Is funny I just made one Friday from our latest Pictometry flight! They are called “Table-based raster catalogs”
For performance reasons we have to have the aerials images and the table-based raster catalog on each PC at our 911 center, any server image catalog doesn’t work for them, you got it right you only need those 5 columns on the database file.
Detail instructions at:
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On Behalf Of Jarlath P.M. O'Neil-Dunne
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2019 9:16 AM
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Subject: Re: Raster Index/Catalog Dbf file
The new technology for this functionality is called a Mosaic Dataset.
https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/manage-data/raster-and-images/what-is-a-mosaic-dataset.htm
I forget if 10.2 allows it as that version is no longer supported so I could not find the online documentation.
Most states now have imagery services so that you don’t have to even download the imagery.
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On Dec 29, 2019, at 08:04, John Burns <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi Folks,
I’m not professionally trained but have been working with ArcGIS for 20+ years in environmental work.
Been so long since I’ve had to do it I forgot how to do it and what it’s even called. You have state-wide rasters of aerials and you can create a dbf IV file that has the file names in one column and then X/Y Max/Min in four other columns. Then I can just drag that into my map and it displays without having to load 150 files/layers.
How did I do this? I did it with Sids before. Want to do Jp2 files and/or TIFF.
Am working in 10.2. Making a raster catalog in a file geodatabase makes a file bigger than the images combined.
Any help would be appreciative as I have about 30 field forms to go.
John
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