P. U. M. A.Planning's Universal Mapping Application
Mailing Labels. Start Crystal Reports mailing labels, no removal of duplicate records. Mailing Labels - Remove Duplicates. Start Crystal Reports mailing labels and runs a routine to remove duplicate records before creating the labels. Mailing List. Start Crystal Reports mailing list, generally used for record keeping in conjunction with mailing labels.
PUMA Tools : Menu choices for interacting with various aspects of PUMA Planning : Duplicates Mailing Label Buttons, and includes Buffering options.
Search Buttons: The top row of buttons provide the user with different ways of searching the database for an individual property, either by taxlot number, owner's name, or the property's address. Information Display: Below the search buttons is the area for displaying property information. This information is from the Josephine County Assessor's databases. This data is linked to the geographic information (i.e. the area extent of each taxlot and it's relationship to other data sets) by the taxlot number. Hazard Flags: Under these buttons, are a series of check boxes for "flagging" potentially limiting conditions on a property. These boxes will have a check mark in them if the condition exists anywhere on the property. So, just because the "flood" box is checked, does not mean there will be limitations on development. What it does mean is that there will need to be an examination of the property to determine if the flood zone on the property will coincide with the area to be used for development. The other check boxes work in the same way, except for the "violations" flag. If there is a current violation on a property, generally no permits will be issued until the violation is remedied. Additional Information Display: Information is presented for Home Occupation and Medical Hardships permits. This information is from a database maintained by the Planning Department. The labels will be grayed-out if no permit information is found in the database Information Buttons: Next, is a row of buttons for retrieving more detailed information about an individual taxlot. These buttons will be disabled (the button's label will be grayed-out and "clicking" the button will have no effect) if no information is available. For example, when viewing a property that is undeveloped, the "improvements" button will be disabled. Parts of Total Parcel: The final piece of information presented on this dialog is the "part of total parcel" section. This is used when a taxlot is not a legal parcel. Some taxlots exist solely for taxation purposes but are not a parcel, generally two or more of these taxlots together constitute the actual legal parcel. The combo-box on the right (with the down-facing triangle) will list the other taxlot numbers that make-up the parcel. The button labeled "View POTs" will outline all of the taxlots that make up the parcel in black and red. Zoom Lock: When a new parcel is selected, Puma will zoom to the selected parcel at a scale that is appropriate for the parcel. When the Zoom Lock feature is on (checked) the zoom level stays the same when new parcels are selected and the view is centered on the selected parcel. This is most useful when browsing through taxlots interactively, so the user is not disoriented by many scale (i.e. zoom level) changes. General Use Guidelines for 'Taxlot Search' How to query the GIS using the Property Information dialog Selecting a Taxlot The user may enter as much of the taxlot number as they know, and an asterisk for the portion they do not know. So, if the user entered "390505*", for example, all taxlots in Township 39, Range 05, Section 05 would be selected. From there the user could refine the selection using ArcView’s standard Selection Tool
Map Size: The options for size are common paper sizes. Most user's will only use the 8.5 X 11 option, due to the limitations of the printer available. The size can either be set to a default map size, or set directly from the printer. The Orientation: Orientation options are Landscape and Portrait. Portrait is the standard printer format. the map is longer than it is wide. Landscape orientation has the paper rotated 90 degrees, so that the map is wider than it is long. Map Title: The map title defaults to the taxlot number of the most recently selected taxlot. This text can be changed to any title desired. Locator Map: The locator map is located in the bottom right corner of the map. It shows a graphic of the extent of the map over a background of the PLSS lines for Josephine County. Map Scale: Once the map is created the user is presented with a list of options for the map's scale. The options are "retain scale", "user defined", and many predefined scales. The retain scale option leaves the map "as is". The user defined option allows the user to input a desired scale. Notes: If you intend on keeping this map in your project, you should rename it from "tmp" to another name (Layout>>Properties then type in a new name). Additionally, it may be desirable to remove the "live link" feature from the viewframe (the part of the map that shows geographic features). This will allow the user to continue working in PUMA without changing what the map looks like. To remove the live link from the viewframe: 1) select the viewframe (so it has black "handles" on it's four corners) 2) open the properties dialog (Graphics>>properties) 3) uncheck the box that is labeled "Live Link". This way the map will be "frozen", and will not change as you work in the PUMA view.
