Bug in Business Analyst 2015 Basemap Layer .. Workaround

RobertStevens — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:45:15 GMT

There is an error in the basemap layer of the 2015 data supplied by ESRI as part of the Business Analyst extension

To set the context. I have a map of Portland, Oregon. When I display the map at most scales, I see the Columbia and Willamette rivers, as I should. But when I display the map at a scale anywhere between 100K:1 and 150K:1 the rivers disappear -- the background symbology reverts to that of the land.

I investigated by looking at the basemap supplied with the 2015 data, and the corresponding layer file.

There are multiple group layers named Hydrology and within those groups a layer named Water Area. Those names are suffixed by a pair of numbers indicating the scale at which the layer displays. Eg Water Areas (150 - 100k). When I look at the data source for the Water Area layer at different scales I see the following:

Water Areas (350 - 150k)

Feature Dataset: MapWaterArea

Feature Class: MapWaterArea_1

Water Areas (150 - 100k)

Feature Dataset: MapOceanArea

Feature Class: MapOceanArea_1

Water Areas (100 - 50k)

Feature Dataset: MapWaterArea

Feature Class: MapWaterArea

It seems clear that the 150-100k data is wrong. It is pointing at the Oceans data, not at the Water Area data. And indeed, when I correct the feature class of the 150-100k data to be MapWaterArea_1 I find that the Columbia and Willamette rivers display correctly.

I hope this may be of help to anyone else that runs into this problem (BTW: there could be other Hydrology layers at other scales that are incorrect. I did not exhaustively check them all. It was already a royal pain to correct all the maps I already had based on the incorrect basemap layer)

Rob Stevens

Re: Bug in Business Analyst 2015 Basemap Layer .. Workaround

Jason_RobinsonRobinson — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:53:18 GMT

Rob,

This does sound like an issue that has already come up so let me do some double checking internally as I recall it did have to do with some water layers in the 2015 basemap.

Regards,
Jason R.

Re: Bug in Business Analyst 2015 Basemap Layer .. Workaround

RobertStevens — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 14:49:42 GMT

Despite years having rolled by, no fix by ESRI for this problem has ever been forthcoming.

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