Dale Honeycutt

Dale Honeycutt
I’ve been with Esri for over 25 years. I started in Applications Programming where I was the lead analyst on several large site selection projects for the military, using GIS and decision analysis techniques for evaluating competing alternatives. I then moved onto software development where I led the development effort for the Network Analyst extension and ArcLogistics. I’m currently with the geoprocessing and analysis team where my main focus is with software design, product help, and the resource centers. contact: dhoneycutt@esri.com

Recent Posts

More adventures in overlay: creating a street intersection list

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If you work in local government, your GIS shop is most likely responsible for maintaining a street centerline database.  And if you’re the keeper of the street centerline database, you’ve probably had requests to create a street intersection list—a point … Continue reading

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More adventures in overlay: Spatial Join and the Field Map

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In my last blog post I showed how you could resolve 1:M relationships found in overlapping polygons using the spaghetti and meatballs technique. The model described in that post used used the sample  Concatenate Row Values  tool available from the … Continue reading

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More adventures in overlay: spaghetti, meatballs, and the one-to-many problem

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In my last blog post, I showed how you could count the number of overlapping polygons using the spaghetti and meatballs technique.  In this post, I want to go a little further and show how you can use this technique … Continue reading

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More adventures in overlay: counting overlapping polygons with spaghetti and meatballs

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In my last blog post about overlay, I introduced the concept of cartographic spaghetti and how it can be used to split polygons by line features. In this post, I want to continue with the cartographic spaghetti theme by introducing … Continue reading

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More adventures in overlay: splitting polygons with cartographic spaghetti

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In my previous blog post about overlay, I showed how to create simple tabulation tables using a variety of geoprocessing tools.  In this post, I continue with the theme of overlay by introducing an overlay methodology that can be useful … Continue reading

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More adventures in overlay: comparing commonly used overlay tools

In the blog about distributing data and analysis, I showed using the Tabulate Intersection tool to overlay archeological sites and land parcels to create a table containing information about each parcel within an archeological site. Figure 1 shows the data and the results of Tabulate Intersection. This “what sites overlay what parcels?” question is a classic overlay query. These types of queries are the bread-and-butter of geographic analysis.
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Bringing it all together – distributed analysis with distributed data

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Recently, we were contacted by a Bureau of Antiquities and Archeology (BAA) of a Mediterranean country about issues they were having solving a classic GIS overlay problem. The BAA is responsible for the inventory and protection of archeological sites within … Continue reading

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I write a lot of Python code, both for stand-alone scripts and script tools. Over the years, I’ve developed a template that I use for all my Python code. It keeps my code organized and consistent — the first step towards making reusable code.

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2011 User Conference wrap up — Analysis and Geoprocessing

We had a great time at the 2011 International User Conference.  It was a pleasure meeting those of you that attended.  Our technical sessions were full and our island was constantly busy. 

We’ve been uploading our technical session presentations to our Presentations page.  These presentations are .zip files in the Model and Script tool gallery and include the slide deck, data, documents, scripts, tools, and so forth used in our technical presentations.  (Note: some presentations may not include data due to distribution restrictions.) 

You should also visit the User Conference website.  From there, you can navigate to the  UC Proceedings where you can view/download materials from all sessions.

Be sure to revisit these sites as we’re not done uploading everything yet.

Finally, we rely on your session evaluations to improve our technical workshop sessions.  If you attended a session, you can fill out a session evaluation form by visiting  www.esri.com/sessionevals

 

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User Conference 2011 — Analysis and Geoprocessing

The 2011 User Conference is just days away and the adrenaline and coffee is flowing here! We – the Spatial Analysis Teams – look forward to meeting you, answering questions, and taking your suggestions and comments. So do visit us in the Esri Showcase at the Spatial Analysis Island. We’ll have individual areas set up for the following functionality/subject area:

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