The Esri Defense Mapping release at 10.5 includes enhancements to performance and new geoprocessing tools.
New at 10.5.1 patches
The latest patch includes the following:
- Support for the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG) TDS 7 schema and various support files have been added.
- The following geoprocessing tools have been updated to support the NSG TDS 7 schema:
- The Create Bands From Raster geoprocessing tool now includes an in_number_of_bands parameter that specifies the number of guide bands generated by the tool and an in_contour_interval parameter that specifies the contour interval used when calculating the band area.
- The Create Elevation Guide Data geoprocessing tool now includes an in_number_of_bands parameter that specifies the number of guide bands generated by the tool and an in_contour_interval parameter that specifies the contour interval used when calculating the band area.
- The Create Rapid Graphic geoprocessing tool now includes an in_contour_interval parameter that specifies the contour interval used when calculating the band area.
- The Topographic Data Store (TDS) 7 schemas are now supported and their various support files have been added.
- The Topographic Map (TM) product uses the latest TM specifications for cartographic representation.
New at 10.5.1
New tools
Generate Masks is a geoprocessing tool that generates annotation masks for symbolized feature layers based on an XML rule file.
Other geoprocessing enhancements
Support for the MGCP TRD 4.4 schema and various support files has been added.
New at 10.5 patches
The latest patch includes the following:
Calculate Vertical Obstruction Elevations is a new geoprocessing tool that calculates and adds the HGT, ZV2, and ZVH fields to Vertical Obstruction feature classes in the input geodatabase.
New at 10.5
New tools
The following Esri Defense Mapping tools have been added:
- Geodatabase To GeoNames is a new tool in the Data Management toolbox, in the Geodatabase toolset, that allows you to convert GeoNames features in a geodatabase to a GeoNames text file.
- GeoNames To Geodatabase is a new tool in the Data Management toolbox, in the Geodatabase toolset, that allows you to load a GeoNames text file into GeoNames features in a geodatabase.
- Unpack Product Files is a new tool in the Utilities toolset that allows you to extract installed product files from the installation directory to another location.
New TDS Generalization toolbox
For implementations with ArcGIS Workflow Manager, a new TDS Generalization toolbox has been added to the TDS Generalization workflows to support generation of 50K to 250K data.
Enhancements
The following Esri Defense Mapping tools have been updated:
- Create Elevation Guide Bands Data has been updated to improve performance and memory management.
- Create Adjoining Sheet Guide Data has been updated to improve performance and memory management.
- Create Rapid Graphic has been updated to improve error handling and reporting.
- Validate Spot Heights has been updated to improve performance.
- Select AOI has been added to Defense Mapping custom steps.
Deprecated tools
The following Esri Defense Mapping tools have been deprecated:
- The Create Smooth TLM Elevation Guide Bands from Raster tool was removed and its functionality has been added to the Create Bands from Raster tool.
- The Export Map Document tool was removed from the Utilities toolset and its functionality has been added to the Create Rapid Graphic tool.
- The Update Data Frames tool was removed from the Utilities toolset and its functionality has been added to the Create Rapid Graphic tool.