What's new in Esri Defense Mapping (Defense Mapping)

With Esri Defense Mapping 10.1, several enhancements have been made to the user experience and the functionality.

New at Service Pack 1 Patch 6

The following changes were made in the Service Pack 1 Patch 6 release.

New geoprocessing tools

  • Create Adjoining Sheet Guide Data— A tool in the Cartographic Data toolset that creates data used in the adjoining sheet guide of Defense Mapping templates. The tool uses an input area of interest (AOI) to find surrounding areas of interest. It creates data within those AOIs in the ASG_COAST_L and ASG_LAND_A feature classes.
  • Create Elevation Guide Data—A tool in the Cartographic Data toolset that creates data required for an Elevation Guide Box in defense-specific map templates. This tool uses banding and thinning tools to create elevation bands, spot heights, and hydro features for the guide box.
  • Create Rapid Graphic—A tool in the Cartographic Data toolset that produces a complete map document (.mxd) based on a specified map product. The tool uses an input area of interest, defense map product and data model version, elevation and feature data, and several tools to create the map document. The output map document contains defense-specific graphics. Multiple output map documents are created if the Input Area of Interest has more than one selected feature.
  • Make Representations Invisible—A tool in the Cartographic Data toolset that sets feature representations invisible in an input feature layer or selected set of features. Setting a representation to invisible does not alter its feature geometry. Use this functionality to improve a map product's aesthetic or cartographic quality by hiding overlapping features and removing visual clutter.
  • Create Low And High Spots—A tool in the Hypsography toolset that finds the high and low spot heights for each feature in an input area of interest. Spot heights are appended to a Defense Mapping feature class.
  • Create Spot Heights—A tool in the Hypsography toolset that creates elevation point features based on contour tops and depressions. Elevation points are created in each top and depression. Point height values are populated based on a digital elevation model.
  • Suppress Spot Heights—A tool in the Hypsography toolset that suppresses the symbol for spot heights based on the input product type. The tool uses the Make Representations Invisible tool to suppress the spot height symbols.

Geoprocessing updates

  • The Create Contours and Code Contours tools were moved to the new Hypsography toolset.

Deprecated tools

The following Stereo Airfield tools were removed.

  • Validate SAC Shapefiles
  • Export SAC Data

New at Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 1 Patch 3

Layout elements

Coordinate display options were added to the properties of the ICM and TLM North Arrow elements.

Geoprocessing

The Reference Scale parameter was added to the Make Defense Grids and Graticules geoprocessing tool.

The following geoprocessing tools also were added.

Defense Mapping toolbox

Defense Mapping properties

Property Configuration dialog box

New tools

Geoprocessing enhancements

The following are enhancements that have been made to Defense Mapping.

Other enhancements

The following are enhancements that have been made to Defense Mapping.

12/22/2014