topic Re: Highlight gaps and overlaps tool not working after "upgrade" in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Highlight gaps and overlaps tool not working after "upgrade"

Michele — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:32:38 GMT

My agency just upgraded to ArcPro 3.3.1 and the highlight gaps and overlaps tool no longer allows me to select a layer (polygon feature class) to check. Did something change with the tool or is this a bug??

Re: Highlight gaps and overlaps tool not working after "upgrade"

DanPatterson — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:01:48 GMT

This may be pertinent

BUG-000168746 for ArcGIS Pro

Re: Highlight gaps and overlaps tool not working after "upgrade"

Michele — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:43:12 GMT

Ugh!! Why does esri always change things that work and help QC datasets. I never even heard of a parcel fabric polygon layer. Do you or anyone else know if there is another easy way to check for gaps and overlaps?? I cannot use parcel fabric bc it my dataset is a versioned feature class in an enterprise database.

Re: Highlight gaps and overlaps tool not working after "upgrade"

Eugene_Adkins — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:01:28 GMT

Maybe the Find Overlaps tool will help? There seems to be a difference between it and the Gaps and Overlaps tool.

Re: Highlight gaps and overlaps tool not working after "upgrade"

Michele — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 18:26:39 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion Eugene. I tried this and in addition to it only finding overlaps (and I'm not convinced it found them all) it's a very cumbersome way to do it compared to the simplistic tool that was available before. It seems like it's now incorporated into this parcel fabric workflow which is way beyond what I need it for. My polygons are not parcels and it worked perfectly. I wish they would just bring it back so you could do a fast check for gaps and overlaps in any dataset like it was.

@KoryKrameris my assumption that the finds gaps and overlaps tool is now only available as part of the parcel fabric layer and there is no other way to utilize it?

Re: Highlight gaps and overlaps tool not working after "upgrade"

AmirBar-Maor — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:05:00 GMT

The Highlight Gaps and Overlaps tool help documentation clearly states that the tool is designed to find gaps and overlaps between parcels.

Did you consider using the Data Reviewer Extension (list of data reviewer checks) to detect gaps and overlaps?

@Michele - what is your use case? What do your polygons represent?

Re: Highlight gaps and overlaps tool not working after "upgrade"

Michele — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 19:37:29 GMT

@AmirBar-MaorI see that it says parcels in the documentation even going back to 3.2 which is what I was using it on until recently. I'm assuming that was a bug in that and previous versions since it had been working even though the polys I had weren't "parcels".

The data validation tool seems just as cumbersome as setting up my polys as parcels so I'd be able to use the highlight gaps and overlaps tool. The way it worked in 3.2 was ideal for a quick look to find things that aren't aligned. I have several people editing the feature class and they are not GIS saavy, but they need to do it. Even though I explain to them that they have to make sure the polys are aligned, they don't know how to do all the checks and likely don't care since they just want to get done what they need it for.

All I can say about the data is that it represents areas on the ground.

Re: Highlight gaps and overlaps tool not working after "upgrade"

AmirBar-Maor — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:05:30 GMT

@Michele

The first release of the Highlight Gaps and Overlaps contained some bugs that we fixed in later releases. This included allowing the tool to work on non-parcel features. Since then we have also enhanced the tool to work on multiple parcel layers, check between different parcel layers and added a geoprocessing tool for automation.
The parcel fabric is designed to manage 'parcels' in the broader cadastral sense. Those are often referred to as the 3 'R's = Rights, Restrictions, and Responsibilities. They are used to manage things like ownership, leases, encumbrances (easements), zoning ... as well as administrative parcels. If your data falls into one of those categories you'll be happy to learn that migrating your data to the parcel fabric is an easy process and that any editing tool you already use can be used against the parcel fabric + (as you have found the hard way) many more useful tools can capabilities.

Apologies for not locking that tool in our first release. We did not expect non-parcels users to find and utilize it.

Re: Highlight gaps and overlaps tool not working after "upgrade"

Michele — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:46:20 GMT

@AmirBar-Maor That's too bad because it was really useful to quickly see if there were gaps/overlaps in any polygon dataset without having to run some elaborate GP tool.

Re: Highlight gaps and overlaps tool not working after "upgrade"

Michele — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:07:35 GMT

@AmirBar-Maoris there a good resource on how to use data reviewer for polygons? I've searched the web and at least found how to get to the attribute rules (ArcPro help is not helpful when you don't even know how to get to it). For some reason the "features to compare" drop down that is in the polygon overlap is sliver rule doesn't have anything in it and I cannot figure out why, thus making this tool useless bc it's a required field.

Re: Highlight gaps and overlaps tool not working after "upgrade"

AmirBar-Maor — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:34:52 GMT

@Michele

Data Reviewer has a community place - https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-data-reviewer/ct-p/arcgis-data-reviewer. It includes videos and useful resources and I am sure they can answer your question. While some Data Reviewer checks leverage attribute rules, most Data Reviewer checks do not.