Latest Contributions by DominikAllemann

The July 2026 release of ArcGIS Urban is now available and introduces several new capabilities to help planners better understand existing conditions, compare redevelopment scenarios, and evaluate the impacts of proposed changes. Understand today's city before planning tomorrow's Many redevelopment projects start with a simple question: What is actually there today? To help answer that question, ArcGIS Urban now includes a new Convert Existing Buildings tool. Existing buildings can be automatically split into floor spaces based on building height, attribute information, or manual floor counts. The generated floor spaces can be assigned space-use types and included directly in metrics calculations. This makes it easier to establish a reliable baseline for existing conditions and compare it against future development scenarios. See our updated "Using Existing Conditions in ArcGIS Urban" blog post to learn more about this functionality. Analyze scenarios with more flexibility The new Metric Filters capability allows metrics to be filtered by development status and space-use type. This enables planners to focus on specific aspects of a scenario, such as residential space, commercial floor area, or the development status. Filter settings can also be used directly within dashboard charts, making it easier to communicate planning outcomes and compare different planning approaches. Create interactive scenario comparison reports The previous spreadsheet export workflow has been replaced by a new Scenario Comparison Report. The report includes interactive pivot tables, customizable charts, and improved support for updating data as scenarios evolve. These enhancements make it easier to evaluate alternatives and share results with project teams, decision-makers, and stakeholders. See the "Compare ArcGIS Urban Planning Scenarios in Excel" blog post to learn more about the new scenario comparison report. Evaluate sunlight impacts This release introduces Sunlight Analysis for plans and projects. Planners can now assess sunlight exposure and better understand how proposed developments influence surrounding buildings and public spaces. With this release, analysis configurations can now also be copied between plans, projects, and urban models, helping maintain consistency across planning efforts. Additional highlights Other improvements included in this release are: Improved template selection experience when creating urban models Introduction of ArcGIS Urban's first regional template for Norway Improved support for sharing and visualizing 3D models in exported web scenes New Last Edited and Edited By information for selected content and layers Check out the “What’s New in ArcGIS Urban (July 2026)” blog, watch the "What's New" video, or read through the release notes for more details.

Hi @TapanDhar1 , Sorry to hear that you are having issues with the installation. The content of the urban.env file looks correct. Did you have to create the container manually? As a last resort, I'd recommend the following steps. If this doesn't resolve the issue for you, please contact Esri support: Remove the exited arcgis-urban container. Recreate the container manually and explicitly point to the urban.env file and the urban certificate directory. To do that, complete the following steps: Find the absolute path to urban.env file Find the absolute path to the urban certificate directory Run the command below and replace the two path placeholders (for urban.env file & for urban certificate directory): docker run -d --name arcgis-urban --env-file "<absolute_path_to_urban.env>" -p 9443:5000 -v "<absolute_path_to_urban_certificate_dir>:/urban-api/certificates" arcgis-urban:latest Let us know if this resolves the issue. Thanks, Dominik

‎04-14-2026

Hi @MLindauLanghelle , Thanks a lot for reaching out and for reporting this behavior. Other users were experiencing the same and we were already working on a fix. Earlier today, we just deployed a hotfix for this issue 😇 . Nice timing, I'd say. Thanks, Dominik

‎02-10-2026

Hi @whadi , I'm sorry to hear that you are experiencing issues after installing Urban in Enterprise 12.0. 1. On what server OS did you install Enterprise? 2. When you get the "Oh Snap" screen in Urban, can you open the browser's dev tools and there check the console and the network tab for any errors? 3. Could you locate the file called "urban.env" on your server, open it with a text editor, and share its content via DM (as it contains information that you may not want to share with the entire world-wide-web)? Thanks, Dominik

‎10-23-2025

Update: @JohnRitsko1 got to the root of the issue. There was an issue with the firewall rules for the port that Urban uses.

‎10-23-2025

Hi @GJameson , Thanks for following up regarding the docker-proxy.exe file. It is not required for Urban. The Urban product documentation will be updated accordingly in the second half of November 2025. Thanks, Dominik

‎10-23-2025

Hi @Bilguuntugs24 Thanks a lot for your question. At the moment, Urban doesn't support changing names or adding additional zoning parameters beyond what is already present. Are you looking to just change the names of the existing parameters or add completely new ones? If you are looking for the latter: Should these parameters also impact the appearance of plausible buildings as you apply building types (as described in the product documentation)? In either case, we would be interested in learning more about your use case. Please feel free to submit an ArcGIS Urban Idea, providing as many details as possible about why you would like to customize the zoning parameters. And if there is a document shedding light on your community's zoning regulations that you could attach to the Idea, even better. The Esri Community Ideas help us better understand our customers' needs and incorporate this valuable feedback in future product development iterations. Thanks, Dominik

‎09-24-2025

Hi @JohnRitsko1 Could you locate the file called "urban.env" on your server, open it with a text editor, and share its content via DM (as it contains information that you may not want to share with the entire world-wide-web)? Thanks, Dominik

