Map clean Workflow

[DaveM]

All,

I am trying to come up with a good order to run the map clean operations. This is a new command for me. Does anyone have any suggestions to the order to run them, or things to watch out for?

Thanks,

Dave

[jmayo-EE]

If you want the parcels to reflect the exact area the linework should be based on the meets and bounds of the survey and mapclean should not be used since it changes the linework. If this is for a map that is not reporting the parcel area or exact location then mapclean is fine although I might prefer that the cleanup wasn't required after digitizing.

Another tip. The fillet command with a radius of zero will fix under and overshoots. Now I wouldn't want to do this on a few hundred parcels but a handful or two would be quick.

[DaveM]

When you say digitize are you refering to having a paper copy of a plot and manually entering the bearings and distances/ curves. While reading some of these help files I feel there is more.

I could you a Vocab lesson as to what autocads definition is for:

Digitize:

Topology:

[jmayo-EE]

Manually entering bearing and distance is calculating the lot. You should get the exact linework from the survey this way and this is where would would not be using mapclean. Digitizing is tracing over the paper copy w/o regard to the bearing/distance. If they were tracing, OSnaps should be used to prevent the need for cleaning.

[Neilw_05]

As Allen mentioned eariler, in his workflow he has to compile parcels from multiple sources into a contiguous parcel fabric. In that scenario you'll rarely find that the individual pieces fit together seamlessly.

In survey grade work you'll have to establish some criteria for resolving those discrepencies but in GIS you usually aren't constrained to survey tolerances and can get by with the Map Cleanup tool.

[noeortiz8009]

easiest approach is right click convert to polyline

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@dmartin wrote:

All,

I am trying to come up with a good order to run the map clean operations. This is a new command for me. Does anyone have any suggestions to the order to run them, or things to watch out for?

Thanks,

Dave

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[Joe-Bouza]

Neil
do you do them independently or stack them in the mapclean dialog box?

[Neilw_05]

Generally I get by with stacking them in a single run but there are occasions where you might want to run them in multiple steps.I can't recall a specific example off hand.

[Joe-Bouza]

I stack too. I ask because a guy at AU claimed the need for separate runs