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Generate Aviation Cartographic Features (Aviation Tools)

Summary

Creates cartographic features based on the area of interest (AOI) in which they're located.

Features can also be created based on attribute queries that further refine the criteria for candidate features or manual inclusion or exclusion of features.

Usage

  • It is recommended that you set extraction queries for the chart's AOI before using this tool. Extraction queries limit cartographic feature creation based on a where clause. Extraction queries are applied when the tags of a saved extraction query match a subset of tags or all tags that are stored on the Area of Interest Features parameter value.

    Extraction queries and the inclusion/exclusion table will be populated by other ArcGIS Aviation tools.

    Learn more about extraction queries

    Note:

    The tool will not honor filtered or selected records in the Source and Target Cartographic Features parameter. Use the Extraction Query Table parameter, the Cartographic Exceptions Table parameter, or both to filter source features.

  • The extraction query and the inclusion/exclusion table are included in the ArcGIS Aviation charting workspace schema.

    Learn more about the Aeronautical Information System (AIS) schema

  • The following attributes are required for the AIS AOI used in the Area of Interest Features parameter:

    • MapID

    • Tag

    • UseGeographicExtent

    • Shape/geometry

  • Cartographic features will be generated with geometry matching their source features, and their Master_ID field will be populated with the GFID value of their source features.

  • Cartographic features will have their MapId_Txt field populated with the AIS_AOI.MapID value of the AOI they pertain to.

  • Cartographic feature placement can be edited for cartographic reasons without affecting the geometry of its source feature.

  • CartoModified_Code is an attribute in generated cartographic features. By default, a value of No is applied to this attribute for all cartographic features. If this value is set to Yes for a feature, the tool will not update that cartographic feature’s geometry to match the main feature if there are differences in geometry when the tool is re-run.

  • The AIS data model contains cartographic feature classes with the _C suffix for all main aviation feature classes. These can be extended with additional attribution to support charting requirements.

  • If the Source Features parameter value contains the MapId_Txt field, the value of that field will be used to restrict cartographic features that would be processed for the specified AOI MapId field value.

Parameters

Label Explanation Data type

Source and Target Cartographic Features

Associates source feature classes with the cartographic feature classes in which they will be generating features.

Value table columns:

  • Source Features—The source feature class that features will be copied from.

  • Target Features—The target feature class that features will be copied to.

Value Table

Area of Interest Features

A layer of AOI polygon features that will be used to spatially filter source features.

Feature Layer

Extraction Query Table

(Optional)

A table of where clauses that will be used to further filter source features based on an attribute query.

Table View

Cartographic Exceptions Table

(Optional)

A table identifying manually included or excluded source features.

Table View

Derived output

Label Explanation Data type

Updated Cartographic Feature Classes

The updated cartographic feature classes.

Feature Class

Environments

This tool does not use any geoprocessing environments.

Licensing information

  • Basic: No
  • Standard: Requires ArcGIS Aviation Charting
  • Advanced: Requires ArcGIS Aviation Charting