ROW and Easement Data Management can be used to develop an inventory of public rights-of-way and easements and share right-of-way and easement information with internal and external stakeholders.
In this topic, you'll learn how to configure the ROW and Easement Data Management solution to meet specific needs of your organization.
Organize your data
ROW and Easement Data Management can be used to develop an inventory of public rights-of-way and easements and share right-of-way and easement information with internal and external stakeholders.
Rights-of-way (ROW) and easements describe the legal right to pass through, or use, land for a specific purpose. Typically, rights-of-way are dedicated through land development to a government agency and provide the public the right to travel freely. Easements are generally conveyed through platted subdivisions, surveys, and other recorded documents and used to gain access to someone else's property for a specific purpose.
Current and historical ROW and easement data can be loaded into the ROW and Easement Data Management solution. Four foundational parcel types (RightsOfWay, Easements, Subdivisions, and TaxParcels) are included and are extensions of the Parcel Fabric. Some organizations will not have an initial inventory of ROW and easements; in this case, you will use the schema and workflow included with the ROW and Easement Data Management solution to develop a ROW and easement repository from record information.
| Parcel Type | Description |
|---|---|
RightsOfWay | Dedicated areas through land development to a governmental agency to provide the public the right to travel freely |
Easements | Divisions of land conveyed through platted subdivisions, surveys or other recorded documents to gain access to property for a specific purpose |
Subdivisions | Divisions of land created at the same moment through platted subdivisions, surveys, or other recorded documents |
TaxParcels | Divisions of land for the sole purpose of equitable taxation |
Configure ROW and Easement Data Management
The ROW and Easement Data Management solution includes an ArcGIS Pro project and sample data you can use to explore data management workflows. When you are ready to configure the project, a series of tasks are included to help you review the schema, make modifications to the maps and layers, load your data, and optionally migrate into ArcGIS Enterprise.
- Sign in to your ArcGIS organization and browse to the ROW and Easement Data Management Desktop Application Template.
- Open the item page and click Download.
- Unzip and open the ROW and Easement Data Management ArcGIS Pro project.
- On the View tab, in the Windows group, click Catalog Pane.
- In the Catalog pane, expand the Tasks folder, and double-click the ROW and Easement Data Management task.
- In the Tasks pane, expand the How to Configure ROW and Easement Data Management task group.
Define spatial reference
The ROW and Easement Data Management project comes with two file geodatabases. ROW and Easement Data Management Sample.gdb contains data designed to help test workflows supported in the solution.
ROW and Easement Data Management.gdb is an empty geodatabase with the same schema and a spatial reference set to Web Mercator. You can use this geodatabase to define your spatial reference and load your data.
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Alternatively, you can specify a coordinate system in the data frame of the Editing map instead of defining your spatial reference in the geodatabase. This will allow you to edit in your local coordinate system and store the data in Web Mercator.
To define the spatial reference, follow the steps in the Define spatial reference task.
Review and configure schema
The ROW and Easement Data Management project comes with a predefined schema that describes the feature classes, relationship classes, and domains included in the ROW and Easement Data Management geodatabase.
To modify the ROW and Easement Data Management layers, follow the steps in the Review and configure schema task.
Load your data
When you have completed any schema modifications, you can load your existing data into the ROW and Easement Data Management layers by following the steps in the Load your data task.
Configure maps, layers, and rules
The Editing map comes with a collection of predefined feature templates used to construct new features. You may want to update the feature templates, modify which construction tools are available, or change the default attributes to be applied when the feature is created.
The ROW and Easement Data Management solution can use attribute rules to help automate many of the editing workflows.
To modify the map, feature templates, and add attribute rules, follow the steps in the Configure maps, layers, and rules task.
Load into ArcGIS Enterprise
While everything included with the ROW and Easement Data Management solution is supported in a file geodatabase, some organizations may choose to manage this data in ArcGIS Enterprise. In ArcGIS Enterprise, the ROW and Easement Data Management solution requires branch versions to evaluate the validation rules and branch versioned datasets that need to be published as a feature service to edit in ArcGIS Pro.
To copy the ROW and Easement Data Management schema into ArcGIS Enterprise and publish as a branch versioned feature service, follow the steps in the Load into ArcGIS Enterprise task.
Share ROW and easement data
The ROW and Easement Data Management solution includes the ParcelPublication hosted feature layer, which can be used to share record, ROW, easement, and parcel information with stakeholders in your organization.
To publish ROW, easements, and parcels, follow the steps in the Share ROW and Easement data task.
Configure ROW and Easement Research app
The ROW and Easement Data Management solution includes the ROW and Easement Research app that your organization can configure with your branding and use to find record, right-of-way, and easement details with internal stakeholders.
Update research app
- Verify that you are signed in to your ArcGIS organization and browse to the ROW and Easement Research app.
- From the item page, click Edit.
- Hover over the Header and click Edit Header.
- Click the image in the Header, then click Select an image.
- Click Upload, select your organization's logo, and click Open.
- At the top of the page, click Save.
- Click Publish.