Latest Contributions by ChrisBuscaglia

The segmented line tool will create new lines or divide an existing line into many equally proportioned lines. http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Creating_segmented_construction_lines/001t000003z6000000/ To answer you 3rd question Mark, the most appropriate method would be to associate your new monument to an existing Parcel Fabric corner and adjust the data.  Let me know if you need more specifics, but here is a link to the Least Squares and linking existing network (corner) points to new Control Points. http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Linking_control_points_to_fabric_points/001t0000014n000000/ http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Running_a_fabric_least_squares_adjustment/001t0000014v000000/ ... View more

Christine, I apologize for the late response.  The link helps a little bit.  It will be very helpful in situations where I need to draw plats that contain known distances between points.  What I am really looking for is a convenient way to divide a section into 16 quarter sections.  In this case I will need to divide a line into equal segments.  I am aware that I can manually calculate the distances that a line needs to be.  However, having to use windows calculator is slow, and would hope that there is a more efficient workflow. See also with http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/7569-quarter-quarter-sections?p=92925#post92925 Give the segmented line tool a try, it will create a bunch of new construction lines and replace the underlying one if you are using the 'Construct from Parent' method.  If you need to create some construction lines from scratch in an empty construction this will work as well. http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Creating_segmented_construction_lines/001t000003z6000000/ Thanks! Chris ... View more

Tiffany, this is actually supported through the core tools but you have to create a new plan in the Plan Directory, right click and load traverse file. This isn't as convenient as loading directly into the grid, but is a workaround. Chris ... View more

It looks like there are two points very close together, one was picked up as a line-point and for some reason the other wasn't.  Can you please turn on regular points and then send another screenshot of your "detailed view"?  Thanks As a side note, there is a "topology" threshold for line-points.  By default, the line-cracking tolerance is set to 100cm.  This can be changed using a registry key, please also let me know if this gap is larger than 100cm. Thanks, Chris ... View more

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Hello Roger, Congratulations on creating your parcel fabric, that is good news.  The next step is to right click and copy the entire Feature Dataset that contains your Parcel Fabric and paste it into a SDE GeoDatabase. Then all you have to do is register it as versioned, create some versions for your editors to use and start editing!  Let me know if you need some additional help. Chris - Parcel Editing Team ... View more

Dan, this should work. Can you please attach a small sample group of these non-contiguous parcels? As for the registry key, are you sure that the Cadastral sub-folder isn't there, are you navigating to desktop 10.0 via HKEY_CURRRENT_USER? Chris ... View more

Nick, have you tried using the Construct from parent command on multiple parcels? See this link http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Creating_new_parcels_from_multiple_existing_parcels/001t000003z5000000/ Now in the above link in the screenshots, I selected those 4 parcels, and did a Construct from parent. I then used the Parallel Offset command to offset a construction line to represent the split line I will use to create the easement. I then marked the internal lines Unbuildable (dont want to use those lines as split lines). Then I built the parcels, keeping all of them current. Now this process will build two parcels, one on either side of the split line - just delete the parcel you dont want and keep the easement parcel you do want. Does this help? Christine Christine is correct and think that this would be a great approach, let us know if it works as you would expect... ... View more

Easement are important, if you have all the information for them.  I've found that many tax-assessment shops rarely track them.  The County clerk/recorder would have to store them for easy retrieval and a deed examiner route them to the mapping office.  Easements are easily managed when they are included on new subdivisions and merge and split deed descriptions, but harder when recorded with straight-transfer and other documents. With that being said, if you have easements and would like them to be included, they are best suited for the "encumbrance" layer as parcels if you use the local government GDB and Parcel Editing template.  And to answer your question about accuracy...they need to have a low accuracy weighting for the Least-Squares adjustment (Fabric Adjustment or LSA).  I would give them a "6" accuracy, or maybe even a "7".  Accuracy 6 will have little or no influence on the LSA and Accuracy 7 will be excluded completely from any Fabric adjustment. Hope this helps. Chris ... View more

A couple questions: Did the parcel close?  In other words, the initial start point (POB) match the end point? Are you trying to create an un-closed parcel, or a closed loop? Can you send (attach) the Cadastral XML file for the new parcel? Thanks Chris ... View more

Nick, These are just Layers built off the Parcel Fabric sub-layers, at 10.0 these were made editable by the parcel editor if they share the same source.  To create these, just right click a Parcel Fabric sub-class and choose to 'Save as Layer File'.  Make sure that the feature template is setting the value in the definition query if you use one on the layer.  If you need a reference, use the Organize Feature Template tool on the Tax Parcel Editing Map document to see how it's set up. Thanks Chris ... View more

Hello Emilio and others, I'm trying to understand the performance issues that everyone has been reporting.  Since the Parcel Fabric is comprised of a series of feature classes and tables, it shouldn't be any slower than other layers.  Things like copy/paste and import XML workspace, etc. will tend to have a slower performance because the shear girth of the dataset.  To really get to the bottom of the performance issue, I would urge you to open a tech support request and supply just the 9.3.1 data.  The tech support technician should be able to perform the test on 9.3.1 and then the same test on 10.0 to compare. As for the question about Parcel Fabric size, there is no limitation on the amount of data loaded into the Parcel Fabric.  The size would be governed only by the available disc space on the Server.  Of course, with very large datasets, database tuning becomes more important.  I would also make sure the department hosting the data (IT) is in-line with ESRI's best practices for ArcSDE Server administration. Hope this helps, please respond with tech support incident numbers so that I can track progress. ... View more

You may want to email the Land Records team for more direct support, or post a comment on the resource center directly.  There is a XML config file that needs to be properly set up to point at your services and fields to make this work properly, and from this error it seems that this is the problem. Attribute 'dojotype' is not a valid attribute of element 'div'. C:\GIS\JavaScript\ParcelViewer\Application\Index.h tml 264 25 C:\...\ParcelViewer\ The people on this email alias can get you going in the right direction. arcgisteamlandrecords@esri.com http://resources.esri.com/landrecords/index.cfm?fa=codeGalleryDetails&scriptID=16390 ... View more

Hello David, I've tried to reproduce your performance degradation on SQL Server 2008 with a copy of your data.  I cannot reproduce any noticeable slowdown, but would like to know more about the SQL Server configuration. Can you please submit a tech support request and then let me know what the incident # is?  They should be able to get to the bottom of it. Thanks Chris ... View more

Brent, there is a new add-in to merge parcel lines and then automatically generate line-points.  It's on the land records blog, please feel free to add any comments. http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/localgovernment/default.aspx http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/localgovernment/archive/2010/07/28/Parcel-Editor-Add_2D00_In-Enhances-Parcel-Management-in-ArcGIS-10.aspx Thanks Chris ... View more