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Modeling Proposed Features in the Utility Network

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3 weeks ago
TSmith
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Hey All, 

Had a question pertaining to proposed assets in a Water Distribution UN. I am working with a client that currently digitizes proposed water mains and services as "pulled-back" from active mains. In some cases, their configuration has created topology errors due to gaps in feature connectivity or junctions missing. 

I wanted to see what the community's experience has been with this, as to how to manage these transient asset states during a migration, to minimize the amount of cleanup required post-migration. I had theorized that perhaps a snapping operation could be ran during the migration on any proposed features (e.g, prior to loading data into the asset package and converting to a UN) but wanted to see if there is a better method to tackle this. We are excluding abandoned assets in this migration, as there are far too many and the only alternative we had found was faking z-values to remedy most of the stacked point issues.

 

Thanks for any input!

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MikeMillerGIS
Esri Frequent Contributor

You can add the proposed features to the utility network classes and snap them, but use the Lifecycle Network attribute to set them as Out of Service.  The trace will treat them as a barrier and stop traversing at that location.  The subnetwork definition has a setting to include/exclude barrier features in the definition.  

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