The following updates have been made to ArcGIS Urban.
General
The following new features and general improvements are available in Urban:
- The user experience for discussions in plans and projects is improved. This introduces the concept of channels, which allow more fine-grained control of who can participate in a discussion. See Allow feedback and discussion for details.
- You can now copy the metrics configuration from one urban model to another and between plans. For details on how to copy metrics from an urban model to another urban model or to a plan, see Copy and paste metrics. For details on how to copy metrics from a plan to another plan or to an urban model, see Copy and paste metrics.
- This release introduces the new screenshot tool in the overview and plan editor. The new tool offers an improved user experience and allows you to take screenshots using previously configured extents.
- The Shadow cast analysis tool provides an improved experience for the Areas above threshold visualization. You can now see the shadow areas of discrete intervals as context for the above threshold result.
Project editing
The following new features and improvements were added to the project editing experience:
- Upload images as context to your project. The images are stored by scenario as media layers. See Work with images to learn more.
- Configure which scenario should be visible in the overview and the plan editor. In the overview, the project detail card indicates which scenario is displayed. See Configure the scenario visible in the overview for details.
Plan editing
The new Analysis mode was added to the plan editing experience, allowing you to review a plan's impact. It includes the Shadow cast, Line of sight, Viewshed, and Elevation profile tools. You can store and persist analysis configurations and results.
Known limitations
The following functionality are known limitations of this release:
- Plan and project scenario web scenes do not include image files you uploaded to the scenario. This will be added in a future release.
- The undo and redo capability in discussion posts is not working as expected for replies that are not expanded in the Discussion side panel.
- The elevation profile tool in both the plan editor and the project editor always displays the Ground and Scene elevation profile chart types in the side panel. Changes to which chart type should be displayed are not persisted. This will be added in a future release.
Deprecated and removed functionality
The following functionality is deprecated and will be removed with a future release:
- The Counts towards GFA / FAR setting on surfaces is deprecated and will be removed with the next release of Urban.
The following functionality is removed with this release:
- Public feedback has been removed. Use public channels instead. See Allow feedback and discussion for details.
Enhancements and bug fixes
The following enhancements and bug fixes are introduced with this release:
- This release introduces various performance improvements:
- Experience faster parcel import in the data manager as well as in the plan configuration.
- In the overview, plans and projects are loaded faster.
- The plan editor opens plans with many zoning, land-use boundaries, and parcels faster.
- For unauthenticated users, Urban uses the default units configured on the ArcGIS Online organization with which the urban model is associated.
- A descriptive error message is displayed if a user tries to create a group with an already-existing name.
- Bug fix—Masking existing buildings in the plan and project editors didn’t work if they were served from a group layer. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—This release fixes an issue on number input fields where, for locales using a comma as decimal separator, the separator was removed after the field value was edited.
- Bug fix—When a user inserted an invalid character into a number input field, it appeared in that field and was not removed automatically. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—Editing the metrics graph in two different browser tabs at the same time could lead to a state that caused the plan editor to crash. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—Opening the shadow cast analysis tool in the project editor did not disable the direct shadows. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—This release fixes an issue in the project editor where, for some locales, assets appeared in the wrong tab after changing between tabs in the asset picker.
- Bug fix—ArcGIS Hub community accounts couldn't access the internal discussions feature in projects. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—ArcGIS Hub community accounts couldn't edit the dashboard and metric values even if they had editing privileges in a project. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—ArcGIS Hub community accounts couldn't create new projects if the urban model was not public but only shared with them through a group. This is fixed.