topic Re: Data Driven Page - Map Extent Issue in Mapping Questions

Data Driven Page - Map Extent Issue

BenVan_Kesteren1 — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:11:06 GMT

hi all,

I am wondering why the map extent is acting strange for my current Data Driven Page setup.

If you look at the below screenshot, I have set the Best fit to be 4cm, so I would like 4cm of clearance around my land parcel before the edge of the map. It looks fine.

scale automatically zooms to 1:2000

I would like to lessen this margine as I would like to see more detail of my parcel of land, so I change the margin to be 3cm or even 2cm, but then the map scale rounds DOWN to be 1:1000, which actually chops part of my parcel off. Is this normal? I would have thought that ArcMap would have realised this and changed it so as it had to round up to the next available scale which is 1:2000.

Is this a bug? Or should the map be clipping part of my parcel in focus out of the map?

scale is automatically changed to 1:1000

Thanks

Re: Data Driven Page - Map Extent Issue

DavidBarnes — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:21:32 GMT

In the Data Driven Pages Set up dialog, on the Extent tab, what is "Round Scale To Nearest" set to?

Re: Data Driven Page - Map Extent Issue

BenVan_Kesteren1 — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 01:18:13 GMT

Hi David, as per the screenshots i have it set to round to nearest 1000 scale, but I am perplexed as to why it would round down and cut parts of the data driven polygon out of the data frame...

cheers

Re: Data Driven Page - Map Extent Issue

DavidBarnes — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:15:08 GMT

It's rounding to "nearest" value, which means it can round up or down. Maybe there should be an option to only round up, or maybe it should do that by default. You might consider submitting an idea to the ideas website at http://ideas.arcgis.com/

Re: Data Driven Page - Map Extent Issue

BenVan_Kesteren1 — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 04:29:33 GMT

ah excellent, you have stated the obvious which I had made an incorrect assumption.

I interpreted that to be round up only, I didn't think ArcMap would round down and cut the map off, thanks for your assistance.