3D Analyst Tools ArcToolbox

Contour Annotation, Map Server Cache Tiling Scheme to Polygons Tools

Contour Annotation 

How to use Contour Annotation Tool in ArcToolbox ArcMap ArcGIS??

Contour Annotation Tool

Contour Annotation Tool, Annotation Toolset, Cartography Toolbox

Contour Annotation

Creates annotation for contour features.

The tool creates an annotation feature class with corresponding mask polygons based on input contour features.

1.  Input Features

The contour line feature class for which the annotation will be created.

2.  Output Geodatabase

The workspace where the output feature classes will be saved. The workspace can be an existing geodatabase or an existing feature dataset.

3.  Contour Label Field

The field in the input layer attribute table upon which the annotation text will be based.

4.  Reference Scale

Enter the scale to use as a reference for the annotation. This sets the scale to which all symbol and text sizes in the annotation will be based.

5.  Output Layer Name

The group layer that will contain the contour layer, the annotation, and the mask layer. When working in ArcCatalog, you can use the Save To Layer File tool to write the output group layer to a layer file. When using ArcMap, the tool adds the group layer to the display if this option is checked in the geoprocessing options. The group layer that is created is temporary and will not persist after the session ends unless the document is saved.

6.  Contour and Label Color

The color of the output contour layer and annotation features.

1. BLACK—The output contour layer and annotation features will be drawn in black. This is the default.
2. BROWN—The output contour layer and annotation features will be drawn in brown.
3. BLUE—The output contour layer and annotation features will be drawn in blue.

7.  Contour Type Field (optional)

The field in the input layer attribute table containing a value for the type of contour feature. An annotation class will be created for each type value. 

8.  Contour Alignment (optional)

The annotation can be aligned to the contour elevations so that the top of the text is always placed uphill. This option allows the annotation to be placed upside down. The contour annotation can also be aligned to the page, ensuring that the text is never placed upside down.

1. PAGE— The annotation will be aligned to the page, ensuring that the text is never placed upside down. This is the default.
2. UPHILL—The annotation will be aligned to the contour elevations so that the top of the text is always placed uphill. This option allows the annotation to be placed upside down.

9.  Enable Laddering (optional)

Placing annotation in ladders will place the text so it appears to step up and step down the contours in a straight path. These ladders will run from the top of a hill to the bottom, will not cross each other, will belong to a single slope, and will not cross any other slope.

1. Checked—Annotation will step up and down the contours in a straight path.
2. Unchecked—Annotation will not be placed up and down the contours in a straight path. This is the default.

Map Server Cache Tiling Scheme to Polygons 

How to use Map Server Cache Tiling Scheme to Polygons Tool in ArcToolbox ArcMap ArcGIS??

Map Server Cache Tiling Scheme to Polygons

Map Server Cache Tiling Scheme to Polygons Tool, Annotation Toolset, Cartography Toolbox

Map Server Cache Tiling Scheme To Polygons

Creates a new polygon feature class from an existing tiling scheme.

This tool subdivides a data frame extent using the same scales as an existing map service cache tiling scheme and creates tiles over a large area, or supertile. Since the supertile extent is larger than the actual tiles defined in the scheme, tiles used as input into the Tiled Labels To Annotation tool can convert labels to annotation over a larger area at a time. This process minimizes annotation duplication across tiles.

1.  Map Document

The source map document.

2.  Data Frame

The data frame from the source map document.

3.  Tiling Scheme

Path to a predefined tiling scheme .xml file.

4.  Output Feature Class

The output polygon feature class.

5.  Generate polygons that intersect the map extent

Choose whether to produce tiles for the entire extent of the tiling scheme or only tiles that intersect the full extent of the data frame.

1. Checked—Polygon features will be created for the full extent of the data frame. This is the default.
2. Unchecked—Polygon features will be created for the full extent of the tiling scheme.

6.  Clip tiles at the coordinate system horizon

Choose whether to constrain the polygons to the valid area of use for the geographic or projected coordinate system of the data frame.

1. Checked—Polygon features will only be created within the valid area of use for the geographic or projected coordinate system of the data frame. Tiles that are within the extent of the tiling scheme but outside the extent of the coordinate system horizon will be clipped. This is the default.
2. Unchecked—Polygon features will be created for the full extent of the tiling scheme. Within each scale level, polygons will be of a uniform size and will not be clipped at the coordinate system horizon. This may create data that is outside the valid area of use for the geographic or projected coordinate system. If a scale within the tiling scheme would generate a tile that is larger than the spatial domain of the feature class, null geometry will be created for that feature.

7.  Generate polygons that match map service caches with anti-aliasing enabled (optional)

Choose whether to generate polygons that match map service caches with anti-aliasing enabled. A map service cache supertile is 2048 x 2048 pixels with antialiasing or 4096 x 4096 pixels without. To see if anti-aliasing was used in an existing cache, open the tiling scheme file, conf.xml, and check to see if the <Antialiasing> tag is set to true.

1. Checked—Polygon tiles will be created to match the supertile extent of a map service cache with anti-aliasing enabled.
2. Unchecked—Polygon tiles will be created to match the supertile extent of a map service cache without anti-aliasing enabled. This is the default.

8.  Scales (optional)

The scale levels at which you will create polygons. These scale levels will automatically populate based on the scale levels in the input tiling scheme. You may choose to create polygons for all or only some of the scale levels that are included in your tiling scheme. To add additional scale levels, however, you will need to modify your tiling scheme file or create a new one, as the Add Value button is always disabled for this tool.