topic Re: Have you seen COGO Reader? in ArcGIS Parcel Fabric Videos

Have you seen COGO Reader?

DanielStone — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:19:44 GMT

Good day Parcel Aficionados,

With the release of ArcGIS Pro 3.5, the parcel fabric team has introduced the COGO Reader Tool. COGO Reader is a new tool designed to assist editors that enter metes and bounds to describe land boundaries.

Here is a short video of Jason Camerano demonstrating the advantages this tool can provide when entering deeds.

https://link.esri.com/ParcelFabric/COGOReader

Enjoy

Dan Stone

Re: Have you seen COGO Reader?

ArizonaGIS2 — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:59:54 GMT

Hey Dan, I'm not sure if I am missing something, but I can't for the life of me get the parcel courses | Template to populate. We don't manage parcels but regularly digitize easements and zoning cases, and this tool would be great to incorporate into our workflow.

Re: Have you seen COGO Reader?

ArizonaGIS2 — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 21:23:51 GMT

Disregard. I found the missing step.

Re: Have you seen COGO Reader?

LukeRipple — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:26:35 GMT

Hello, I am also having issues with the Template portion of this tool. Could you tell me what you did to fix it? Thanks.

Re: Have you seen COGO Reader?

HeatherHanson — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 11:48:43 GMT

We have been testing it as we prepare for the transition to Pro. Is the capability of handling non-tangent curves in the works? This seems to be the most consistent error we've encountered. Being able to send it to traverse and then modify is helpful at least.

Re: Have you seen COGO Reader?

AmirBar-Maor — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:08:14 GMT

@HeatherHanson COGO Reader does support non-tangent curves. But in some states/descriptions are written differently and COGO Reader fails to process them.

The best thing you can do is contact technical support and provide a few examples of deeds with non-tangent curves that fail to process. If this occurs a lot, we can consider adding it to one of the 3.5 patches, once fixed.

Re: Have you seen COGO Reader?

AmirBar-Maor — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:09:24 GMT

@LukeRipple Can you please confirm:

You are using the parcel fabric
You can see the feature templates visible in the Create Features pane?

Re: Have you seen COGO Reader?

AmirBar-Maor — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:11:00 GMT

All

You can register to the meetup which will be dedicated to COGO Reader

https://www.meetup.com/esri-parcel-fabric-meet-up/events/308788324/

Re: Have you seen COGO Reader?

HeatherHanson — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:15:27 GMT

I'll send the deeds I've tried to tech support, because none have been successful with non-tangent curves

Re: Have you seen COGO Reader?

LTWDGIS — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:24:00 GMT

This is a fantastic tool, but having to use it with a parcel fabric is a show-stopper. I work for a water district that doesn't have the need for a parcel fabric. We do process legal descriptions on a regular basis, but there is no way to justify the time/expense of creating a parcel fabric just to run the COGO Reader tool. A parcel fabric makes sense for the appropriate type of operations, such a tracking parcels in an Assessor's Office, but for a lot of us, requiring it kills the use of a great tool in our organization.

Re: Have you seen COGO Reader?

DanielStone — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:58:21 GMT

Good day @LTWDGIS ,

I'm curious, Are the legal descriptions ya'll process describing land? Why wouldn't the parcel fabric be used for this purpose? The ArcGIS Parcel Fabric is not only for Tax Parcels, but for any type of land. What is the type of information you are mapping using legal descriptions? Leases? Easements? Fee Simple?

Re: Have you seen COGO Reader?

Fabian_Shenk — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:13:44 GMT

Just for knowledge, what was the missing step?

Re: Have you seen COGO Reader?

EMCAdministrator — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:55:30 GMT

I had the same problem, but ChatGPT helped me. I had to go to the catalog pane, right-click on the parcel fabric -> Manage -> Add Parcel Type. This creates a parcel line layer inside the fabric that can be used as a parcel course layer in the COGO reader.

Re: Have you seen COGO Reader?

LukeRipple — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:32:17 GMT

Hello EMCAdministrator, I just tried this and it worked! Now when I open the COGO Reader tool, the connection lines template and the parcel lines template sections are populated. Thank you for suggesting this!

Re: Have you seen COGO Reader?

VincentRobinson — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:33:48 GMT

I cant find this tool within Arcpro, i just doaloaded 3.5 yeterday. Can some help me?

Re: Have you seen COGO Reader?

DanielStone — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:53:48 GMT

Good day @VincentRobinson ,

You can get to the tool from the 'Parcel Records Workflows' tab. This tab will become active when you have a parcel fabric in the map.

Re: Have you seen COGO Reader?

FabianShenk2 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:09:07 GMT

I was so sorry to miss it. Did anyone record the meeting? Can you post it?

Re: Have you seen COGO Reader?

AmirBar-Maor — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:40:26 GMT

Hello Fabian. It has been recorded.

You can find the recording here: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-parcel-fabric-videos/meetup-cogo-reader-deep-dive/m-p/1636303#M237

Re: Have you seen COGO Reader?

LeeGravel — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:12:45 GMT

Hi, Dan -

Are there plans to make COGO Reader available as a widget for use in Web App Builder maps?

Re: Have you seen COGO Reader?

GordonCourtney — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 20:55:01 GMT

@AmirBar-Maor do you have tips how I can change the wording for a non-tangent curve in the text box, once the COGO Reader has scanned the image? I am in Florida and it is not mapping the non-tangent curves. I have tried changing the wording, but can't get it to work. If not, is there a way to edit the traverse window within the reader like you can edit in the traverse when not using the reader?