Use Parcel Drafter

The Parcel Drafter solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you capture parcel boundaries as documents are filed and can be integrated into a larger land records workflow that produces a complete inventory of tax parcels, subdivisions, lots, and related encumbrances.

In this topic, you’ll learn how to use the solution by assuming the role of a user and performing the workflows below.

Note:

Use your organization's data or configured apps to follow these workflows.

Provide parcel descriptions

Parcel Drafter can be used to provide metes-and-bounds descriptions and check for closure errors to verify survey information prior to submission.

Add a parcel

You will start by assuming the role of a mapping technician in a tax assessment office who is responsible for checking a new parcel description. You are asked to use Parcel Drafter to provide a metes-and-bounds description and check for closure errors to verify survey information prior to submission.

1. In a browser, sign in to your ArcGIS organization, and then browse to the Parcel Drafter solution.
2. View the Parcel Drafter app.
3. Use the Search widget to find a parent parcel or address.
4. Click the Enter a property description button to open the widget.
5. In the widget, click the Start New Traverse button, and then either click the map or specify X,Y coordinates to start drafting a parcel.

   Before starting a new description, you will choose appropriate units.

6. In the widget, at the top right, click the Settings button, and then use the drop-down lists to choose the units that best represent the units of the incoming document.
7. At the top of the pane, click the Back arrow to return to the New Traverse template.
8. Under New Traverse, to the left of Bearing, click the red connection line to open a drop-down list.
9. Choose either Boundary or Connection as the line type of your parcel traverse leg.
10. For Bearing, Length, and Radius, type the dimensions of the parcel traverse, and then click the Add button on the right to add a new leg.

    As you type the dimensions, the traverse lines are drawn on the map from the starting point. Optionally, you can use the Digitize tool below the New Traverse grid to manually draw the parcel boundaries.

    Tip:

    To provide a bearing in degrees/minutes/seconds using quadrant bearing, type the values in one of the following formats: 20-25-25-3 (3 is the shortcut for the southwest quadrant) or S20-25-25W.

    When providing a bearing in decimal degrees, type the value in the following format: 20.2525.

11. Optionally, update the angle and scale during the traverse to rotate and scale new lines.

    Tip:

    After providing the first line of the traverse (and if rotation or scale values have not been specified), you can rotate the line to fit the underlying geometry (for example, section line, parcels, or other survey lines). All subsequent lines will be applied this rotation, but the records, bearings, and distances will be captured as provided.

12. Click Save.

Edit parcels

Next, you will assume the role of a mapping technician in a tax assessment office who is responsible for editing parcel descriptions. You are asked to use Parcel Drafter to edit a metes-and-bounds description and check for closure errors.

1. In a browser, sign in to your ArcGIS organization, and then browse to the Parcel Drafter solution.
2. View the Parcel Drafter app.
3. In the Enter a property description widget, click Edit Traverse.
4. Click an existing parcel, and then edit the traverse or attribute information.
5. Click Save.