General

The following new features and general improvements are available in Urban in ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5:

• Create a copy of an urban model.
• Use the new viewshed tool to analyze the visible and invisible areas from a given observer point.
• Use improved editing constraints to do the following:
  • Edit the vertices of existing polygon geometries, such as buildings or study areas, by inputting exact coordinate values.
  • Move the edges of a building space by inputting an offset value.
  • Place new and existing point geometries, such as trees or street furniture in the project editor, at specific locations by inputting exact coordinate values.
• Urban can now show media layers loaded from web scenes.
• Experience improved performance when navigating the 3D map view.

Data manager, plan configuration, and project configuration

The following new features and improvements are available in the data manager only:

• Import projects from a point feature layer.
• There are no more limitations around viewing and joining data when importing more than 1,000 features (for example, projects, zoning types, and so on).

The following new features and improvements are available in the data manager as well as the plan configuration:

• Experience improved validation feedback when importing data that includes JSON objects.

The following new features and improvements are available in the plan as well as in the project configuration:

• You can now configure JPG and PNG files as thumbnails. Until now, Urban only supported JPEG.

Plan editing

The following new features and improvements were added to the plan editing experience:

• There is a new user experience for metrics. It is referred to as the new metrics. The new user experience for metrics coexists with the existing user experience for this release . The existing user experience is now referred to as the old metrics. See Configure the dashboard to learn more. The new metrics user experience includes the following:
  • Convert the old metrics to new metrics.
  • Use the new metrics graph to configure metrics, including undo and redo capability and a search bar.
  • Use the new operators to calculate metrics, including subtraction and division.
  • Explore additional built-in metrics. Apart from the net space area, you can now also base the metric calculation on additional built-in metrics for spaces and surfaces, buildings, and parcels.
  • Use the new resolution capability to configure whether to calculate the metric per space or surface, building, parcel, or study area.
  • Use the new aggregation capability to configure whether and how to aggregate the metric to specific levels of resolutions.
• The user experience for manually adding and editing existing metric value pins is improved.
• The performance of the suitability tool is improved.
• A new tooltip in the development side panel explains the calculation of dwelling units.

Urban in ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5

The following are known limitations specific to Urban in ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5:

• There is no example city.
• ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World data is not included when you create an urban model using the USA Default template.
• The public feedback and internal discussion features are not available for plans and projects.

General known limitations

The following are general known limitations of Urban:

• The Select basemap dialog box only displays basemaps if you configured a basemap gallery in your organization. See the Configure map topic in the ArcGIS Enterprise documentation to learn more about configuring the basemap gallery.
• The number of vertices of the study area geometry can impact the performance when loading the plan and when editing parcels. Consider simplifying the study area geometry before importing it. See Simplify Polygon to learn how you can do this with ArcGIS Pro.
• The number of parcels per scenario can impact the performance when coloring the parcels according to the calculated suitability score. Consider creating a scenario web scene that includes the suitability scores and configure it as scenario context to reduce the loading time for visualizing suitability scores in the plan editor. See Work with scenario web scenes to learn how to export suitability scores and Configure scenario context to learn how to add a scenario context.
• You cannot copy urban models, plans, and projects from a coordinate system with metric units to a coordinate system with US Standard units and vice versa. This is due to a platform limitation for vertical coordinates. You will receive an error message when trying to copy to a coordinate system with a different unit.
• Basemaps that you published in a way that their spatial reference includes a WKT (well-known text) instead of a WKID (well-known ID) identifier currently cannot be used to create or copy urban models.
• Feature services that you published in a way that their spatial reference includes a WKT (well-known text) instead of a WKID (well-known ID) identifier currently cannot be used to import data to Urban.
• In the Copy parcels tool, you can choose how to handle parcel overlaps. If parcels need to be clipped, multipart features might be created. Applying building types, showing envelopes, and editing parcel edges is currently not fully supported on those parcels. Use the split tool to split multipart parcels after copying.