‎09-23-2025

Hi @JohnRitsko1 Thank you very much for sharing all those details. Re your question about CLI binaries & the missing "docker-proxy.exe" I will double-check with one of our developers to verify if there's something missing in the downloaded zips accessible from the link in the documentation, or if the documentation would need to be adapted. Re your comment about the FAQ section Thanks for your input. I agree that it would be beneficial if the documentation states what to do if the "arcgis-urban" image/the "arcgis-urban" container is not listed. We will review how to improve that part of the documentation to add more value to our customers. Re getting Urban on your server running From afar, it's difficult to determine exactly what didn't go as it should have. To avoid re-installing the entire system, I suggest trying to load the "arcgis-urban" image manually into Docker. You can complete the following steps to achieve that: Sign in to the server using the account that also runs the Portal service. Locate the file called "urban.tar" (this is the Docker image for Urban; it might be suffixed with the Windows Server version e.g. "urban2022.tar"). On Windows servers, it's usually located at "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Portal\framework\etc\urban" Open PowerShell as administrator and navigate to the folder of "urban.tar". Load the image using the command below: docker load -i urban.tar Loading the image can take a while on Windows Servers (usually anything between 15mins and 30mins) Verify if the image was loaded successfully by running the command below: docker image ls Once the image is available, it will be picked up by the "Portal service" which will create a container out of it. This might take another couple of minutes. Consider restarting the portal service manually to speed things up a bit. Double-check for the creation of the "arcigs-urban" container by running the following command: docker container ls --all The "arcgis-urban" container should now be listed and you can access ArcGIS Urban from the Enterprise Portal. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any further questions. Thanks, Dominik

‎09-23-2025

Hi @JohnRitsko1 , I'm sorry to hear that you are experiencing issues with installing Urban on Enterprise Portal 11.5. Based on your post, it appears that you have already thoroughly followed the instructions outlined in the "Install ArcGIS Urban on Windows" user guide. If you are working with a multi-machine deployment, please ensure that ArcGIS Urban & Docker are installed on the same machine where Portal for ArcGIS is installed. To further narrow down the issue, can you please check the following: Is Docker installed correctly? To check for that, please run the command below in a console (run as administrator): docker run --rm hello-world If yes to the above, is the ArcGIS Urban Docker container available? Check that by running the following command in a console, and check if an image called "arcgis-urban" gets listed: docker image ls --all If yes to the above, please verify that the arcgis-urban container is running. To do that, please run the following command in a console: docker container ls --all This command will list all Docker containers available on your machine, including their status (running, stopped, or exited) Please feel free to DM me screenshots of the outputs from the commands above. I'm sure we'll get Urban running on your Enterprise 11.5 portal soon. Thanks, Dominik

‎07-08-2025

Hi @HassanMahmoud_el07 Thanks for submitting this idea. At the moment, there is no immediate workaround to have internal feedback in Urban on Enterprise that is not relying on ArcGIS Hub.

‎05-15-2025

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

‎12-06-2024

We are excited to share a bunch of Urban release highlights with you! Urban on Enterprise 11.4 ArcGIS Urban for Enterprise 11.4 was released on November 7th, 2024. Urban for Enterprise 11.4 is equivalent to the June 2024 release of Urban on ArcGIS Online. Are you curious about what's new in Urban for Enterprise 11.4? Check out the What's New blog post. Urban on ArcGIS Online December 2024 We released a new version of Urban on ArcGIS Online on December 4th. The highlight of the latest Urban release is the new metrics feature. It takes analysis of your plans to the next level. Check out our blog post for a detailed walkthrough of the new metrics experience. If you were already working with metrics in Urban before the December 2024 release, I'd recommend checking out our blog post about converting your previously configured metrics to the new metrics. Last but not least, check out our What's New blog post and video to learn about this release's other highlights. ArcGIS Urban XR early adopter Want to experience your urban models at a true-to-life scale with a VR headset? With the upcoming ArcGIS Urban – Urban XR add-on, you can place yourself right into the heart of your project with a desktop or VR headset for a new way to share ideas and conduct virtual site reviews. Check out the following resources to learn more about Urban XR: Short video introducing Urban XR Urban XR storymap Sign up for the early adopter program

‎12-06-2024

With Urban's December 2024 release, it's now also possible to input exact dimensions when editing previously created polygons. Additionally, points and polygon vertices can now be placed at specific coordinates when creating new geometries and editing existing ones.

‎12-06-2024

Urban's December 2024 release introduced new metrics. The new metrics introduce new operators and allow you to base the metric calculation on building measurements (such as the height or number of floors of proposed buildings) as well as on parcel measurements (such as the parcel area or the parcel coverage). To learn more, I'd recommend the following resources: - What's New blog post - A detailed walkthrough on the new metrics experience - How to convert your metrics to Urban's new metrics - New metrics in Urban's product documentation

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Latest Contributions by DominikAllemann

ArcGIS Urban July 2026 Release

Re: Is there a Trick to Installing ArcGIS Urban on Enterprise Portal 11.5

Re: PRT error message on creating new Projects

Re: Is there a Trick to Installing ArcGIS Urban on Enterprise Portal 11.5

Re: Is there a Trick to Installing ArcGIS Urban on Enterprise Portal 11.5

Re: Is there a Trick to Installing ArcGIS Urban on Enterprise Portal 11.5

Re: How to Add Custom Parameters (e.g., BCR, People Density) to the Zoning Type Tab in ArcGIS Urban

Re: Is there a Trick to Installing ArcGIS Urban on Enterprise Portal 11.5

Re: Is there a Trick to Installing ArcGIS Urban on Enterprise Portal 11.5

Re: Is there a Trick to Installing ArcGIS Urban on Enterprise Portal 11.5

Re: internal discussion features on ArcGIS enterprise

Re: Adding public infrastructure data to existing buildings

ArcGIS Urban December Release Update

Re: ArcGIS Urban - Improved Drawing Tools - Status changed to: Implemented

Re: Parcel Area Based Metrics - Status changed to: Implemented

ArcGIS Urban July 2026 Release

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ArcGIS Urban December Release Update

ArcGIS Urban June 2024 Release

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