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Having clean NG9-1-1 data is crucial to emergency response entities because it ensures they receive accurate locational information which can lead to faster response times and in turn can save lives. In the world of GIS, attribute rules within ArcGIS Pro play a significant role in upholding this data integrity, particularly when applied to NG9-1-1 datasets. Ensuring accuracy, consistency, and efficiency, attribute rules streamline data maintenance processes and enhance reliability.
Have you become reliant on Attribute Rules in your desktop workflows? Are you frustrated that you can’t extend those to your ArcGIS Online users? Well, we feel your pain. Attribute Rules have greatly simplified some of our processes and we have been looking for ways to replicate those natively in ArcGIS Online. ArcGIS Notebooks provide a web-based tool for ArcGIS Online users to closely replicate workflows built around those Attribute Rules you know and love.
Are you a rule follower or a rule breaker? We’ve got both in our office (I won’t mention any names…) but we all agree that Attribute Rules in ArcGIS Pro are the types of rules we can get behind. There are three rule types you can use to help keep your data in check: Calculation, Constraint, and Validation. Today I’m going to give some examples of creating and applying Calculation rules. If you’re an ArcMap user, this will look a lot like using Attribute Assistant, but better.
