data types for COGO from ArcGIS Desktop to ArcGIS Pro

Question

Greetings,

It seems that the COGO fields have been changed from Text fields (in desktop) to numeric fields in Pro.

Are there were tools or methods available to convert COGO fields from their Desktop text field-type to double field-type in Pro?

Thank you,

--SM

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Brian_Wilson · Answer

Okay, I guess the correct answer is "no". 🙂

We hit this issue today.

It does not seem like it's hard - it will be a one-time thing. I think like this:

(1) attempt to run Enable COGO. It will fail and list out the names of the fields it wants to create Write down the names of the old fields.

(2) rename those - for example make Direction OLD_Direction

(3) run Enable COGO again, this time it will succeed

(4) use Calculate Field to copy from each old field to each new one

(5) delete the old fields

I could write a little tool to do this but it would be used one time here. Not worth it.

JasonFuller · Answer

I know this is kind of old but I have also wondered if there are any tools for converting between these data types.  Or in situations where someone provides you data in ArcPro Cogo but you need to add it to an ArcGIS Desktop Cogo dataset. Would love some conversion tools or scripts but cannot seem to find any.

SamMontoia1 · Answer

Thank you for the explanation, I need to be more clear; are there tools or methods to take existing data that is stored in the desktop COGO fields and transfer it to the Pro COGO fields? In Pro, Enabling COGO using these tools elicits errors of wrong data type for COGO fields.

There is likely a methodology that includes transferring the data to some "place-holder" fields and then programming the conversion of these strings into COGO Direction values, in much the same way ArcGIS must do it when you enter values into its various traverse tools.