Spatial Relationships

Spatial relationships automatically update features based on their location relative to other features to help aid general editing and maintaining these relationships. These are used to speed up filling out information when adding new features. It is most often used to update a child record with a parent records id number. For example it can update a sewer pipe with up and down stream manhole numbers, or update play ground equipment with the park id. The spatial relate can update any fields, whether or not they are linked to lucity and it can use non-Lucity feature classes to update Lucity feature classes.

Triggering a Spatial Relationship update

There are three ways in which spatial relationships are triggered:

  1. Within an ArcMap edit session, when a feature is created or edited.
  2. Within an ArcMap edit session using the "Update Spatial Relationships" tool on the Lucity GIS Edit toolbar. This tool is typically used if the data was imported using a non-Lucity import tool or was added during a non-Lucity edit session.
  3. When the Lucity Data loader tool is used, it automatically checks for spatial relationships.

Considerations

Which features require data from other features?

Which features would benefit from having data pulled over from other features?

What is the relationship between these features?

How To

Add a Spatial Relationship

Delete a Spatial Relationship

See Also

Geodatabase Configuration tool

Navigation and Tools

Geodatabase Configuration

Feature Class Configuration

Number Generator

Geodatabase Tools