Latest Contributions by JeffWard

Is the address table consistent in having the address separated from the city and zone by a comma?  It's not ideal, but you could run it through a script that would strip out the address portion. Or in the field calculator you could use python - !ADDRESS!.split(',')[0] ... View more

A workaround might be to create two dual range locators and put them in a composite locator.  One that matches zones, one that doesn't.  You can specify whether zones are required on the properties of the individual locators. ... View more

Chris, I think that would be very helpful.  You might want to add an increment value, our unit numbers don't always increment by 1. Thanks, Jeff ... View more

We have multiple units per floor, so that wouldn't work unless we cut out each floor using the floor plan.  I really don't want to do that. Thanks for the suggestion though. ... View more

You might need to get your esri account to be the point of contact for your organization to be able to access the downloads.  When you purchase the license you are allowed one person to contact esri tech support and that person also has access to the downloads at My Esri.  You can probably call customer service to see who that is and use that account to download the data or get it switched to your profile. ... View more

Alex, You can change the default geocoding service to your own geocoding service in Edit Settings->Utility Services-> Geocoding. You can delete Esri's if you want to, I have.  It will come back if you delete your personal geocoding services. Hope that helps, Jeff Ward Summit County, Utah GIS Coordinator ... View more

So I have done some experimenting with getting these condo records entered more quickly.  (I had 170 of them yesterday) I am skipping the attributes window method - it was too much effort to enter each condo one at time, especially when several records share the same attributes (page index, floor, building number).  So I open the table and just enter the individual unit numbers by clicking in the unit number field in the bottom empty record to create a new record, I enter its unit number, hit enter and enter the next unit number until I have created all of the new records and entered the unit numbers for that building.  I then select all of those new records and use the field calculator to populate the rest of the fields.  Just make sure you have records selected when calculating fields otherwise the whole table gets that value in that field. Still not very efficient, but better than using the attributes window. If anyone has a better way, please let me know. Thanks, Jeff ... View more

I am marking this post as the answer since it did answer the original question. ... View more

Tim, Thanks for getting that in the system.  I had an incident for a previous case, but I didn't describe the problem to the analyst very well, so they couldn't reproduce it.  I should have done the simple test case back then. As far as I can tell it only happens when the new parcel departs from the original on curves. Thanks, Jeff ... View more

Please forgive me for a long and image laden post. I don't know that this is a rotation/scale issue.  I am thinking it is something to do with how the fabric deals with breaking up curves when they are part of a remainder.  Here is another case: Part of lot 1 of the North Silver Lake Subdivision is being amended by Bellevue Phase One.  Both subdivisions use the same tie point, the lines shared by both subdivisions are identically described.  When I join Bellevue to the fabric, the residuals are pretty tight - the highest was around 0.005.  The rotation on Bellevue before the remainder is 359.99954°.  The rotation for North Silver Lake Sub is 359.99981°.  Scales are 1.000006 and 1.000005 respectively.  Here is a screen shot of North Silver Lake Sub before the remainder, note the radial bearing for curve 4-6: Here is what it looks like after the remainder, notice the radial bearing for curve 29-30 is not the same as the parent curve: My theory is that the chord bearing from the parent curve is somehow corrupting the new curve.  I am willing to bet that point 30 lies along the chord bearing of the parent curve and throwing all of the other lines off. I just did a simple test that proves my theory.  I first created this subdivision - Then this one inside of the parent and joined it. After performing the remainder, I get the following: And - Everything looks fine after the remainder, but no acreage is calculated.  You only see the problem after you open the two resulting parcels from the remainder task.  Both of those curves are retaining the original chord bearing of the parent parcel instead of being recalculated.  Because of the mountainous terrain of our county, splits happen on curves quite frequently (at least 3 times in the past month). I am thinking this is a bug. ... View more

Thanks so much Tim Hodson‌. ... View more

Chris, I have never understood what the Compiled from Records field was and how it impacts the fabric.  I asked what the field did a while ago in the old forums and I didn't get much response.  I now realize I should have found it here but missed it for some reason.  The way I understand it now is if Compiled From Records is True the dimensions for the polygon were calculated by inverting the lines. I don't want this to happen in this case. Would it be better to select the original tax parcel and perform a "Construct from Parent" task, marking the original as historic?  The only down side I see to this method is the new parcel shares the same plan as the old one, but I can change that in the attributes. Thanks, Jeff ... View more

Thanks for the info Tim Hodson‌ After messing around with this some more I noticed that the remainder parcel has a misclose ratio of 1:96 after the remainder task.  It was 1:83663 before.  The parcel used to perform the remainder has a misclose ratio of 1:100000.  When I open the remainder it now has a misclose distance of 30 feet. I am suspecting I am running into issues with curves, the new parcel joins with the old parcel's boundary at two curves.  I did join at all of the shared vertices and the radial points.  Am I going to have to rebuild the new tax parcel from scratch to fix it? Thanks, Jeff ... View more