The updates below have been made in ArcGIS Urban.
General
Learn more how you can explore the capabilities of ArcGIS Urban based on four different example cities and which other features were shipped with this release.
Example cities
Starting with the ArcGIS Urban December 2019 release, you can choose from four example cities (Melbourne, Boston, Uppsala, and Hardeeville) available at start up. The four cities differ in geographical location, size, and types of challenges regarding urban development. Selecting an example city sets up a new urban model in your ArcGIS Online content and copies the respective example data, which you can then edit.
Street view
- You can compare your Urban scene to street view imagery provided by Mapillary.
- In the street view mode, you can use the split screen to compare the future of your city with what you can see today from a pedestrian perspective.
- The street view mode is available in the overview and in the Plan editor.
Trees
- Add your existing trees and see them masked out by future developments.
- The existing trees are displayed in the overview and in the Plan editor as part of your 3D base layers.
- The trees are masked out the same way as the existing buildings.
- You can add your existing trees layer in the data manager as a scene layer with point geometries.
- You must add the symbology of your trees before publishing the scene layer.
Plan-specific space use types
Add and configure plan-specific space use types and apply to your proposed building types directly in the Plan editor.
Overview improvements
The ArcGIS Urban December 2019 release introduces more options to configure what you show in the Urban overview.
Design visualization of plans
- A new publishing workflow allows you to not only display future buildings in the overview but any layer from the Plan editor. You can display zoning, overlays, and parcels together with the future buildings and zoning envelopes that stakeholders and citizens can view.
- Select the layers you want to visualize in the overview and how they appear (for example, if future buildings should be colored).
- The new layers to choose from are Future Buildings, Zoning Envelopes, Zoning, Overlays and Parcels, and Study Area.
Indicators layer options
- You now have more control over which layers are shown together with your indicator data.
- Select the layers you want to visualize together with your indicator and how they appear (for example, if existing buildings should be transparent).
- The new layers to choose from are Existing Buildings, Future Buildings, Existing Trees, Plans, and Projects.
Export
A series of new functionalities allows you to export content from Urban and use in other tools.
Capacity values to Excel
- Export the capacity values from your Urban plan to Excel for additional analysis.
- Export all scenarios at the same time and get an overview of all capacity indicators for comparison.
- Exported capacity indicators include population, households, and jobs.
- Find a breakdown of space use types and their respective gross floor area as well as zoning types and the sum of the assigned parcel areas for each scenario.
Scenarios to web scene and web map
- Export scenarios as web scenes (3D) and web maps (2D) to include in Story Maps or use alone.
- Using the new publishing workflow, you can select the exported layers and publish the scenarios to web scenes and web maps.
- Additionally, the publishing step creates a separate feature layer with your scenario that you can use in other design tools and software such as ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud.
- In Urban, you can find the exported web scene under Design Visualization of each scenario or in your ArcGIS Online content in the folder named after your plan.
Screen shots
- Export high-resolution screen shots (PNG) to use in your presentations and documents.
- The screen shots exclude all UI elements and give you a clean image of your 3D scene.
Plan editor UI enhancements
The Plan editor UI has significantly improved to provide you with a better and clearer workflow.
Building types
- The UI is more visually compelling and understandable for configuring your building types.
- See a preview of your building in the dialog box with parts that scale according to the number of floors assigned to them.
- See how the tower and podium assignment affects your building type.
Warning labels switch
- Turn off the warning labels in the Plan editor.
- This is useful if you are presenting your scenario or want to design without limiting your creativity regarding zoning restrictions.
Side panels
- A more understandable side panel separates the legend and inspector elements from capacity indicators.
- Instead of scrolling in the Dashboard section, you can now use the various tabs to see space use type and zoning type breakdowns as legends.
Zoning envelopes default visibility
Zoning envelopes are now visible per default when using the Plan editor.
Data manager
The data manager is now out of beta and is fully functional.
Import zoning types from a feature layer
- Create your list of zoning types based on the layer symbology of a feature layer.
- You can import zoning types from a feature layer of your zones. This extracts a list of the different unique zones including name, description, and color.
Validation
- The data manager shows better and more understandable validation when importing external data.
- The validation gives more information regarding which features are invalid.
Explanations
- More explanations have been added to make it easier to understand how to load your data.
- The data manger contains a description of each table and layer of the data model.
Breaking changes
- The conversion error for DwellingUnitsPerAreaMax fields (in Zoning Types, Overlays, Parcels) and MultipleBuildingDensity (in Building Types) when entering values in imperial units has been fixed.
- Wrong mapping of the AllowedSpaceUseTypes field in Zoning Types when publishing or unpublishing a plan (already published or unpublished plans have wrong mappings) has been fixed.
Deprecation
- Future Buildings are not shown in the overview for plans (use new publishing workflow described above).
- Future Buildings in the Plan editor are not saved in the BuildingsLOD1 layer.
- Zoning Envelopes in the Plan editor are not saved in the ZoningEnvelopes layer.
- Support for Hindi has been removed (as all other ArcGIS Online apps).
Enhancements and bug fixes
- Improved types filter functionality in the Plan editor—for example, filter by what is allowed on the parcel or by space use types.
- Renamed Custom ID to Join ID in the data manager to make joining of layers and tables more understandable.
- Added possibility to open the Plan editor from a URL directly.
- Added decluttering for warning labels.
- Removed the New Slice button from slice tool and directly show the functionality.
- Added zoning envelopes for parcels without an assigned zone.
- Added a clickable URL to the portal item in the picker.
- Improved the portal item picker for long names of items.
- Removed error message when an external source (for example, a web scene or a layer) is not available.
- Changed the vertical alignment of Future Buildings in the Plan editor to be aligned to the lowest point of the ground floor.
- Fixed an issue in which the scenario drop-down menu was not scrolling.
- Fixed an issue in which the Real_Shape_Area field was not calculated on importing Future Buildings through the data manager.
- Fixed an issue in which the suitability tool did not reset the parcels renderer.
- Fixed an issue in the data manager field matcher in which certain numeric fields did not appear in the drop-down menu.
- Fixed the loading of web scene layers, including the styling of building scene layers as configured in Scene Viewer.
- Fixed an issue in which tiers and setbacks were not imported correctly from a spreadsheet.
- Fixed the CGA rule to validate building types regarding dwelling unit density.
- Fixed the CGA rule to limit podiums by FAR as well.
- Fixed the CGA rule to allow buildings with only substructures.
- Fixed the dialog box validation for StatusTypes.
- Fixed an issue in which some units were not displaying on the right side for right-to-left.