Expand COGO Reader beyond Parcel Fabric

cmathers

I do not maintain parcel data and do not need to use the Parcel Fabric for my work but frequently deal with surveys none the less. It would be helpful to be able to use the COGO Reader tool outside of the Parcel Fabric to scan a deed and push the result into the normal Traverse tool.

DanielStone · ‎12-04-2025

Good day AKRRMapGuy,

Prior to the new user types which I believe became available with Enterprise 11.4, yes creator had to be assigned an Advance editor user type extension. This was provided as part of the desktop entitlements if the user was using ArcGIS Desktop Standard or Advance. With the new user types Professional (ArcGIS Pro Standard) and Professional Plus (ArcGIS Pro Advanced) they are included.

See this link: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/parcel-editing/deploylicenseparcelfabric.htm#GUID...

Dan

AKRRMapGuy · ‎12-04-2025

I guess to put a point on my question, we haven't converted to the 'new' user types yet and can't. If a Creator with a Pro Standard or Advanced add on is trying to do this Workflow on PF Services, in Pro it would let them? We are doing our Pro licensing through AGOL, the Portal where the services are would be a 'viewer' and the AGOL login, where there is no data or service, would be a creator w/ add on.

EllenEndebrockCOM · ‎12-04-2025

What this boils down to is that ESRI wants people to use the parcel fabric, and some of us just don't want to. Honestly, for the handful of times I have a complex legal description, it's simply not worth the effort for me to implement the parcel fabric for my features and workflow. Perhaps my successor will feel differently.

JeremyJones1

This would be an amazing change! I run many legal descriptions and none of them are inside a parcel layer or fabric. The current model makes it very time consuming and honestly annoying to have to set that all up to use the cogo reader.

DanielStone

Good day Jeremy,

What are the legal descriptions you are running describing? Easements? Right-of-ways? Leases? I'm interested in understanding your use case.

Respectfully, Dan

JeremyJones1

@DanielStone Yes my legal descriptions are very lengthy at times easements, right of ways, drain agreements, leases etc. We probably process between 20-50 conservation easements a year. The tool I was using was in ArcMap and a plugin for that. It allowed for COGO to read the description and the users to click on the meets and bounds and distances and that mapped them in Arc. We then take these and produce maps for staff and to update our open data portal layers. I worked with ESRI on a project to replace our existing tool about a year and a half ago using EAP funds. The existing tool seems to be working well, however needing to set up a parcel fabric, etc. instead of just maybe a file geo-database to store the information is a bit cumbersome.