Overview of the Roadway Characteristics Editor user guide

Features of the Roadway Characteristics Editor

The Roadway Characteristics Editor is a web application for adding, selecting, and editing linear referenced event data. Notable features include route searching, attribute set-based route attribution, quality control of events checks, event data query, and event editing and route redlining.

Layout

The Roadway Characteristics Editor layout includes a ribbon toolbar, widgets, results grid, and floating windows.

RCE's components
Roadway Characteristics Editor's components

Ribbon toolbar

The ribbon toolbar docks at the top of the editor. It has three tabs, and each tab is divided into groups.

Tab

Group

Description

Map

Navigate

Navigates the map using pan and zoom controls.

Find

Searches for routes based on network and route ID.

Contents

Adds basemaps and DGN data, and views the table of contents.

Identify

Identifies routes and events on the map.

Edit

Selection

Selects events on the basis of geometry, attributes, and proximity.

Edit Events

Adds and edits point and line events, and defines attribute sets.

Redline Routes

Adds and edits redlines.

Review

QC

Performs quality control checks on a specific route to find gaps, overlaps, and invalid measures in the events.

Versioning

Reconciles and posts data against other versions.

Data Reviewer

Executes Data Reviewer checks on events and views results.

Markup

Adds markup symbols to the map for the RCE session.

Map tab
Map tab

Edit tab
Edit tab

Review Tab
Review tab

Widgets

After clicking a menu and selecting a widget, the widget opens. Most of the widgets dock on the left side of the page.

After opening the widget, you can expand or contract the widget to a different size that persists across all sessions.

To minimize the widget, click the left-facing arrow. To close the widget, click the x on the top right.

Split Events widget
Split Events widget in the Roadway Characteristics Editor

Results grid

After running many widgets (Select Events, QC), a results grid opens containing event results. By default, the results grid opens at the bottom of the page; however, this is configurable. You can directly edit event records in the results grid. The results grid contains four tools that can help you edit event data: Zoom To (selected events), Select All, Save Changes, and Calculate Field.

Roadway Characteristics Editor results grid

Similar to widgets, you can expand and contract the results grid to a different size that persists across all sessions.

To minimize the results grid, click the down-facing arrow (similar to widgets).

10/14/2014