Parcel mapping is the cornerstone of modern land development and management, providing the critical spatial framework for legal, economic, and planning decisions. Ensuring the accuracy of these maps is not merely a technical exercise—it is essential for fostering trust in land records, minimizing boundary disputes, and streamlining development processes. Accurate parcel data enables stakeholders to make informed decisions confidently, reducing errors and inefficiencies that can lead to costly delays or legal challenges.

But how can we systematically analyze and evaluate the accuracy of parcel mapping? This involves more than a surface-level review; it requires an in-depth assessment using well-defined methodologies. We delve into the critical aspects of parcel accuracy—geometric, geographic, topological, attribute, and temporal accuracy—and the techniques used to measure and ensure precision in each area. Collectively, these pillars of accuracy establish the reliability and usability of parcel maps, supporting the diverse needs of developers, surveyors, planners, and property owners.

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This ArcGIS workshop focused on the Parcel Fabric Structure, examining the default components of the Parcel Fabric in ArcGIS and its role in managing, organizing, and maintaining parcel data. Topics included the Parcel Fabric Data Model, the Records feature class, Parcel Types, the Points feature class, the Connection Lines feature class, and the Topology and Attribute Rules.

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In this workshop, in addition to exploring the standard Record-Driven workflow associated with parcel maintenance in the Parcel Fabric, including Merging parcels, splitting using a Metes and bounds description, splitting a parcel using an Aliquot description, and combining workflows to build Subdivisions and Lots, we integrated some quality control components that are used for checking for overlaps and gaps and updating dimension labels.

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This workshop continues introducing the concepts of topology and reviewing how they are implemented in ArcGIS Pro. It also looked at validating the relationship between feature classes and within a single feature class using subtypes.

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In this month’s workshop, we are honored to present MNC, which showcases the web-based survey plan checker applications they’ve developed for jurisdictions across Canada and the US. These powerful tools perform business rule checks on CAD data, validating survey content, spatial integrity, and formatting. These applications provide real-time CAD file verification, ensuring precise data accuracy, reducing manual errors, and improving overall efficiency.

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This month’s workshop introduced the concepts of topology and reviewed how it is implemented in ArcGIS Pro. This workshop was intended to be a general primer on topology and discuss planning topology, establishing topology rules, and validating topology to identify errors in your data.

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This workshop reviewed how gaps and overlaps, mismatched distances, and short lines are discovered and corrected in the Parcel Fabric. Although many of these techniques have been covered before, we will group them together and provide a single, consistent way to identify and correct these issues.

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In this workshop, we explored several simple ways to make editing in ArcGIS Pro easier and more streamlined. Among the tips included Configuring Enable and Disable Editing, Resetting the Panes for Editing, Autosaving Edits, creating backup project files, clearing the display cache, customizing the Quick Access Toolbar, using Inference, and creating and modifying feature templates for editing.

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We are at the 2024 ESRI User Conference in San Diego, so there is no workshop today!!

If you are here, find us, and let’s talk parcels!!

IN observance of Independence Day, we will not be having a workshop today. Happy 4th!!!

This workshop reviewed and demonstrated many approaches to identifying and correcting problem parcels in our Parcel Fabrics, including correcting densified curves, using the merge points, shrink to seed and reconstruct from seed tools. While we have previously reviewed many of these approaches, this workshop also discussed why specific approaches work better than others.

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Many of us are facing the transition from our old trusted friend, ArcMap, to ArcGIS Pro. This workshop reviews the knowledge and skills needed to navigate this change effectively.

In this workshop, we will delve deeper into the various aspects, including user interface, project structures, and editing tools, and address data restructuring requirements. These are crucial topics that will significantly impact your work with ArcGIS Pro.

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The ArcGIS Parcel Fabric is a powerful tool that offers a comprehensive solution for managing land parcel data. It has advanced capabilities for data integrity, accuracy, history tracking, and compliance with cadastral standards. These advantages make it a preferred choice for all organizations maintaining land records. There are many things to consider as you make that change to be successful. This workshop discusses many items that must be considered and how to ensure you are prepared as you make the decision.

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Many of us are faced with transitioning from our old trusted friend, ArcMap, to ArcGIS Pro. This workshop reviewed some of the knowledge and skills needed to navigate this change effectively. We dove into various aspects, including user interface, project structures, and editing tools, and address data restructuring requirements.

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The ArcGIS Parcel Fabric is highly regarded for its extensive features and functionalities in handling land parcel data. Its advanced tools ensure data integrity, accuracy, historical tracking, and compliance with cadastral standards. It is the top choice for various organizations and agencies engaged in land administration, cadastral mapping, real estate activities, and urban planning tasks.

