Imagine you are sailing down a wide river and observing the changing landscape on either side. Fields give way to forests, tributaries and streams flow into the river, bridges cross over, and you know that one side of the river is managed by a government agency, while the other is subdivided into land ownership parcels of different sizes. The connectedness, adjacency, and proximity between these features can be summed up in one word: topology.Geodatabase topology allows you to define the spatial relationships you want protected in your GIS data. By doing so, no matter how much you edit, twist, bend, or squash your feature data, things stay connected, adjacent, or within the areas they belong. This course is designed to get you started with geodatabase topology.After completing this course, you will be able to:Use visual inspection and topology to identify and correct errors.Build a geodatabase topology.Choose and apply topology rules.

Overview of topology editing workflow in ArcMap.

Countywide Surface Topology

Download In State Plane Projection Here. ** The Street Centerline feature class now follows the NG911/State of Illinois data specifications including a StreetNameAlias table. The download hyperlink above also contains a full network topology for use with the Esri Network Analyst extension ** These street centerlines were developed for a myriad of uses including E-911, as a cartographic base, and for use in spatial analysis. This coverage should include all public and selected private roads within Lake County, Illinois. Roads are initially entered using recorded documents and then later adjusted using current aerial photography. This dataset should satisfy National Map Accuracy Standards for a 1:1200 product. These centerlines have been provided to the United States Census Bureau and were used to conflate the TIGER road features for Lake County. The Census Bureau evaluated these centerlines and, based on field survey of 109 intersections, determined that there is a 95% confidence level that the coordinate positions in the centerline dataset fall within 1.9 meters of their true ground position. The fields PRE_DIR, ST_NAME, ST_TYPE and SUF_DIR are formatted according to United States Postal Service standards. Update Frequency: This dataset is updated on a weekly basis.

This Administration feature is the single most valuable feature maintained by the GIS Services staff. It combines the maintenance of many individual polygon features in one main overall feature.It is part of a ArcGIS Topology class maintained with our parcel and zoning features in the Editing Feature Data Set.We use the shared editing capabilities of this topology class to leverage our maintenance procedures as simply as possible. Weekly, the individual features maintained with our Administration feature are created with ArcGIS dissolve function. These include Jurisdiction boundaries, Public Safety Response areas, Voting Precincts, Schools Attendance Zones, Inspections, Library Service Zones, and more.Generally, maintenance of this feature is controlled thru shared editing performed with our parcel/zoning edits with the use of the Topology features in ArcGIS. Changes to features maintained in the Administration feature are caused by a number of issues. Parcel edits, new Public Safety Stations, changes in Voting Precincts, Police Reporting districts and other changes occur often. Most changes can be facilitated by selecting one or more “Administrative” polygons and changing the appropriate attribute value. Use of the “Cut Polygon” task may be necessary in those cases where part of a polygon must be changed from a district to another. The appropriate attribute can be changed in the affected area as necessary.

BY USING THIS WEBSITE OR THE CONTENT THEREIN, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF USE. A spatial representation of a subset of parcel features that contain special use characteristics. This polygon feature class is maintained in a geodatabase using topology with the TaxParcel feature class. The key attribute is AccessType, which describes the type of access (Prescriptive, Dedicated, or Private) on the feature.

This dataset is very large and detailed. As a result, there is no option to download a single dataset of the entire City as a shapefile (.shp) since it would exceed the 2 GB file size limit. If you intend to use this data in a CAD program, you should download the zone(s) in shapefile format and attach the data to your project.

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Background

The soil map of Israel was first published by Rabinovitch et al. in 1969. It was a massive work that took place 5 years. The map was published in a printed format at a 1:250,000 scale. Until now, a digital version of this map was not available. Accordingly, we carefully digitized the soil map of Rabinovitch and provided the map herein.

Materials and Methods

This dataset contains georeferenced raster layers of the soil map (1:250,00) of Israel published by Ravikovitch (1969). The georectification was done using control points located on the borders of Israel. With this information, it was possible to create polygons over the georeferenced raster layers. This was done using the editing tool of ArcGIS 10.3. For each polygon we assigned the same classification provided by Ravikovitch (1969). Once all the polygons were created, topological corrections were applied using the method of Longley et al., (2015) in order to rectify possible inaccuracies in the digitation. To this end, we used the topology tool of ArcGIS 10.3 applying two rules:

• polygons must not have gaps
• polygons must not overlap.

