Creating and Editing Parcels with ArcGIS Desktop

This course provides an introduction to storing and maintaining cadastral data in a geodatabase using COGO (Coordinate Geometry) tools in ArcGIS Desktop. You learn basic concepts of the geodatabase data model and a process for editing parcels. In course exercises, you practice displaying, symbolizing, and editing parcel data as well as entering subdivisions into existing parcels. The course also teaches how to create and modify tax map annotation.

This course is designed for tax mapping professionals and GIS technicians who want to maintain an accurate and up-to-date geographic representation of local cadastral data.

Those completing this course will be able to

• Understand the structure and capabilities of a geodatabase.
• Symbolize cadastral data.
• Create layer files.
• Set up the ArcMap editing environment.
• Create new features using COGO bearing and distance measurements.
• Adjust traverses to fit into an existing parcel framework.
• Use geodatabase topology to ensure data integrity.
• Use many of the ArcMap editing and drawing tools.
• Create and modify annotation including lot dimensions.
• Enter subdivisions.

• Introduction to the geodatabase: Data storage options; Geodatabase structures and permissions; Multiuser vs. personal geodatabase.
• Symbology and navigation: Unique values; Single symbol; Cartographic symbols; Finding features; Selecting features.
• The editing environment: Edit sessions; Snapping; Units; Task/Target; Selectable layers; Coincident features; Topology.
• The process of subdividing parcels: Entering lines; Adjusting lines; Creating polygons; Creating annotation.
• Entering closed traverses: From plats; From deeds.
• Tools overview: Copy features tool; Fillet tool; Extend tool; Trim tool; Proportion tool; Topology error inspector.
• Working with geodatabase annotation: Feature-linked annotation; Standard annotation.
• Practice entering a subdivision: COGO; Georeferencing plats; Heads-up drawing; Importing from CAD.

Students should have completed ArcGIS Desktop II: Tools and Functionality or Learning ArcGIS Desktop or have equivalent experience. They should also be familiar with tax mapping terminology and practices.

This course is designed to work with the following software:

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