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 is docked at the top of the editor. It has three tabs, and each tab is divided into groups.

Tab

Group

Description

Map

Navigate

Navigating the map using pan and zoom controls

Find

Searching for routes based on network and route ID

Contents

Adding basemaps and DGN data, and viewing the table of contents

Identify

Identifying routes and events on the map

Edit

Selection

Selecting events on the basis of geometry, attributes, and proximity

Edit Events

Adding and editing point and line events and defining attribute sets

Redline Routes

Adding and editing redlines

Review

QC

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

Map Tab
Map Tab

Edit Tab
Edit Tab

Review Tab
Review Tab

Widgets

After clicking on a menu and selecting a widget, the widget will open. Most of the widgets are docked on the left side of the page.

After opening the widget, you can expand or contract the widget to a different size that will persist 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

Results grid

After running many widgets (Select Events, QC), a results grid will open containing event results. By default, the results grid will open 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 will persist across all sessions.

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

4/27/2014