Latest Contributions by DominikAllemann

Hi @ScottEdmondson ,   Thanks for your question.  The calculation section in the metric dialog is a summary of the configured metric connections for a particular metric. To dig deeper into how the values are calculated and what is actually contributing to the final result, I recommend to also inspect the individual metric connections: Switch to the graph view of your metrics. Click Edit connection button ( ) of any metric connection to see the details about a particular connection. For example for the connection between "Net space area" and "Daily trips" you can see that only the space uses of type "Retail" and "Industrial - Warehouse" are contributing:   For the metric connection between "Jobs" and "Daily trips", only 4 space use types are contributing to daily trips. For the connection between "Population" and "Daily trips" you can see that there are no space use type parameters configured - meaning that only the "Household" metric is actually contributing to the number of trips generated by any residential space use.  Even though you might think that some triple counting happens when just looking at the "Daily trips" metrics dialog, you can see that it's not the case when digging deeper into the individual metric connections.  Please don't hesitate to reach out in case of further questions.  Thanks, Dominik ... View more

Hi @ScottEdmondson , Thanks for reaching out.  Regarding the documentation section, as highlighted in your attached screenshot: Our documentation is indeed wrong here. Instead of "search for the ArcGIS Online layer that contains the zoning boundaries" it should say "search for the ArcGIS Online layer that contains the existing metric values". We will fix this in the next documentation update cycle.   Regarding the second part of your question: This documentation topic covers configuring metrics including importing existing metric values on the Urban Model level. Existing metric values can be imported for any metric. Whenever you create a plan, the metrics and existing metric values available on the Urban Model at creation time, are copied to that plan. For projects, only the metrics are copied.  The metrics (plans & projects) and the existing metric values (plans) can also be configured and edited on each plan and project individually. Any edits on metrics and existing metric values on the plan and project level don't impact the metrics and existing metric values configuration on the Urban Model level. There are also dedicated documentation pages for working with metrics on the plan and project level: For plans: https://doc.arcgis.com/en/urban/help/help-analyze-plan.htm For projects: https://doc.arcgis.com/en/urban/help/help-metrics-project.htm @ScottEdmondson wrote: In particular, the discussion of existing conditions data seems to be limited to ONLY pop, household, and jobs, yet one would think that one would be able to -- and need to and want to -- import existing conditions data for every metric one was going to use.  Which particular parts of the documentation made you think that existing metric values can only be configured for pop, households, and jobs? A pointer would be much appreciated. Don't hesitate to reach out in case of further questions.  -Dominik   P.S.: We had a webinar around metrics earlier this year. The recording is available here. Maybe you find it useful.    ... View more

Hi @JemimaGreer , As for the first part of your question: I was recently also looking for some NSW/Australian elevation data and came across this webpage: https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/national-location-information/digital-elevation-data The "packaged data" section lists some elevation datasets you can download. You may find something that suits your needs there as well. I hope this helps—Good luck with the research project. ... View more

Hi @MaximeDemers , Thanks for your question. It is correct that both public feedback and internal discussions are stored outside of the Urban database.  Urban's public feedback and internal discussion capabilities are powered by technology provided by Esri's ArcGIS Hub team. Public feedback is currently stored in a feature layer called "Hub Annotations." This feature layer is created automatically on your ArcGIS Online org the first time you enable "Public Engagement" in any Urban Model on a given org. There is always just one "Hub Annotations" layer per ArcGIS Online org. If you have multiple Urban Models with "Public Engagement" enabled, they will all write to the same feature layer. However, we plan to move away from the "Hub Annotations" layer soon and will start leveraging "hub.js" - a library that allows integrating different functionality provided by ArcGIS Hub.  For the internal discussions we use "ArcGIS Hub Discussions" which is a part of the "hub.js" library. "Hub Discussions" has its own mechanism to store the individual posts. There is currently no function in place yet, that allows exporting them.  Please feel free to submit an ArcGIS Urban Idea if you think such an export capability should be provided by Urban.  In case of additional questions, please reach out. ... View more