ArcGIS Urban in ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 is equivalent to the Urban March 2025 release with ArcGIS Online.
New features
Project editing
This release introduces a new project editing experience. It includes the following new features and improvements to existing functionality:
- In the side panel, you can do the following with the various modes:
- Configure and edit project details, including status, thumbnail, description, and the study area in Info mode.
- Create and edit volumes and surfaces, place and modify assets, demolish existing buildings, and measure distances and areas in Development mode.
- The context toolbar options for selected items provide an improved editing experience for volumes, surfaces, and assets such as trees, vehicles, and furniture.
- Review the impact of the project in Analysis mode, where a list of analyses can be stored and persisted.
- The Analysis mode includes the Shadow cast, Line of sight, Viewshed, and Elevation profile tools.
- Configure the coordinates and exact height of observer points for line of sight and viewshed analysis.
- On the side toolbar, you can do the following:
- Configure and review metrics in the Dashboard panel.
- Turn layers on and off in the Layers panel, and switch the visualization mode.
- Set the date, time of day, and shadows in the Daylight panel.
- Add and edit viewpoints in the Viewpoints panel.
- Use navigation, take screenshots, and zoom to a study area on the 3D Navigation toolbar.
- The screenshot tool comes with a new UI and allows you to use previously configured extents.
- The new project editor has a new header as follows:
- It includes a Help menu with links to documentation, release notes, and so on.
- Use the new scenario switcher on a drop-down menu to access scenarios and to configure scenario settings.
- The project name drop-down menu in the header allows you to create a web scene and duplicate, share, and delete the project.
- For projects in the urban model, you can click Enable editing for the project if you are the owner of the model.
- Nearby future buildings from other projects are displayed in the project editor.
Plan editing
The following features and improvements were added to the plan editing experience:
- Using the Image Upload tool in Details mode, you can upload images as context to a plan. Images are stored by scenario as media layers.
- To georeference the image in the scene, you can resize and rotate images using control points.
- You can replace images while control points are being persisted.
- You can copy images between scenarios.
- If there are multiple images in one scenario, you can change the order of the images displayed.
Removed functionality
The following functionality has been removed at this release:
- The old project editor has been removed. All previous functionality has been integrated in the new project editor. Urban now opens all existing projects in the new project editor experience. See Configure a project for details.
- You can't configure project context layers in the new project editor. You can still configure scenario context layers. See Configure scenario context for details.
Known limitations
The sections below list known limitations of this release.
Urban in ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0
The following are known limitations specific to Urban in ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0:
- In some cases, you cannot start Urban after upgrading from a previous ArcGIS Enterprise version. See the Upgrade from a previous version section in the frequently asked questions for a workaround.
- After creating a copy of an urban model, there is no option to download a report of the copy process.
- You cannot upload 3D models to projects.
- There is no example city.
- ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World data is not included when you create an urban model using the USA Default template.
- The feedback and discussion features are not available for plans and projects.
General known limitations
The following are general known limitations of Urban:
- When editing the study area of a project in the new project editor, the parcels from the urban model cannot be displayed.
- The study area cannot be turned off in the new project editor from the layers panel.
- The Select basemap dialog box only displays basemaps if you configured a basemap gallery in your organization. See the Configure map topic in the ArcGIS Enterprise documentation to learn more about configuring the basemap gallery.
- The number of vertices of the study area geometry can impact the performance when loading the plan and when editing parcels. Consider simplifying the study area geometry before importing it. See the Simplify Polygon tool documentation to learn how you can do this in ArcGIS Pro.
- The number of parcels per scenario can impact the performance when coloring the parcels according to the calculated suitability score. Consider creating a scenario web scene that includes the suitability scores and configure it as scenario context to reduce the loading time for visualizing suitability scores in the plan editor. See Work with scenario web scenes to learn how to export suitability scores and Configure scenario context to learn how to add a scenario context.
- You cannot copy urban models, plans, and projects from a coordinate system with metric units to a coordinate system with U.S. Standard units and vice versa. This is due to a platform limitation for vertical coordinates. You will receive an error message when trying to copy to a coordinate system with a different unit.
- Basemaps that you published in a way that their spatial reference includes well-known text (WKT) instead of a well-known ID (WKID) cannot be used to create or copy urban models.
- Feature services that you published in a way that their spatial reference includes WKT instead of a WKID cannot be used to import data to Urban.
- In the Copy parcels tool, you can choose how to handle parcel overlaps. If parcels need to be clipped, multipart features might be created. Applying building types, showing envelopes, and editing parcel edges are not fully supported on those parcels. Use the Split tool to split multipart parcels after copying.