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The Arcmap Editing Environment: Creating and Editing Parcels With Arcgis Desktop

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The ArcMap editing

environment

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Creating and Editing Parcels with ArcGIS Desktop

Lesson 3 overview

Navigating the Editor toolbar

Setting editing options

Working with snapping

Working with topologies

Getting help and shortcut keys

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Creating and Editing Parcels with ArcGIS Desktop

Navigating the Editor toolbar

Editing functions are controlled through the toolbar


Edit
EditTool
Tool

Sketch
SketchTool
Tool

Target
Targetlayer
layer

Attribute
Attribute
dialog
dialog

Sketch
Sketch
Properties
Properties

Task
Tasklist
list

Edit
Editsession
session
commands
commands
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Creating and Editing Parcels with ArcGIS Desktop

Editing options

General: Snapping tolerance and digitize tolerance

Edit task management

Edit Units

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Creating and Editing Parcels with ArcGIS Desktop

Setting angular units

Sketch dialog tools support


different units

Distance
Distance

Meter
Meter- -m
m
Centimeter
Centimeter- -cm
cm
Kilometer
Kilometer- -km
km
Foot
Foot- -ftft
Inch
Inch- -in
in
Yard
yd
Yard - yd
Mile
Mile- -mi
mi
Nautical
Nauticalmile
mile- -nm
nm
Chain
Chain- -ch
ch
Link
lk
Link - lk
Rod
Rod- -rd
rd
US
Survey
US SurveyFoot
Foot- -ftus
ftus
US
USSurvey
SurveyChain
Chain- -chus
chus
US
Survey
Link
lkus
US Survey Link - lkus
US
USSurvey
SurveyRod
Rod- -rdus
rdus
US
Survey
Mile
mius
US Survey Mile - mius

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Direction Units
Decimal degrees
Degrees Minutes Seconds
Grads
Gons
Radians

Direction
Direction

Quadrant
Quadrantbearing
bearing
North
Northazimuth
azimuth
South
Southazimuth
azimuth
Polar
Polar

Creating and Editing Parcels with ArcGIS Desktop

Edit tasks

A sketch works with the current task

Example tasks
Create

New Feature

Reshape
Cut

Current
Currenttask
task

Feature

Polygon Feature

Extend/Trim
Modify

Features

Feature

Auto-Complete

Polygons

Create

2-Point Line Features

Zipper

Task

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Creating and Editing Parcels with ArcGIS Desktop

Using snapping

Layer snapping
Snaps

the sketch to another features edge, vertex, or endpoint

Edit Sketch
Snapping

relative to the current sketch

Perpendicular to sketch
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Creating and Editing Parcels with ArcGIS Desktop

Snapping indicator and snap tips


Snapping
Snapping
indicator
indicator

Status bar
Layer name
Snap agent type

Snap
Snaptip
tip

SurveyFirstDivision : Vertex

If snap tips are turned on

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Creating and Editing Parcels with ArcGIS Desktop

Snap To Feature command

Snapping on-the-fly

Overrides snapping environment settings

Snap to midpoint of a line or polygon boundary


1

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Creating and Editing Parcels with ArcGIS Desktop

Selections

Specify from Selection tab or


selection pull-down menu

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Creating and Editing Parcels with ArcGIS Desktop

Topology in the geodatabase

Helps to ensure spatial data integrity


Finds

topology errors
(user sets the rules)

Fix

Monuments

with ArcMap topology tools

Lot lines

Coincidence based topology

Parcels

Snaps

feature coordinates
(user prioritizes)

One

Zoning

or many feature classes

Feature topology is not stored


Only

properties, rules, and errors

Feature

topology is discovered on-the-fly by ArcMap

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Creating and Editing Parcels with ArcGIS Desktop

Topology rules

Define valid spatial relationships


Between

feature classes or subtypes

Monument Must be covered by endpoint of LotLine


LotLine Must not have dangles
Parcel Must not have gaps

Created with the topology or set as properties

Checked during validation


Errors

are stored in the topology

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Creating and Editing Parcels with ArcGIS Desktop

Validating a topology

Validate snaps geometries based on cluster tolerance

Identifies errors

When to validate topology?


After

initial creation

After

every edit operation

Before
Once

saving

a week

Specific
Specificareas
areas

Entire
Entiretopology
topology

Current
Currentextent
extent
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Creating and Editing Parcels with ArcGIS Desktop

Topology errors

Found during validation


Rule
If

there are no rules, there can be no errors

Stored in topology as specialized features


Use

violations; dangles, overlaps, etc.

ArcMap to find errors

Have properties
What

rule was violated

Which

features caused
the error

Used

by ArcMap edit tools

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Creating and Editing Parcels with ArcGIS Desktop

Getting help

Desktop Help
Contents
Index
Search
Favorites

Other help
Whats

this?

Tool

tips

Shift

+ F1

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Creating and Editing Parcels with ArcGIS Desktop

Shortcut keys
T key Radius displays
snapping tolerance

Sketch Tool

V key Displays vertices of features

All tools on the Editor Toolbar

O key Offset

Trace tool

Z key Zoom in

Rotate tool
Edit Tool
Sketch Tool
Split tool

X key Zoom out


C key Pan
R key Radius
D key Diameter

End Point Arc tool


Distance-Distance tool
Direction-Distance tool

Ctrl Move selection anchor

End Point Arc tool


Distance-to-Distance tool
Direction-Distance tool

Shift + S Snap anchor for rotate

Scale tool
Rotate tool

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Creating and Editing Parcels with ArcGIS Desktop

Exercise 3 overview

Set symbology and create a layer file

Set the editing environment

Explore the study area

Work with topologies

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Creating and Editing Parcels with ArcGIS Desktop

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