Participants delved into additional tools to enhance parcel maintenance efficiency during the workshop. These tools include the COGO Types attribute field within lines feature classes, labeling customization using COGO Type, boundary reconstruction, identifying gaps and overlaps through Highlight functionality, lineage chart creation, and schema report generation, providing a comprehensive approach to proficient parcel management.

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This presentation was a discussion and overview by Ned Cake and Dan Thomas of the Tallahassee - Leon County GIS ArcGIS Online Organization and how others can better use their accounts. It included discussions about content management, layers, maps, apps, galleries, branding, metadata, groups, categories, basemaps, user administration, data maintenance, user-edited content, and best practices.

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This workshop will review the many changes and new Parcel Fabric functionalities available in ArcGIS Pro, including lineage charts, Before and After maps and enhancements to the Highlight Gaps and Overlaps functionality.

During this workshop, we further explored the parcel fabric advantages over basic polygons for parcel management. We focused on manipulating parcel locations and boundaries through various tools available within the parcel fabric system, including merge points, shrink-to-seed, reconstruct-from-seed, and manipulating the different topology settings.

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We have been discussing for months why ArcGIS Pro is so much better than ArcMap, especially the advanced tools and editing. We built on that discussion to show why the Parcel Fabric is better than simple polygons when managing parcels and why it is the best solution for maintaining parcels. In this workshop, we discussed the advantages, including Structure, Functionality, Workflow, and Transparency.

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In this workshop, we explored how to use the ArcGIS Pro extrusion process to display 3D parcels within the Parcel Fabric. By adding a few new attributes and setting the display properly, you can start to view your parcels in 3D. In addition, we will discuss how to use the Range Selector to select what level parcels are displayed and selectable.

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In this workshop, we will simple feature classes for lines and polygons and demonstrate how to create and maintain parcel data outside the Parcel Fabric using ArcGIS Pro tools and techniques.

While we are a huge advocate of using the Parcel Fabric, many Clients have expressed reluctance to move into the Parcel Fabric for resource issues. This workshop will demonstrate how to move to ArcGIS Pro for Parcel Mapping.

This should be a great discussion - please join us.

Due to its proximity to the Holidays, we have decided to Cancel this workshop and focus on the next year.

In this workshop, we examined the various techniques for mapping easement rights in ArcGIS Pro, both simple features and the Parcel Fabric. We looked at simple strip easements, and easements in subdivisions and explore the tools used to construct them. Since we demonstrated both simple features and the Parcel Fabric, you could compare the efforts to construct and the resulting data to help you understand the differences.

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During this workshop, we explored various ways to use Geometric Construction techniques in ArcGIS Pro. These techniques do not use COGO (coordinate geometry), but use other means to ensure the geometric relationships between features are correctly maintained. The constraints and tools reviewed include Line Construction Tools, Parallel, Perpendicular, Distance, Circular Arcs, Spiral Curve, Copy Parallel, Extend or Trim, Continue Feature, Line Intersection, Fillet, Array, Mirror, and Offset. This was a great refresher in mapping things “old school”.

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To build on a topic discussed recently, we took some time to explore some of the options available in the ArcGIS Parcel Fabric to identify and “fix” bad data. What is “bad” data and how do we determine the “best” way to fix it? Among the topics were: using shrink to seed and reconstruct from seed, mismatched distances, too short, and identifying and fixing features missing record information.

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In this workshop we explored the way in which georeferencing an image in ArcGIS Pro occurs, how it works, and why we would do that. In addition, we explored the use of Editing Grids and the Inference constraints.

It is a good “throwback” and review that could benefit everyone.

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The latest version of the ArcGIS Parcel Fabric allows for the creation of “Strata Parcels”, parcels containing sufficient information from which 3-dimensional parcels can be extracted. This presentation explores the ways in which we have mapped Condominiums in the past, the new “Strata Parcels” and discusses the process by which they are created and used in property assessment.

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Responding to a few questions from our clients, we looked at various workflows for “fixing” or correcting previous mapping errors. In addition, we discussed how to use the Shrink to Seed and Reconstruct Parcels instead of Align Parcels, how to append lines to records, and discussed the difference between 2-point COGO lines and polylines and when to use each.

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In this workshop, we have Jason Cox, Application Systems Analyst II for TLCGIS, presenting and demonstrating how to use the Image Analyst extension and Deep Learning to extract and develop extensive data sets from imagery for generating service road/parking lane data, colorization of black and white photographs, extracting building footprints, and change detection between two sets of imagery.

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Following up on last month’s Fundamentals I workshop, we further explored the fundamentals of how the Parcel Fabric works and how to use it best to manage your Land Records. Topics this month included: Record Driven Workflows, Quality Driven Workflows, History, and simple splits and divides.

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We have been involved with the ArcGIS Parcel Fabric since its inception and, considering this experience, we feel the need to go back and look again at why you should choose the Parcel Fabric, how it works and what advantages the Parcel Fabric holds over traditional parcel mapping.

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