Latest Contributions by AmirBar-Maor

Thanks for the input @AdamHart1  1. Do you also merge 2 collinear curves that have the same radius (e.g. around a cul-de-suc)? 2. Are you able to make the decision whether or not to merge the lines when you merge the parcels? ... View more

@AdamHart1  Beyond the great tips above, we would like to improve the software. 1. Do you always merge lines after merging parcels? 2. Why do you do it? Is this done in order to meet a tax map standard? 3. Would you also do it if the lines are not collinear? if not - is there a tolerance or is that more a cartographic thing? 4. If the merged lines have different COGO Direction values we would have to set the Direction on the merged line as NULL. Would that be OK?   Thanks, Amir         ... View more

The traverse tool has always respected the project unit settings for direction, distance, and  angles ... View more

Thanks @RichardFairhurst  This has always worked for the traverse in ArcGIS Pro.  The comment I've made regarding "using ArcGIS Pro 2.8"  was designed to make sure we are comparing "apples to apples". So make sure to set your project unit settings. Regarding the missing symbol of the feature template when for the first course of the first entered traverse  - we plan to fix this bug.   ... View more

@MonteKing  Thanks for the input. So far we know that anyone that maintains PLSS would be using it (BLM, state custodians, BIA, USFS) but we were trying to understand if there is anyone else. Local governments in the US usually survey the physical section corners using high accuracy GNSS and have never expressed interest in other direction types.  However, all customers need to be able to enter historic information that uses the old survey technics before the total station era. Thanks for sharing Jerry's Wahl paper. IMHO it would be great if every PLSS monument was surveyed using survey-grade GNSS and its coordinates, epoch, and accuracy published for the next generations. Some PLSS custodians are more progressive and some are more traditional. Some accept surveys from other agencies and some only trust their own surveyors. Maybe such a discussion is better suited for this group: https://community.esri.com/t5/plss-editing/gh-p/plss-editing  ... View more

@RichardFairhurst  Using ArcGIS Pro 2.8 you can change the angular default units from decimal degrees to DMS: Then to enter a delta angle in the traverse you have 2 options. The first is to use the 'd' override for 'd'elta angle. It will continue to show the 'd' override and respect the dashes as separators (not a minus sign for substraction): The second option is to change the column header to Delta Angle. If you set your project anular units to DMS it will pic it up as the default:   Regarding how the values are stored on a 'COGO Enabled' line feature class: directions are stored in decimal degrees north azimuth, distances and radiuses are stored in the units of the spatial reference (for PCS), To define a curve radius and ArcLength are stored. So if you define the curve using radius and chord length or radius and delta angle it will still store it as ArcLength. If you want to also store a delta value for curves you can use an attribute rule (just make sure to only calculate it if the radius bigger than zero): // return delta angle in degrees given a radius and arclength var r = 1; //radius var al = 3.14159; //arclength var delta = (al/r)*(180/PI); return delta; Amir ... View more

@JeffWard & @jcarlson Thank you for helping and sharing your experience! Would it make sense if we schedule meetups in which the prime goal is to see workflows, challenges and have the community brainstorm / share their experience? Of course - people will have to feel comfortable sharing their screens. Just an idea. Thoughts?!   ... View more

@Lebowski  Would it make sense to meet with you where you can: - Explain your use-case - Show us your data - Better understand your challenge - Examine the results   Thanks, Amir ... View more

Would anyone use it outside of CadNSDI (PLSS - US Public Land Survey System)? @MikeZummo  When you are entering a 'true mean bearing' direction, do you also have the turning points? meaning - do you have the point and coordinates at the line extremities that you would need to snap to? @nancyvonmeyer what is your take on the use of true mean bearing on BLM plats? Are they really observed using theodolites in the 21 century? or inversed from GNSS?     ... View more

@DennisTebo  Interesting idea. We would like to better understand the workflow. 1. Are you suggesting that upon creating the new record, the combination (scale) factor is entered as an attribute? 2.  Can the user change the ground to grid correction or is it now "set in stone" as long as that record is the active record? 3. Would we expect to see all the lines created have that value on their Scale field? 4. Would we expect it to work the other way? = if you have an active record and a specific field, to see it populated if you set the ground to grid correction?   Looping in @TimHodson      ... View more

@joshuaforeman  So far the only organization we know of that uses true mean bearing is BLM. We would like to know if anyone else is using it. Do you also work for/with BLM? Thanks, Amir   ... View more

Hi Josh, It's good to know your persistence paid off but I can;t left to wonder what the issue was. The upgrade process requires latest geodatbase version, and since it was successful we can eliminate that as the reason. As you also figured out, it seems to be something to do with the connection between the server to the datastore. Maybe a server cache was the issue. I don't know if you tried to "refresh" the server by restarting the service or rebooting the server machine. Good to know it works out. Amir   ... View more