The following updates have been made to ArcGIS Urban.
General
The following new features and general improvements are available in Urban:
- Your layer visibility preferences that you configure in the Menu in the overview, plan, or project editor, are now stored in the browser cache and persisted per web session.
- The accessibility of Urban is further improved. You can now use keyboard navigation on additional UI elements.
- Use the new Zoom to default view button in the overview to zoom to the default view of an urban model. You can no longer click the urban model name in the header to zoom to the default view.
- The plan viewing experience for unlicensed and anonymous users now has two new tabs showing the zoning and space use legends.
- The calculation of polygon centroids is improved. If the centroid is outside the geometry, a reasonable point inside the geometry is used instead. This improves workflows such as determining the zoning type that applies to a concave parcel or importing metric values.
Data manager and plan/project configuration
The following new features and improvements are available in the data manager as well as in the plan and project configuration:
- You can now reorder zoning, land-use, and overlay types with drag-and-drop actions.
- You are notified when you configure an external layer that is in an unsupported coordinate system.
- The Living Atlas indicators page in the data manager only appears for urban models based on the USA Default template.
- If your urban model is not shared publicly, the Embed Urban Model section in the data manager is disabled instead of hidden.
- If your plan or project is not shared publicly, the Embed plan or Embed project section in the plan or project configuration is disabled instead of hidden.
Plan editing
The following new features and improvements were added to the plan editing experience:
- Explore the improved scenario to web scene creation experience. See Work with scenario web scenes for details. The old Export scenario to web scene functionality is still available as a legacy workflow. It will be removed with the June 2023 release.
- The suitability tool is improved further:
- Reopening the suitability tool does not reset previously calculated scores.
- You can switch between scenarios while in the suitability tool.
- Explore the parcels colored according to the calculated suitability scores outside of the suitability tool. A new layer is available for this in the layers list accessible from the Menu.
- See the ground floor highlighted as you use the building elevation tool.
- See the range of selected floors when you select multiple floors while editing spaces.
- Identify generated buildings with custom edits more easily in the Planned development on selected parcels section of the Development side panel.
- Experience a cleaner distinction between demolishing and redeveloping parcels:
- The development side panel no longer reports on the demolish state of a parcel. Instead, the demolished area is indicated in the Parcel information section.
- The ability to demolish parcels is removed from the Apply multiple building types tool. To demolish parcels, use the Demolish tool instead.
- The Total area and the Net area of a space-use type are now reported in a new section named New floor area in the Development side panel.
- See additional instructions on how to select overlapping features in the Select-by-feature advanced selection tool.
- The list of zoning, land-use, and overlay types in the Zoning and Land use side panels is now sorted by the order defined in the plan settings instead of alphabetically to make it consistent with other parts of the app.
- Urban remembers the merge settings in the Zoning add tool and on the Modify zoning dialog box as long as you stay in the plan editor.
- See clearer instructions when painting land-use, zoning, or overlay boundaries.
- LOD1 project buildings within a plan's study area are rendered with edges and a brighter shade of gray.
Deprecated and removed functionality
The following functionality is deprecated and will be removed with the June 2023 release of ArcGIS Urban:
- The ability to lock an individual scenario of a plan or project will be removed with the June 2023 release. There is a temporary UI announcing the removal of this capability. Use the Lock editing for non-owners capability on plans and projects to avoid unintended edits. See Share a project and Share a plan for details.
- The ability to lock a custom indicator will be removed with the June 2023 release. There is a temporary UI announcing the removal of this capability. See Share an urban model to learn how to restrict who can edit content stored in your urban model to avoid unintended edits on custom indicators.
The following functionality is removed from the app with this release:
- The refresh button is removed from the data manager as well as from the plan and project settings. Use the browser's refresh capability to refresh the page.
- The February 2022 release introduced an improved and more performant approach for retrieving design plans and projects that belong to a certain model. Since then, the old and new approaches were applied in parallel. With this release, the old approach is no longer supported. Design plans and projects that have never been opened by their owner since February 2022 will no longer be displayed in their associated urban model. Contact support or reach out through the ArcGIS Urban Esri Community if you have design plans and projects that are still needed but that were never opened since February 2022.
Enhancements and bug fixes
The following enhancements and bug fixes are introduced with this release:
- The Imagery visualization mode is now referred to as the Realistic visualization mode.
- For urban models without ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World indicators, the indicators type drop-down menu is removed from the list of indicators in the overview.
- For a simpler user interface, the prefix "Maximum" was removed from the zoning parameter names.
- Metric values are now called Existing metric values everywhere in the app if they refer to existing metric values.
- For plans and projects that you create in the Boston example city, you see a new banner in the plan and project settings explaining why public engagement is disabled.
- When you create an urban model that is located in the United States, the USA Default template is automatically suggested as a template.
- Various refinements and small bug fixes were made around undo/redo in the plan editor.
- Bug fix—The thumbnails on the Open recent models page were not clickable in dark mode. This is fixed in this release.
- Bug fix—The OpenStreetMap schematic existing buildings are no longer looking tiled at certain zoom levels.
- Bug fix—When a building was moved from one parcel to another in the plan editor, the moved building was attached to any other future building on the target parcel. This is fixed in this release.
- Bug fix—Dragging future buildings in the plan editor from one parcel to another did not update the development type on the target parcel. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—When editing spaces and surfaces in the plan editor, it was not possible to select an editing mode before selecting a space or surface. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—When editing spaces and surfaces in the plan editor, the advanced editing modes were also available if multiple spaces were selected. This is fixed for this release.
- Bug fix—The FAR value in the zoning legend of the plan editor is no longer displayed mathematically rounded to an integer.
Known limitations
The following are known limitations of this release:
- Zoning envelopes on very uneven terrain might not be correctly visualized.