The parcel Fabric Editor should be more clear as to whether or not it is using as recorded, as measured, as fit, or as estimated* distances in the parcel fabric..
Using these definitions for distances:
As recorded: the legal distance on the plat.
As measured: the actual distance measured by a surveyor.
As fit: the distance of the parcel as it fits into the parcel fabric
As estimated: a way of indicating that the distance on a line is a guess. This would be a way of allowing a high accuracy on the direction of a line, while indicating that the actual distance is a guess. This indicator might be used in legals that make a statement "then S 89-29-34 W to the center of the river"
First,
Currently when we add lines in the parcel detail windows there is only one distance that we can enter. In addition to the measured distance it would be useful to include: 1) the recorded distance and 2) indicate if the distance is guessed. Which would be useful if to indicate cases where we are confident about the direction of a line, but not the true distance.
Second,
It would be nice if ESRI was more transparent about how some of the parcel creation tools work including but is not limited to duplicate, merge, and construct from parent tools. It seems that sometimes the parcel tools will use the distances that were entered in the parent(s) parcel detail window, and other cases the tools use the distances as they fit in the fabric. I think the latter is quite annoying. If I construct from parent from two 100 by 100 foot parcels I expect the result to be 200 feet by 100 feet. Not 199.76 by 100.24.
Thanks
This has been implemented in ArcGIS Pro.
It will not be implemented in ArcMap Parcel Editor.
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