The following updates have been made to ArcGIS Urban.
General
The following new features and general improvements are available in Urban:
- Use the new viewshed tool to analyze the visible and invisible areas from a given observer point.
- Use improved editing constraints to do the following:
- Edit the vertices of existing polygon geometries, such as buildings or study areas, by inputting exact coordinate values.
- Move the edges of a building space by inputting an offset value.
- Place new and existing point geometries, such as trees or street furniture in the project editor, at specific locations by inputting exact coordinate values.
- Urban can now show media layers loaded from web scenes.
- Experience improved performance when navigating the 3D map view.
Data manager, plan configuration, and project configuration
The following new features and improvements are available in the data manager only:
- Import projects from a point feature layer.
- There are no more limitations around viewing and joining data when importing more than 1,000 features (for example, projects, zoning types, and so on).
The following new features and improvements are available in the data manager as well as the plan configuration:
- Experience improved validation feedback when importing data that includes JSON objects.
The following new features and improvements are available in the plan as well as in the project configuration:
- You can now configure JPG and PNG files as thumbnails. Until now, Urban only supported JPEG.
Plan editing
The following new features and improvements were added to the plan editing experience:
- There is a new user experience for metrics. It is referred to as the new metrics. The new user experience for metrics coexists with the existing user experience for this release . The existing user experience is now referred to as the old metrics. See Configure the dashboard to learn more. The new metrics user experience includes the following:
- Convert the old metrics to new metrics.
- Use the new metrics graph to configure metrics, including undo and redo capability and a search bar.
- Use the new operators to calculate metrics, including subtraction and division.
- Explore additional built-in metrics. Apart from the net space area, you can now also base the metric calculation on additional built-in metrics for spaces and surfaces, buildings, and parcels.
- Use the new resolution capability to configure whether to calculate the metric per space or surface, building, parcel, or study area.
- Use the new aggregation capability to configure whether and how to aggregate the metric to specific levels of resolutions.
- The user experience for manually adding and editing existing metric value pins is improved.
- The performance of the suitability tool is improved.
- A new tooltip in the development side panel explains the calculation of dwelling units.
Deprecated
The following functionality is deprecated and will be removed with a future release:
- The Counts toward GFA / FAR setting on surfaces will be removed in the future.
Enhancements and bug fixes
The following enhancements and bug fixes are introduced with this release:
- Press and hold the Shift key while zooming to change the field of view in the 3D map view.
- When importing zoning on urban model creation or from feature layer symbology in the data manager, there is improved validation feedback if the zoning feature layer contains zoning types without associated symbology.
- When using Urban in Arabic, numbers and dates are now formatted in compliance with the Arabic locale variant Arabic (World).
- A warning appears if the tiling scheme of an elevation layer doesn’t match the tiling scheme of the basemap configured in the urban model.
- If the urban model and the urban database view items have inconsistent sharing levels, a warning appears on the data manager’s Sharing tab.
- The way the metrics dashboard displays zero and null values is improved. Zero values are displayed as 0. Null values are now consistently displayed with a dash.
- The number for built dwelling units in the plan editor's development side panel now also includes underground spaces.
- Bug fix—This release fixes an issue in which the zoom buttons were not working in the Choose model location map when creating an urban model.
- Bug fix—When importing zoning and overlay types from feature layer symbology, in some cases, the symbology was imported incorrectly. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—Searching for a plan or project with a single quotation mark in its name did not work. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—Creating an urban model failed if the urban model’s name included certain Unicode characters. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—The menu button on the Urban start page was not working if you were not signed in. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—In the suitability tool, the criteria values in the pop-up window were displayed without decimal places. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—The way different types, such as zoning or building types, are sorted is now consistent throughout the app.
- Bug fix—This release prevents users from creating an urban model with an extent crossing the 180th meridian. The app now displays a descriptive error message.
- Bug fix—Dialog boxes stayed open instead of closing when using the browser’s back button. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—In the project editor, the 3D map view camera position did not persist when reloading the page. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—Assigning a category to a discussion comment couldn’t be undone if the comment had no category assigned before. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—The numbers for built and allowed dwelling units in the plan editor’s development side panel were rounded differently. Urban now always rounds down the numbers for built and allowed dwelling units to the nearest integer.
- Bug fix—The geometry of generated plausible buildings in global urban models is now more precise.
- Bug fix—There was a More details button on the No zone assigned entry in the plan editor’s zoning side panel by mistake. This release removes that button.