techniques for Landscape Ecological Research: New tool - Create Sampling Grid from Points for ArcGIS v. 1.0Tom Diltshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506834601939469137noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584711944210082925.post-28509648153617342482016-04-14T09:31:34.209-07:002016-04-14T09:31:34.209-07:00Hi Hornbydd, your suggestions would be easy to imp...Hi Hornbydd, your suggestions would be easy to implement and I'd be happy to work on the ones that I know how to do offhand. The help and the filters would be especially quick. I've had the problem with full paths for all of my tools, so if you've got any tips in that department I'd appreciate it. The same goes with performance. In a past tool (Generate points around points) I tiled the data for improved speed, so maybe I should consider that this time too. Shapefiles seemed like a natural to go to csv where most of the data processing is taking place, but it need not be so. I can look into expanding it to a wider range of data types.Tom Diltshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506834601939469137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584711944210082925.post-35137652561959497252016-04-14T05:12:43.102-07:002016-04-14T05:12:43.102-07:00Hi Tom, Just been reading this blog and followed t...Hi Tom, Just been reading this blog and followed the link to the tool. I have a few suggestions about this tool, I hope you don't mind me feeding these back? Don't see it as an attack, just making a very useful tool even better! I used the 10_3 tool. You had put together a help file but none of that help was within the tool. As I clicked on each parameter it showed the default "No description available". To help users you should put the help there too. You had no filters applied on the parameters so I was able to select polygon datasets as inputs! It blew up when my points were an IN_MEMORY dataset, in fact it seems only to work with shapefiles, why limit it to that format? It blew up if I chose a layer name and not a full path to a shapefile. Finally performance, it slowed down as it processed, I only threw 200 points at it. I think what I have suggested are fairly minor tweaks which enhances the overall user experience.Hornbyddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11955053422642525977noreply@blogger.com