This publication contains:

• the northern and the southern sections of the Israel map of soils after the georectification in geotiff format
• the final product of the cartographic edition of the Israel map of soils in shapefile format
• a PDF map showing the shapefile layer over the original map after georectification

Please, if you are going to make use of this map, cite this publication properly.

References

• Longley, P. A., Goodchild, M. F., Maguire, D. J., & Rhind, D. W. (2015). Geographic information science and systems. John Wiley & Sons.
• Ravikovitch, S. (1969) Manual and Map of Soils of Israel; The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University: Jerusalem, Israel.

State House Districts: The Virginia House of Delegates Districts is one of two parts in the Virginia General Assembly, the other being the Senate of Virginia. It has 100 members elected for terms of two years; unlike most states, these elections take place during odd-numbered years. State House districts are maintained within the Administration Feature and is dissolved out weekly.Administration is a polygon feature consisting of the smallest statistical areas bounded by visible features such as roads, streams, railroad tracks, and mountain ridges, as well as by nonvisible boundaries such as jurisdictional limits, school district, public safety boundaries, voting precincts, and census blocks. This methodology allows for single stream editing to move coincidental boundaries across many aggregate datasets simultaneously. Administration is maintained though an ArcGIS topology class in conjunction with County Parcels and Zoning. The topology prevents self-intersection and gaps, while ensuring complete coverage amongst the participating features.

The MassGIS Protected and Recreational OpenSpace data comprise a set of related data layers that represent parklands, forests, golf courses, playgrounds, wildlife sanctuaries, conservation lands, water supply areas, cemeteries, school ball fields, and other open land that may be classified as protected and/or recreational in use. Not all lands in this layer are protected in perpetuity, though nearly all have at least some level of protection. The layer includes lands owned by the state, cities and towns, federal agencies, and private and non-profit entities. The following types of land are included in this polygon datalayer: - conservation land - habitat protection with minimal recreation, such as walking trails - recreation land - outdoor facilities such as town parks, commons, playing fields, school fields, golf courses, bike paths, scout camps, and fish and game clubs. These may be privately or publicly owned facilities. - town forests - parkways - green buffers along roads, if they are a recognized conservation resource - agricultural land - land protected under an Agricultural Preservation Restriction (APR) and administered by the state Department of Agricultural Resources (DAR, formerly the Dept. of Food and Agriculture (DFA)) - aquifer protection land - not zoning overlay districts - watershed protection land - not zoning overlay districts - cemeteries - if a recognized conservation or recreation resource - forest land -- if designated as a Forest Legacy Area The OpenSpace layer includes two feature classes: * OPENSPACE_POLY - polygons of recreational and conservation lands as described above * OPENSPACE_ARC - attributed lines that represent boundaries of the polygons These feature classes are stored in a feature dataset named OPENSPACE that includes ArcGIS geodatabase topology.

Planning Area Boundaries are design to facilitate long range planning at the community level. Roanoke County’s community planning areas were established in the mid-1980s as part of the 1985 Comprehensive Plan. Planning area boundaries were based upon a combination of tax map limits, elementary school districts, and community characteristics. Most of the names for the planning areas are loosely based on community elementary schools and fire and rescue stations. The planning area boundaries were updated in 2011 to correspond with recent planning area studies. Planning Area Boundaries are maintained within the Administration Feature and is dissolved out weekly.Administration is a polygon feature consisting of the smallest statistical areas bounded by visible features such as roads, streams, railroad tracks, and mountain ridges, as well as by nonvisible boundaries such as jurisdictional limits, school district, public safety boundaries, voting precincts, and census blocks. This methodology allows for single stream editing to move coincidental boundaries across many aggregate datasets simultaneously. Administration is maintained though an ArcGIS topology class in conjunction with County Parcels and Zoning. The topology prevents self-intersection and gaps, while ensuring complete coverage amongst the participating features.

