Abstract

Annotation Classes - Annotation for any scale
Track: Defense and Intelligence
Authors: Carl Jaynes

The US Army Europe Sustainable Range Program (SRP) is responsible for developing and maintaining geo-spatial data for US and host nation training areas across Europe. This data provides the basis for a range of GIS products, which support the Integrated Training Area Management (ITAM) program, produced using ESRI ArcGIS, which are available to military units to support planning and execution of training exercises. One of the ways we provide support the military units is by a maintaining a large map repository with maps at various scales. By establishing Annotation Classes for the standard scales and/or map types (Imagery/Topographic) within a single Annotation Feature Class; the total number of Annotation FC required for a large map repository is significantly reduce, it helps speed up standard map annotation for custom map requests and allows non-GIS professionals to use a single annotation feature classes with limited knowledge of annotation scale ranges and settings.