topic Re: Water Areas in State & Local Government Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/state-local-government-questions/water-areas/m-p/368398#M2249 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Luckily we only have a few lakes and we leave them open. Not sure of any pros or cons. Sorry, probably does not help you. I think this is a case where you just do whats best for you.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:00:35 GMT ChrisCorwin 2013-04-22T15:00:35Z Water Areas https://community.esri.com/t5/state-local-government-questions/water-areas/m-p/368397#M2248 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I was just wondering how other people were managing water areas.&nbsp; We have many hundreds of lakes.&nbsp; Some very large and containing many islands covering multiple townships.&nbsp; Right now we have a Tax Parcel Polygon that for the most part is broken at the section level to fill the holes in the lakes.&nbsp; Those polygons have a parcel Id of "WATER".&nbsp; I know there is something to be said for having contiguous data with no holes but this seems to be adding hundreds of thousands of points/lines in our fabric.&nbsp; Also, because of the complexity of the lakes it is difficult to merge each lake into 1 polygon.&nbsp; Does everyone fill the water areas with a parcel type that follows the shoreline?&nbsp; Are there advantages/disadvantages to doing it one way or the other?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:01:28 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/state-local-government-questions/water-areas/m-p/368397#M2248 JAKERODEL 2012-11-30T15:01:28Z Re: Water Areas https://community.esri.com/t5/state-local-government-questions/water-areas/m-p/368398#M2249 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Luckily we only have a few lakes and we leave them open. Not sure of any pros or cons. Sorry, probably does not help you. I think this is a case where you just do whats best for you.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:00:35 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/state-local-government-questions/water-areas/m-p/368398#M2249 ChrisCorwin 2013-04-22T15:00:35Z