The parcel editing

process

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Lesson 4 overview

The business process of establishing new parcels

Updating maps process

Data issues

Establishing the Point of Beginning (POB)

Making data adjustments

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Generalized business processes

This class is only meant to cover updating maps!

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Mapping process
Receive Data

Create/Delete Lines

Adjust Lines

Create/Delete Polygons

Create/Modify Annotation

Save/Post Changes

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Data formats
Receive Data

Plat
Deed

CAD Data

Text file of calls

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Line work
Create/Delete Lines

PLSS Corner

Typing COGO
Calls

Road Intersection
Sketch Tools

The main regional difference

is where to start the traverse?

Coordinates
Copy Features
Tool

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Other???

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Coordinate geometry (COGO) overview

Capture survey data to create ArcGIS data

Creates and attributes data simultaneously

Used in applications
requiring accurate/precise
coordinate geometry

Survey data consists of

Angles

(directions) and
distance measurements

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COGO line feature class

Standard line feature class containing required fields

Field

Type

Description

Direction *

Text

Direction of a line segment

Distance

Text

Length on line segment

Radius

Text

Radius of curve

Tangent (Length)

Text

Tangent length of curve

ArcLength

Text

Arc length of curve

Side

Text

Side the radius point is located

Create using Create Cogo Fields tool

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The POB and PLSS

How you find a POB will depend on where you are

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Adjustments
Adjust Lines
Old parcel

Closing traverses

New parcel

(this decision should be made by surveyors)

Old parcel

Old parcel

Rotating
Snapping
Planarizing
Zipping

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What to adjust to what?

Old parcels to new parcels?

Use Air Photo as basemap?

Local reference grid?

Rotating

Using the
Zipper Task

Moving topology nodes

Adjusting to
photography

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Creating parcels from line work

Create/Delete Polygons

Construct Features tool uses selected lines

Creates new feature in Target layer

Can consider existing features

Split
Splitpolygons
polygons

Append
Appendpolygons
polygons

ArcCatalog tool for processing whole datasets

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Annotation
Create/Modify Annotation

Annotation specifications also vary greatly from place to place

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Saving and posting changes

Save/Post Changes

Save Edits for personal GDB

With SDE GDB Reconcile

and/or Post

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What this class doesnt cover

PIN Generation

Related Tables

GDB Modeling

Survey Analyst

PLSS

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What this class covers

Editing Tools

Editing Shortcuts

COGO

Subdivisions

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Exercise 4 overview

Locate study area and add parcel lines

Update COGO attributes

Construct polygons from lines

Create annotation

Save your edits

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