topic Re: Polygons sharing boundaries in ArcGIS Enterprise Portal Questions

Polygons sharing boundaries

LarsAnker-Rasch — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:20:55 GMT

This is the idea: Lets say I have two polygons laying next to each other. If i start zooming in on the boundary, a small gap will appear between them. I want the two polygon boundaries to merge into one single boundary. As a result, when I start to correct the boundary (by dragging the boundary to the left) the feature of the polygon on the right will fill up the new space, i.e; not create an open space between the two polygons.

I've looked at some other threads on the forum and found one that uses Integrate (ArcToolbox -> Data management Tools), but It didn't really do what i wanted it to.

Any help is appreciated.

ArcMap 10.0

Re: Polygons sharing boundaries

AlexeyTereshenkov — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:44:58 GMT

Hi,

There are some new tools introduced in ArcGIS 10.1 which you might like testing:

First read here:
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/About_aligning_features/01m800000015000000/

Then see tools available:
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//01m800000004000000
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//01m80000001m000000

Re: Polygons sharing boundaries

MarkBoucher — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:47:36 GMT

Learn and use topology rules/tools.

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/An_overview_of_topology_in_ArcGIS/006200000001000000/

These are related to the align tools Alexey points out and they are available in 10.0.

Re: Polygons sharing boundaries

LarsAnker-Rasch — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:19:56 GMT

Learn and use topology rules/tools.

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/An_overview_of_topology_in_ArcGIS/006200000001000000/

These are related to the align tools Alexey points out and they are available in 10.0.

Thank you. But I immediately get problems using that solution. I right-click on my feature dataset to create a Topology, but there is no "New->Topology" when I right-click.
Could this be because I don't have the proper license?

Re: Polygons sharing boundaries

MarcinGasior — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:15:15 GMT

...there is no "New->Topology" when I right-click.
Could this be because I don't have the proper license?

Yes, Geodatabase topology requires at leas ArcEditor (Standard) license.
But instead of geodatabase topology you can create temporary map topology in edit session.
Look at this ArcGIS tutorial exercise for example: http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//001t00000021000000.htm