What is Production Mapping? (Production Mapping)
Esri Production Mapping
streamlines your GIS data and map production by providing tools that
facilitate data creation, maintenance, and validation, as well as tools
for producing high-quality cartographic products.
Production Mapping
provides tools for managing your production from beginning to end. Each
organization has workflows that are unique to the type of data being
collected and the type of product being delivered. These workflows can
be generalized into a basic production workflow that consists of steps
to create your geodatabase and capture or load an initial set of data,
perform edits to the data, ensure the data is valid and accurate, and
produce digital or hard-copy output. Production Mapping is designed to streamline each of these steps while remaining flexible to adapt to your business rules and workflows.
The Esri Mapping and Charting solutions
include industry-specific, standards-based templates, rules, and tools.
Through configuration, the tools and processes can be adapted to meet
maturing business needs, and therefore an API is not included for
customization.
The geodatabase
Central to any production workflow is the geodatabase. How you choose
to design your geodatabase determines what data needs to be captured and
edited, what logical rules exist for validating the data, and the types
of output that can be created.
When designing a geodatabase, certain types of validation are built in
such as the ability to limit the valid attribute values for a field by
using a domain. You can also model the geometric relationships of
features through topologies or networks. Production Mapping supports these forms of validation and allows you to define additional business rules using ArcGIS Data Reviewer for Desktop
checks stored in a batch job. The batch jobs can be run when you update
the attributes of a feature or template, like domains, or as a
postprocess like validating the topology.
The product library in Production Mapping provides a framework
for managing business rules, data, and map documents in a secure,
centralized location. By leveraging the rules stored in the product
library, data editing tools are tailored to ensure that features conform
to your data collection standards. During cartographic production,
the product library can act as a document management system for your
map documents and data, allowing you to check files in and out and
restore historical versions. The cartographic tools in Production Mapping can also be used to ensure consistent and repeatable
symbology as well as provide a number of dynamic surround
elements.
Capture
The purpose of data capture is to consume existing data or create new
data in your geodatabase. Data can be captured many different ways such
as extracting new data from imagery, gathering information in the field
with a mobile device, or converting existing data into the geodatabase.
Feature Manager allows you to quickly and easily create new features by
using feature templates and construction tools within a centralized
editing environment that leverages your enhanced validation rules and
provides a new type of feature template called the composite template. Production Mapping
also provides the data load automation tools, which allow you to define
the mapping between source data, such as shapefiles or coverages, and
your geodatabase ahead of time to ensure consistency when converting
large amounts of data.
Edit
The editing stage of the production workflow involves adjusting
existing features and adding new features to ensure that your data is
up-to-date and accurate. This can involve updating data to match a new
source or modifying attributes of data that was collected for a
different purpose.
When editing data within Production Mapping,
feature attribution is managed through the Feature Manager, which
allows you to update fields while ensuring the attributes are valid
according to your validation rules as well as batch update attributes
and create new features. Production Mapping
also provides a number of editing tools for batch geometry updates as
well as tools for specific types of data or industries including tools
for linear referencing, utilities, contour lines, and z-enabled data.
Review
Data
review is important to ensure that the data being created is accurate
and fit for its intended purpose before the data is delivered or used
for making a map product. The data review or quality control stage of
the production workflow often involves three phases: finding issues with
the data, whether through manual or automated methods; fixing issues or
marking them as exceptions; and verifying that the issue is resolved.
The Data Reviewer component of Production Mapping
provides the ability to track records of all issues you find in the
Reviewer table, which maintains the status of the record as well as a
link between the record and the feature with the issue. Data Reviewer
offers the ability to automate data validation through configurable
checks that can be run when you choose, scheduled through a Windows
service to run at specified times, or run through Python scripts.
Automated checks may not be able to find all problems with the data,
such as missing features. Data Reviewer
also has a number of tools to help with manual or visual quality
control including tools to flag missing features and the ability to
create a sample set of data for in-depth validation.
Note:
Data Reviewer is available with Production Mapping or as a stand-alone extension.
Create output
Typically, the final stage of a production workflow is to create the
output that will be delivered; however, the workflow may repeat if
making a delivery contingent on approval or creating a product that
requires regular updates. There are many types of output that may be
produced: data exported to a certain format, hard-copy maps, or data
that will be served over the Web.
When producing hard-copy products,
there is wide range of types of maps or charts that you may need to
produce, from one-off maps to map books to highly detailed charts
that require version tracking. Production Mapping
provides support for hard-copy map production through the product
library by providing check-in and checkout capabilities for map
documents as well as the
ability to track history and roll back to previous
versions.
Data visualization and symbology is important when producing a hard-copy product or serving data over the Web. Production Mapping
provides the views and visual specification tools for consistent,
repeatable, rule-based symbology, where you define what symbol or
representation should be applied to features based on their attribute
combination. Production Mapping
also provides a number of custom surround elements, such as the graphic
table element, that allow you to create a table or legend that
automatically updates based on the data being displayed.
Workflow management
When managing production, it is important to be able to allocate
resources and track the status of the project. Being able to ensure that
work is being done consistently and that steps are not being skipped is
also essential. Production Mapping
allows you to tie all the components of data capture, editing,
validation, and cartography together in high-level workflows with ArcGIS Workflow Manager for Desktop and in detailed workflows with Task Assistant Manager.
Note:
Workflow Manager is available in the Production Mapping media kit and as its own stand-alone extension.
Workflow Manager
allows you to create a job (unit of work), assign or reassign the job
to a user, and track the overall status of the project. Each job
includes a predefined workflow that you build to represent your
processes. When assigned a job, you execute the steps in the workflow to
launch the appropriate tools, send e-mail notifications, or ask
questions to determine the path the job should take.
Task Assistant Manager
allows you to define workflows in ArcMap that guide your users through
various tasks. Task assistant workflows can be used to provide
step-by-step instructions for complex tasks, minimize confusion for new
users, or simply be used as a reference. Clicking a task in a workflow
can execute a tool in ArcMap or geoprocessing tools, set up your
environment by setting layer or snapping properties, or provide a
description of what needs to be done.
Production Mapping solutions
Esri provides three out-of-the-box solutions
for the defense mapping, nautical, and aeronautical industries that
are all built to utilize and expand on Production Mapping
functionality. Production Mapping content is also available on
the Esri Resource Centers for many of the user
communities.
Production Mapping can be used to build your own solutions by creating a product library to meet the standards of an industry or business.
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