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles. The development of map units (map classes) and construction of a map legend is an iterative process that integrates the ecological vegetation classification units (plant associations, groups, etc.) described above with their spatial distribution as determined by the quality of the remote sensing imagery and on-the-ground reconnaissance work. Following NPS guidelines, the desired target is the development of map units that correspond to the plant-association level of the national classification, but this is contingent on being able to discern differences in the available imagery at that level using various remote techniques. Once a final supervised classification was completed, the resulting 45 classes were recoded into one of the 23 map units that best represented them. The image polygons developed from the object-oriented classification were imported as a feature dataset polygon layer in ESRI ArcGIS (v. 9.3), the file quality controlled, and topology built. The image polygons were then overlaid onto the recoded classification and the majority map unit was assigned as that polygon’s map unit.

Urban Tree Canopy Assessment. This was created using the Urban Tree Canopy Syracuse 2010 (All Layers) file HERE.The data for this map was created using LIDAR and other spatial analysis tools to identify and measure tree canopy in the landscape. This was a collaboration between the US Forest Service Northern Research Station (USFS), the University of Vermont Spatial Laboratory, and SUNY ESF. Because the full map is too large to be viewed in ArcGIS Online, this has been reduced to a vector tile layer to allow it to be viewed online. To download and view the shapefiles and all of the layers, you can download the data HERE and view this in either ArcGIS Pro or QGIS.Data DictionaryDescription source  USDA Forest ServiceList of values  Value 1 Description Tree CanopyValue 2 Description Grass/ShrubValue 3 Description Bare SoilValue 4 Description WaterValue 5 Description BuildingsValue 6 Description Roads/RailroadsValue 7 Description Other PavedField Class Alias Class Data type String Width 20Geometric objects  Feature class name landcover_2010_syracusecity Object type  complex Object count 7ArcGIS Feature Class Properties Feature class name landcover_2010_syracusecity Feature type  Simple Geometry type Polygon Has topology FALSE Feature count 7 Spatial index TRUE Linear referencing  FALSEDistributionAvailable format  Name ShapefileTransfer options  Transfer size 163.805Description Downloadable DataFieldsDetails for object landcover_2010_syracusecityType Feature Class Row count  7 Definition  UTCField FIDAlias FID Data type OID Width  4 Precision 0 Scale 0Field descriptionInternal feature number.Description source ESRIDescription of valueSequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.Field ShapeAlias Shape Data type Geometry Width 0 Precision 0 Scale 0Field description Feature geometry.Description source  ESRIDescription of values Coordinates defining the features.Field CodeAlias Code Data type Number Width 4Overview Description  Metadata DetailsMetadata language  English Metadata character set utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer FormatScope of the data described by the metadata  dataset Scope name  datasetLast update 2011-06-02ArcGIS metadata properties Metadata format ArcGIS 1.0 Metadata style North American Profile of ISO19115 2003Created in ArcGIS for the item 2011-06-02 16:48:35 Last modified in ArcGIS for the item 2011-06-02 16:44:43Automatic updates Have been performed Yes Last update 2011-06-02 16:44:43Item location history  Item copied or moved 2011-06-02 16:48:35 From T:\TestSites\NY\Syracuse\Temp\landcover_2010_syracusecity To \T7500\F$\Export\LandCover_2010_SyracuseCity\landcover_2010_syracusecity

Satellite communities loosely based off of the USGS Named Places point feature. They are not an official administrative boundary, such as Magistraterial Districts, Voting Precincts, or Zip Code boundaries, but rather a grouping of like cultural and geographic specificity. Hamlets are maintained within the Administration Feature and is dissolved out weekly.Administration is a polygon feature consisting of the smallest statistical areas bounded by visible features such as roads, streams, railroad tracks, and mountain ridges, as well as by nonvisible boundaries such as jurisdictional limits, school district, public safety boundaries, voting precincts, and census blocks. This methodology allows for single stream editing to move coincidental boundaries across many aggregate datasets simultaneously. Administration is maintained though an ArcGIS topology class in conjunction with County Parcels and Zoning. The topology prevents self-intersection and gaps, while ensuring complete coverage amongst the participating features.

