Adding public infrastructure data to existing buildings

[EmilyHamilton]

Hi, I am trying to learn the service expansion that is needed for public infrastructure in a city. I have built out the anticipated future development for a 10-mile corridor with a quarter-mile buffer. Is ArcUrban capable of taking both the future development and existing conditions, and applying a formula for X amount of sewer line/power line/etc. and finding the deficit? I saw on this post that it is possible to add metrics to existing buildings, but it seems like it would not be able to differentiate between the existing and future buildings. 

[DominikAllemann]

Hi @EmilyHamilton ,

On behalf of the ArcGIS Urban team, apologies for the very belated response to your question.

Currently, Urban doesn't allow you to include existing metric values in your metric calculations. We are aware that this can be a hurdle for our users. We are working on solutions to facilitate such workflows in the future, but we don't have a timeline yet on when this will land in the product.

As an immediate workaround, consider calculating the existing metric values (i.e., the existing amount of sewer line/power line needed) outside of Urban and then importing the result of such a calculation into Urban as existing metric values. 

You can still rely on Urban's metric calculation capabilities to calculate the future number of sewer lines/power lines based on the anticipated future development. 

Please feel free to log an idea in the ArcGIS Urban Ideas board for your metrics use case. This allows other users to vote for it and helps us with prioritisation. 

Don't hesitate to reach out if you have further questions. 

Thanks, 
Dominik