Hey everyone I was tasked with creating a local government Network Dataset for our facility. I have fully built the network and it is able to route around our facility with no issue. A restriction we have in our facility are vehicle gates, some with badge access and some that are manual gates. There is a restriction set up to only allow routing through gates with badge access.
My goal is to have the badge access gates show up in the directions. The gates are a points that are added as a junction to the Network, they are set to connect at any vertex along the edge feature (roads) and the edge feature is set to allow any vertex. However when the Route goes through the gate it does not say the gate name it passes through. The gate junction is set up to support directions and the base name field is filled out.
From my research it seemed the best course for me to take was to add the Gates as a Spatial landmark so when the route passes by the gate it would input a predetermined text block into the directions. However it does not do that, the shapefile I use for the spatial landmarks is exactly that same as the junctions shape file, so it does intersect with the edge feature (roads). I have not tested it with a shapefile that does not intersect with the edge feature (roads)
I followed pretty much everything outlined in this help page: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/3.0/help/analysis/networks/how-to-create-a-usable-network-dataset....
Does anyone know what I should do differently to allow the gates name to show up in the directions?
Network Analyst built on ArcGIS PRO 3.0.1, we have since upgraded to 3.1
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I noticed that in the screenshot of Pro that you provided, the one in dark theme, below the directions instructions, there's a part for Events, and that's where the landmarks get reported.
When you expand Events, does that show the correct reporting of the landmarks?
In some sample data, I copied some system junctions to a new feature class, gave them names, and set them up as landmarks. When I solved a route for that area, I did see the landmarks reported under the Events expander.
I'm not sure what's going on with the directions in the enterprise portal, so I'll continue to look into that.
Well that is a weird way to show it, but glad to know its working in ArcPro. Do you know if there is a way to have it show up as a step and not be hidden in a drop down "event" menu?
No, there isn't a way to customize directions or how they're displayed at this time. Also, I'm still investigating the issue in enterprise portal. Would you be able to tell me what version of portal you're using?
We recently upgraded to 11.1
Haven't forgotten this. We're still looking into the enterprise portal part.
Hi Brandon,
I'm sorry this took so long but I have an update. The Directions widget in Map Viewer Classic won't show spatial landmarks. Even the new Map Viewer doesn't show the spatial landmarks, although it could, because it has the information; it just doesn't show it. We're working on getting it updated. I don't have a timeline for you on when it will happen, but please know that we do want it to happen and are moving towards it.
Let me know if you have any other questions!