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Adding Points to a Existing Map

deleted-user-Jhc6Dca2JfQr — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:03:15 GMT

Hello- I am having one heck of a time just doing a simple thing on my map- not sure why.

the map is one I found in my office share drive, have repointed it to the server, and I am using 10.6

I need to add three different color points to mark off the Towns Parking lots handicap, 1,2,3 hour parking spaces.

It should very simple but I am not finding a way to does this.,

Could you make some suggestions to me?

Thanks for your support.

Re: Adding Points to a Existing Map

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:08:23 GMT

If you do not have a featureclass to put the points in, then you will need to create a new featureclass in your geodatabase.

Once you have added the locations, then you will need to provide attributes to the table to enable you to symbolize the different points in different colors/symbols based on the desired attribute.

If this doesn't sound familiar, perhaps you could elaborate on what you have, what form the data are in if it exists... and if the data already exists, and you aren't familiar with 10.6 or ArcMap in general, then the first thing you should do is produce a copy of the file first (Copy Tool in ArcToolbox)

Re: Adding Points to a Existing Map

deleted-user-Jhc6Dca2JfQr — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 13:09:18 GMT

Hello Dan

Here is what I have done so far-

Nothing shows up in the "create features" , which I expect is part of the problem- but do not know how to remedy

As far as making a copy- I renamed it- so the original stays in tack- is using the copy feature in tool box better way?

Thanks for the help.

Re: Adding Points to a Existing Map

DanPatterson_Retired — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 13:41:13 GMT

Paul, I suspect you are in need of some guidance in the form of a tutorial

http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/get-started/create-points-on-a-map.htm.. there is one for arcmap here http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/editing-fundamentals/exercise-1a-creating-new-points.htm

Re: Adding Points to a Existing Map

deleted-user-Jhc6Dca2JfQr — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 14:49:15 GMT

Great advice- will take a look and post the results!!

Thanks Dan!!

Re: Adding Points to a Existing Map

deleted-user-Jhc6Dca2JfQr — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 20:25:48 GMT

Dan- remember going over that a few months back- it helped to go over it again-

I got farther but not doing what I need it to do..

I want to add a point- then in a drop down box designate weather it is a 1 hour or Handi Cap spot and have to designations show as a diffierant color. For example- Blue for handicap, yellow for 1 hour and so on.

Here is what I got so far...

I Also get this

I did tell it to correct the reference data when I added it, but not sure how to correct it now.

Again- I thank you for you help.

Re: Adding Points to a Existing Map

DanPatterson_Retired — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 22:04:43 GMT

You aren't going to get the fanciness you want. I was under the impression that you wanted to just create a dataset.

Now it looks like you want to get into an application development environment. Keep it simple, create the geometry, add the attributes and if you have to do this on a daily basis, then develop the app.

To fix the 'not the same as the dataframe issue', just change the coordinate system of the dataframe through its properties.

The easiest way is to open a new dataframe, and drag a file with the coordinate system that you want into it. The first file usually sets the coordinate system of the dataframe by default. Make sure all others are in the same coordinate system to avoid projections on the fly.

Good luck

Re: Adding Points to a Existing Map

TimOrmsby — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 23:40:13 GMT

Paul, if all you need is to have your parking space features presymbolized and attributed, so that during your edit session, you can choose the correct parking lot symbol before you add the point, you can accomplish this with a feature template. Essentially, you define in advance the default symbol and default attribute for each type of parking space. It will look something like the image below. Each time you add a point, you can pick the type you want. I'm not sure if you're looking for this kind of functionality or something more advanced.

There are several help topics on feature templates starting with About feature templates. There are some good introductory ArcMap editing exercises starting with Introduction to the Editing tutorial.

Tim

Re: Adding Points to a Existing Map

deleted-user-Jhc6Dca2JfQr — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 14:47:16 GMT

Thanks Tim-

That is what I want to do. I take a look.

Re: Adding Points to a Existing Map

deleted-user-Jhc6Dca2JfQr — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 15:26:10 GMT

As I read and claw my way through- I progress but slow, I continue to read and apply but as seen below- I was able to make the points I wanted. Under parking spots in Table of contents is what I want- but in the create features the color & shape is incorrect-

Re: Adding Points to a Existing Map

TimOrmsby — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 17:53:50 GMT

I think you're close. Try the following steps while you are in an edit session:

In the Create Features window, right-click each entry and click Delete. Now your feature template will be gone. You'll see the message "There are no templates to show" in the Create Features window.
In the Table of Contents, where you have the symbology you want, right-click the Parking Spots layer. On the context menu, point to Edit Features and click Organize Feature Templates.
In the Organize Feature Templates dialog box, click New Template at the top.
In the Create New Templates Wizard, the Parking Spots layer should appear with a check mark. Click Next.
On the next panel of the wizard, you should see your layer symbols (the ones you want). Click Finish.
Close the Organize Feature Templates dialog box.

Now in the Create Features window, I think the correct symbols will appear. You should be able to choose them and start adding points. There may be a problem with the <all other values> symbol because I don't think that entry can be part of a feature template. In your layer symbology, you may have to define a categorical value called Other so that it can be added to the feature template. But the rest should be okay, I think. Give it a try.

Re: Adding Points to a Existing Map

deleted-user-Jhc6Dca2JfQr — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 18:50:35 GMT

Tim- that seems to work-

Question on my attribute table- this doesn't look right to me-

Re: Adding Points to a Existing Map

deleted-user-Jhc6Dca2JfQr — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 18:52:23 GMT

Here is a picture is what I have so far.

Need to figure out how to make a legend after my maps are done..

Re: Adding Points to a Existing Map

DanPatterson_Retired — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 18:56:45 GMT

You can assign the attributes to the table after if you want. It looks like you have 18 points of geometry and I presume that not all the attributes have all time attributes.

You do have a handicap spot in the one hour spot... was that a mistake? or a real limit

Re: Adding Points to a Existing Map

deleted-user-Jhc6Dca2JfQr — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 19:17:51 GMT

Hello Dan-

I did not put anything in there myself- I just wanted to check to see if there was anything-

It's odd to me how it got populated with so many points- I only need four.

Also not sure how but each column has all the "spots" in them except one- the handicap column

If it has no effect on the map- I could just leave it alone, however it would effect the map, I would like to edit it.

The challenge to me would be what should stay and what should go- I have to look up attribute tables and study them some more.

Any help appreciated as well

Thanks again Dan-

Re: Adding Points to a Existing Map

TimOrmsby — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 22:14:03 GMT

You probably don't want a field in the table for each parking value. You just need one field. Call it TYPE, for example. Then your different parking values go into that field. So your table would look more like this picture.

Re: Adding Points to a Existing Map

deleted-user-Jhc6Dca2JfQr — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 13:31:16 GMT

Thanks Tim- So I paired down the table to one "type" and so then I added the missing points. When I did, I noticed that additional Objectid where added. So I summarized that each point will get it each Object ID- which is like a excel sheet-

which I sure has a benefit in terms of figuring out how many of these parking spaces do we have in out town...very interesting.

Re: Adding Points to a Existing Map

deleted-user-Jhc6Dca2JfQr — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 13:31:55 GMT