New with ArcGIS Aviation

JaimeSF_EsriSpain

Hello,

I'm new to using the Aviation extension, and I have several questions:

From everything I read in the help, tutorials, etc., it always starts with .xml files that are downloaded from any AIP to then be able to import them into the work project to create the aeronautical charts.

In my case, I start with with Feature Classes, which contain information related to Airports, Airspace, Aeroways, Notification Points, etc. but I don't know if that can be easily converted to the AIXM schema and exported like that to create the charts.

I was making a comparison between the fields of the AIXM schema and the fields of my Feature Classes, and it's a lot of trouble to decipher all that.

KiyoshiYamashita

Hi Jaime,

You will do the data mapping against the "main" feature classes (ADHP, Airspace, etc.). The _C feature classes are the cartographic classes that we use for creating the charts later on. If you look closely at the attributes on each class, you'll see that there is more navigational information on the main feature class, and fewer attributes on the corresponding _C feature class.  For airports for example, you'll see things like Ident_Txt, Elev_Val, Name_Txt on the ADHP feature class, but more "cartographic" fields on the ADHP_C feature class, like Label_Txt, and CartoAngle_Val.

And yes, you may be able to use append with the field mapping parameter to load your features into the AIS feature classes as long as your mapping is pretty simple (i.e. one-to-one mapping from source to destination).