Find User Defined Themes: This button will launch a standard "find file" dialogue for the user to add themes not included in PUMA. Add/Delete Themes: After selecting the themes to add (by checking the box next to the theme) or to delete (by unchecking the box next to the theme) from the view, click this button to implement your changes.
Remove Labels: If the user has already added labels, then dialog for removing labels will be displayed first. Generally, it is desirable to remove the existing labels before adding more labels, though it is not required. Simply select the themes to remove labels from and click the "OK" button. The previously added labels will be removed.
Add Labels: After the Remove Labels dialog has been used, or if their are no existing labels, the Add Labels dialog will be displayed. Select the theme(s) you want labeled, then "click" the "OK" button. Labels will be added in the extents of the PUMA view, so the user should have only the area to be labeled displayed when adding labels. The labels will be placed using different sizes and fonts for the different themes being labeled. These labels are then attached to the various themes. So, if you turn off the visibility of the Soils theme, the corresponding Soil type labels will also disappear. turning the theme back on will restore these labels to visibility.
NOTES: Visibility: You may notice that there is no "roads" theme in PUMA. This is because PUMA is based on taxlot data, so the areas between taxlots represent the road right of way. However, there is a layer of road information used to generate the labels. If your road labels do not appear, check to make sure that the visibility of the theme at the bottom of the Table of Contents is turned on, as in the picture to the right. Label Size: Since labels are added in groups, resizing one taxlot label. for example, will change the size of all taxlot labels. To resize the labels, use the pointer tool
Select Shape Type: Select either Circle or Rectangle. If the circle is chosen, then radius or area can be used to specify the size of the shape. If the rectangle is chosen, then height and width are specified by the user.
Center Shape By: There are two options for centering the shape. The user can use the "point and click" tool to specify a certain location on the map. Select the "Point and Click Tool" option, then select the tool (follow the arrows after "point and click text to the tool). Once the tool is selected, click anywhere in the PUMA view and the coordinates will be captured and used to center the shape that is created. Alternatively, the centroid of the selected features can be used. This option is useful for centering the shape on a selected taxlot, for example. Be sure features are selected in the active theme (see Concepts page) or this option will not work. If multiple features are selected, an average of the centers will be used. Shape Parameters: First specify the units to be used by selecting an option from the drop down list. In the picture above, "Miles" have bee n selected as the units. This means any values entered for the size of the shape will be in miles. Other options include meters, feet, and kilometers. Depending on which shape type was selected, you will have different options for specifying the size of the shape to be created. 1) Circle Options. either the radius or the area may be entered. The radius is the distance from the center of a circle to the edge of the circle. If the area option is selected, the appropriate radius will be calculated to achieve the desired area. 2) Rectangle Option. Enter the height and width of the rectangle to be created. This, of course, creates a square by entering equal values for the height and width of the rectangle. Additional Options: Selecting the "Clear Previous Graphics" option will delete any previously created shapes. the "Select Taxlots Intersecting Your Shape" option will run a routine that will compare the created shape with taxlots, any taxlots intersecting the shape will be selected (see Concepts page). The selected set of taxlots can then be used for making address labels, or other further analysis.
First, select the taxlot(s) of interest. Next, launch the hazard analyst and select the theme you would like to analyze from the list presented. If you select one of the commonly analyzed themes such as slopes or soils, the Hazard analyst will choose the appropriate field from the themes attribute table, otherwise you may be asked which field to use in the reporting. Generally this would be a field that describes the hazard - such as "Flood_type" if you were analyzing a flood hazard.
Once the dialog is displayed, there are a number of uses available to the user. The Locate button will place a red dot on the screen at the location of the Latitude and Longitude specified in the boxes. If the location is not in the current extent of the view, the view will be panned to that location. The up and down arrow buttons allow the user to convert the coordinates from one system to the other, in the direction of the arrow. Therefore, if you have a particular latitude/longitude you are looking for, you use the tool to open the dialog, change the latitude and longitude values to the ones you are interested in, and then use the Locate button to graphically see the location, and the down arrow button to see the values of the UTM Easting and Northing . Notes: Northing and Latitude specify the "Y" coordinate (i.e. North to South) value of a point, while the Longitude and Easting specify the "X" coordinate (i.e. East to West) value of a point.
As well as locating addresses, the user has the option of finding streets by intersection. For example, typing 'fruitdale & drury' in the dialog box will zoom the view to the intersection of Fruitdale Drive and Drury Lane.
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