Magisterial Districts are administrative county divisions by which the County Board of Supervisors are elected.Magisterial Districts are maintained within the Administration Feature and is dissolved out weekly. Administration is a polygon feature consisting of the smallest statistical areas bounded by visible features such as roads, streams, railroad tracks, and mountain ridges, as well as by nonvisible boundaries such as jurisdictional limits, school district, public safety boundaries, voting precincts, and census blocks. This methodology allows for single stream editing to move coincidental boundaries across many aggregate datasets simultaneously. Administration is maintained though an ArcGIS topology class in conjunction with County Parcels and Zoning. The topology prevents self-intersection and gaps, while ensuring complete coverage amongst the participating features.

The geographic data are built from the Technical Information Management System (TIMS). TIMS consists of two separate databases: an attribute database and a spatial database. The attribute information for offshore activities is stored in the TIMS database. The spatial database is a combination of the ARC/INFO and FINDER databases and contains all the coordinates and topology information for geographic features. The attribute and spatial databases are interconnected through the use of common data elements in both databases, thereby creating the spatial datasets. The data in the mapping files are made up of straight-line segments. If an arc existed in the original data, it has been replaced with a series of straight lines that approximate the arc. The Gulf of America OCS Region stores all its mapping data in longitude and latitude format. All coordinates are in NAD 27. Data can be obtained in three types of digital formats: INTERACTIVE MAP: The ArcGIS web maps are an interactive display of geographic information, containing a basemap, a set of data layers (many of which include interactive pop-up windows with information about the data), an extent, navigation tools to pan and zoom, and additional tools for geospatial analysis. SHP: A Shapefile is a digital vector (non-topological) storage format for storing geometric location and associated attribute information. Shapefiles can support point, line, and area features with attributes held in a dBASE format file. GEODATABASE: An ArcGIS geodatabase is a collection of geographic datasets of various types held in a common file system folder, a Microsoft Access database, or a multiuser relational DBMS (such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Informix, or IBM DB2). The geodatabase is the native data structure for ArcGIS and is the primary data format used for editing and data management.

School Districts is a polygon feature used to denote the district boundaries of Elementary, Middle and High Schools in the County of Roanoke.School Districts are maintained within the Administration Feature and is dissolved out weekly.Administration is a polygon feature consisting of the smallest statistical areas bounded by visible features such as roads, streams, railroad tracks, and mountain ridges, as well as by nonvisible boundaries such as jurisdictional limits, school district, public safety boundaries, voting precincts, and census blocks. This methodology allows for single stream editing to move coincidental boundaries across many aggregate datasets simultaneously. Administration is maintained though an ArcGIS topology class in conjunction with County Parcels and Zoning. The topology prevents self-intersection and gaps, while ensuring complete coverage amongst the participating features.

The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. Face refers to the areal (polygon) topological primitives that make up MTDB. A face is bounded by one or more edges; its boundary includes only the edges that separate it from other faces, not any interior edges contained within the area of the face. The Topological Faces Shapefile contains the attributes of each topological primitive face. Each face has a unique topological face identifier (TFID) value. Each face in the shapefile includes the key geographic area codes for almost all geographic areas for which the Census Bureau tabulates data for both the 2010 Census and Census 2000. The geometries of each of these geographic areas can then be built by dissolving the face geometries on the appropriate key geographic area codes in the Topological Faces Shapefile.

Source: 1 foot contours were generated for each production block from the final bare earth DEMs using ArcGIS software. Using ArcGIS software, the contours were validated for correct topology, including must not intersect, must not self intersect, and must not have dangles. Contours are then manually reviewed with the 3D breaklines to ensure complete coverage, correct coding, data integrity and that contours behave correctly around water bodies, water crossings, and elevated features such as overpasses. The contours are then clipped to individual tiles as creating one dataset for the entire project renders the feature class un-usable. Enclosed contours completely within building footprints were removed from the final contour dataset.Coordinate System:The data was developed based on a horizontal datum/projection of NAD83 (2011), State Plane Connecticut, U.S. Survey Feet and vertical datum of NAVD88 (GEOID18)Use Constraints:There are no formal use restrictions. However, users should be aware the conditions may have changed since the data was originally collected, and some areas may no longer accurately reflect current surface features. This data should not be used for critical decision-making without a full understanding of their limitations.