Latest Contributions by ChristineLeslie

Hi Jason, you will want to start entering the parcels from scratch into an empty parcel fabric dataset. I will get a mini tutorial ready on how to do that. This would be the best and most correct way of getting parcels from paper in Arcmap. Christine Parcel editing team ... View more

Hi I really dont think there is any way around that unless you mark each as an exception. You could go in and trace in temporary ROW polys to avoid that error, but that also may be tedious. Just and FYI, if you are cleaning the topology for migration into the fabric, you dont need to have the Must Not have Gaps rule in your topology for the data to migrate... Christine Parcel Editor team ... View more

Hi Once you have finished and built the parcel, points 37 and 38 should automatically be detected as line points and moved onto the line, eliminating the gap. What happens when you finish and build the parcel? Christine Parcel Editing team ... View more

Hi Here are some thoughts: Are you editing in a version? If you are building your parcels in a version, sounds like you need to do a reconcile first in the edit session. When you are editing, is the reconcile button greyed out? In default, to commit a job, select the job you want to commit from the job book and then the commit button should enabled. The job you select in default might cover the area you are editing in the version. let me know if any of this helps Christine ... View more

Hi Nick Strange that every single parcel is locked? Only the ones that have been  edited in default will be locked. And yes, you will have to commit the jobs on default and then reconcile so that the parcels on the version become unlocked. let me know if you have any issues Christine Parcel Editor team ... View more

Hi Yes it is. In the topology, make sure to mark the lines that are not covered by parcels as exceptions. The topology loader will import these as unclosed parcels. The only limitation with this is that any attributes on the lines are not transferred into the parcels table - we are fixing that for the next release. However, I am currently writing an Add In that will transfer unclosed parcel attributes from the lines to the parcels table during import. Christine ... View more

David - try commiting the job that was edited to release the locks - The job needs to be committed even on default. The Commit Job command needs to be added from the Customize menu. And yes, we need to get that command back on the job context menu, it should not be hidden in Customize. Christine ... View more

Hi Nick So the solution to this would be to planarize the offset construction lines once you have added them. Then go to the construction grid and delete any extra segments created from by the planarize. What the planarize command does is add construction points at the intersection of any newly added construction lines - which is exactly what you need in this case. Just be sure to check the construction grid afterwards for any extra segments that might be created. The planarize command is located on the Parcel Details dialog. For curve offset lines, it might just be simpler to enter the traverse lines instead of doing the offset Christine ... View more

Hi Nick Sorry - been away on work travel. I am revisiting this and I see the problem - feel free to email me at cleslie@esri.com and we can discuss your workflow further. I will post the solution to this on the forum as well. Christine ... View more

Steve, I will take a look and see if I can come up with a solution Christine ... View more

Oh yes and afterwards make sure to go and delete any unjoined parcels you no longer want/need. Dont want stuff to accumulate under unjoined... ... View more

Hi Nick So essentially what you need to do is create the easement donut polygon for each parcel in the subdivision and then merge them altogether. I found the easiest way to do this is to do the following: 1. Right-click the first parcel you want to work with and click Duplicate to duplicate it. The duplicate parcel is now in the Parcel Explorer window - unjoined. 2. Right-click the unjoined parcel in the Parcel Explorer and click Construction - the parcel will open in the map (or, it was easier for me to work with the parcel in a local coordinate system - standalone). 3. Enter your part connector line: This line will start from an outer corner and go inwards to create the inner boundary if the easement polygon. You will need to calculate this part connector line. It doesnt matter which corners you use. You can also use multiple part connectors in a sequence as well. 4. Starting from the end point of the part connector line, traverse in the inner boundary of the easement - see attached graphic 5. Build and keep all current 6. Join the easement parcel on top of its parent parcel 7. Unjoin and delete the inner, island parcel, you just want to keep the outer, donut easement parcel. I just selected the parcels and found which one the island parcel was using the Parcel Explorer 8. Then do the same for the adjacent parcels. 9.Then select the adjacent easement parcels and merge them See attached graphic - Merged easement parcels So there are a few steps to this workflow, but it is the only way I can think of to achieve want you want short of writing a utility/AddIn that automates some of these steps. Does this help? Christine ... View more

Ok, based on your attached images, I can see what you are trying to do. I will take a look and see if there is a valid workflow out there to facilitate the easement you are trying to create. Definately looks like you will be wanting to work with a "donut" polygon for your easement that spans many parcels in different directions ... 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 ... View more

Hi Nick The only way to improve the overall spatial accuracy of your fabric would be to adjust parcels with correct dimensions to a control network using a least squares adjustment. This would be the most correct way to improve spatial accuracy. To improve topological and informational accuracy(attributes),unjoining old plan data and entering the new plan data and then joining the data would improve your topological and information accuracy. You do not need to run a least squares adjustment to improve topological and information accuracy. To slowly improve overall accuracy over time is to do just what you are doing. Remove/unjoin unreliable or poor quality data and enter in new data subdivision by subdivision - as you get the data. You do not need to wait until the entire fabric is correct to run a least-squares adjustment. Once you have entered in a few adjacent subdivisions, you can go ahead and adjust those subdivisions using their appropriate accuracies. As you do this subdivision by subdivision, your parcel networ will, over time improve and stabalize. A least-squares adjustment should not be used on parcels with unreliable dimensions - ie dimensions that do not match the plan record. The results of such an adjustment would be meaningless. Least-squares adjustments should really only be done on those parcels that have reliable and correct dimensions. That way the best possible spatial location for those parcels will be computed (obviously using good control as well). The LSA behaves best when using meaningful data. However, I still run LSA's on unreliable data but do not apply the results - I run them to see where the most errors are occurring and so on. I also run an LSA to initially transform a parcel network into the control network as well. But any parcel corner coordinates computed from unreliable data will be - unreliable. Let us know if you have any further questions on this Christine ... View more