Editing ENC features (Maritime Charting)
The following links give a general overview of the many Esri Production Mapping editing capabilities.
- Feature Manager
- Production Editing toolbar
- Production Editing Advanced toolbar
- Cutting, clipping, and splitting features
- Dissolving features
Each of these toolbars or individual tools assists you in creating, modifying, or removing S-57 data stored within the geodatabase. In addition to the Production Mapping editing capabilities, ArcGIS for Maritime: Charting also offers its own line of editing tools for the S-57 production environment.
Sounding tools
The sounding tools offered by Maritime Charting allow you to create new sounding groups, append to an existing sounding group, or select an existing sounding group. Each of these tools is found on the Nautical S-57 toolbar. If you want to create or append soundings, the selected sounding set must share the same S-57 attribute values for them to be grouped. Additionally, when new soundings are created, they will be grouped based on the Nautical Properties Group Soundings Type setting.
S-57 relationship features
The Relationship Manager is located on the Nautical toolbar. It creates S-57 relationship features, modifies S-57 relationship features, and removes S-57 relationships between features. In addition to batch creating parent/child relationships, the Relationship Manager tool also handles S-57 Collection features (C_ASSO and C_AGGR) and individual parent/child relationships as well.
Populating SCAMIN
The SCAMIN tool is located on the Nautical S-57 toolbar. It will autopopulate the SCAMIN attribute held on many of the feature classes stored within the ENC geodatabase. You may need to configure the SCAMIN file that is associated with the tool.
Applying changes to the production database (enterprise only)
This section applies only if you are working in an enterprise production environment. In an enterprise environment, you will be performing all your data edits on your NIS database. Once you have made your edits to the NIS database and have run the update instance process, you will then need to connect to your production database to synchronize the edits from the NIS to your product.
When connected to the CM version on your production database, the Apply Changes tool will apply the edits from the NIS to the connected version on the production database. During the Apply Changes process, a child version is created from the CM version that holds the updated data. This version is reconciled to the parent, in which case you may encounter conflicts.