{"id":671012,"date":"2020-02-19T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T20:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=671012"},"modified":"2020-02-19T12:42:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T20:42:03","slug":"use-dataset-management-tools-to-explore-data-changes","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/data-management\/use-dataset-management-tools-to-explore-data-changes","title":{"rendered":"Use Dataset Management Tools to Explore Data Changes"},"author":7871,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23851],"tags":[230422],"industry":[],"product":[],"class_list":["post-671012","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-management","tag-data"],"acf":{"short_description":"Figure out what data has changed, and where, with these dataset management tools and workflows in ArcGIS.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Dataset management in ArcGIS has plenty of supporting tools and workflows, but when you don’t have control for any reason, you may be the person who has to figure out what data changed, and where.<\/p>\n

This blog is about a tool published in the ArcGIS Online<\/a> sample galleries for bulk change detection between pairs of feature classes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My first example datasets are two parcel feature classes, where one has been revised with survey and subdivision work, but without any edit tracking fields \u2014 the data is not managed in ArcGIS. The maps are named for their content, Original <\/strong>has the old data, Revised<\/strong> has the new data.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":671042,"id":671042,"title":"DatasetManagement1","filename":"DatasetManagement1.png","filesize":197807,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DatasetManagement1.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/data-management\/use-dataset-management-tools-to-explore-data-changes\/datasetmanagement1","alt":"Two datasets with 650,000 features each.","author":"7871","description":"Two datasets with 650,000 features each.","caption":"Two datasets with 650,000 features each.","name":"datasetmanagement1","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":671012,"date":"2019-12-04 15:48:46","modified":"2019-12-04 16:40:00","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1599,"height":871,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DatasetManagement1-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DatasetManagement1.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":253,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DatasetManagement1.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":418,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DatasetManagement1.png","large-width":1599,"large-height":871,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DatasetManagement1-1536x837.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":837,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DatasetManagement1.png","2048x2048-width":1599,"2048x2048-height":871,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DatasetManagement1-826x450.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":450,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DatasetManagement1.png","wide_image-width":1599,"wide_image-height":871}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

The two datasets have about 650,000 features each over a huge area, so visual comparison is impossible, especially as I need to compare attributes too. The Feature Compare<\/strong> geoprocessing tool is an option if my data has a unique key field to sort on (it does) but its output is a table, I want features.<\/p>\n

The Pro Change Detector tool<\/a> delivers flexible change detection between two feature classes with your choice of attribute and geometry comparison, and outputs feature classes of Adds<\/strong>, Deletes<\/strong>, Updates<\/strong> and NoChanges<\/strong> (Updates are only detectable if the data has a unique key field separate to ObjectID; without a key field updates are output as spatially overlapping deletes and adds).<\/p>\n

The tool requires the ArcGIS Data Interoperability<\/strong> extension, but you don’t have to learn to drive the Workbench application delivered with Data Interoperability, this sample is just a normal Python script tool.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For my parcel data I chose all the attributes to be considered as well as geometry:<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":671102,"id":671102,"title":"DatasetManagement2","filename":"DatasetManagement2.png","filesize":9498,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DatasetManagement2.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/data-management\/use-dataset-management-tools-to-explore-data-changes\/datasetmanagement2","alt":"Choosing the attributes and geometry to be considered.","author":"7871","description":"Choosing the attributes and geometry to be considered.","caption":"Choosing the attributes and geometry to be considered.","name":"datasetmanagement2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":671012,"date":"2019-12-04 16:41:59","modified":"2019-12-04 16:42:46","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":401,"height":658,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DatasetManagement2-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DatasetManagement2.png","medium-width":159,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DatasetManagement2.png","medium_large-width":401,"medium_large-height":658,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DatasetManagement2.png","large-width":401,"large-height":658,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DatasetManagement2.png","1536x1536-width":401,"1536x1536-height":658,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DatasetManagement2.png","2048x2048-width":401,"2048x2048-height":658,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DatasetManagement2-283x465.png","card_image-width":283,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DatasetManagement2.png","wide_image-width":401,"wide_image-height":658}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Then 7 1\/2minutes later after comparing ~650,000 features per input, I had my change sets:<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":740632,"id":740632,"title":"Data Interoperability","filename":"data3.png","filesize":22044,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data3.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/data-management\/use-dataset-management-tools-to-explore-data-changes\/data3","alt":"","author":"7871","description":"","caption":"","name":"data3","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":671012,"date":"2020-02-19 02:10:17","modified":"2020-02-19 02:10:28","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":945,"height":772,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data3-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data3.png","medium-width":319,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data3.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":627,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data3.png","large-width":945,"large-height":772,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data3.png","1536x1536-width":945,"1536x1536-height":772,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data3.png","2048x2048-width":945,"2048x2048-height":772,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data3-569x465.png","card_image-width":569,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data3.png","wide_image-width":945,"wide_image-height":772}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

You can compare any geometry type but if you are going to do change detection of multiple pairs of feature classes, be sure to change the output objects’ names as the tool will overwrite its outputs. Alternatively, keep your data in separate project databases (see below).<\/p>\n

For a second example, I decided to “go big” and compare two street address datasets each with about 2 million features and a lot of attributes:<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":740642,"id":740642,"title":"Data Interoperability","filename":"data4.png","filesize":30685,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data4.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/data-management\/use-dataset-management-tools-to-explore-data-changes\/data4","alt":"","author":"7871","description":"","caption":"","name":"data4","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":671012,"date":"2020-02-19 02:10:51","modified":"2020-02-19 02:11:02","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":371,"height":900,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data4-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data4.png","medium-width":108,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data4.png","medium_large-width":371,"medium_large-height":900,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data4.png","large-width":371,"large-height":900,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data4.png","1536x1536-width":371,"1536x1536-height":900,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data4.png","2048x2048-width":371,"2048x2048-height":900,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data4-192x465.png","card_image-width":192,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data4.png","wide_image-width":371,"wide_image-height":900}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Now, it’s 22 minutes to find a couple of thousand changes to 2 million features:<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":740652,"id":740652,"title":"Data Interoperability","filename":"data5.png","filesize":23380,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data5.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/data-management\/use-dataset-management-tools-to-explore-data-changes\/data5","alt":"","author":"7871","description":"","caption":"","name":"data5","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":671012,"date":"2020-02-19 02:11:27","modified":"2020-02-19 02:11:38","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":959,"height":729,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data5-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data5.png","medium-width":343,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data5.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":584,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data5.png","large-width":959,"large-height":729,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data5.png","1536x1536-width":959,"1536x1536-height":729,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data5.png","2048x2048-width":959,"2048x2048-height":729,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data5-612x465.png","card_image-width":612,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data5.png","wide_image-width":959,"wide_image-height":729}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

…and in the map, it is easy to find a locality where subdivision has resulted in new addresses being created \u2014 see the extra address points in the Revised map:<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":740662,"id":740662,"title":"Data Interoperability","filename":"data6.png","filesize":99222,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data6.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/data-management\/use-dataset-management-tools-to-explore-data-changes\/data6","alt":"","author":"7871","description":"","caption":"","name":"data6","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":671012,"date":"2020-02-19 02:12:04","modified":"2020-02-19 02:12:14","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1599,"height":871,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data6-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data6.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":253,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data6.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":418,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data6.png","large-width":1599,"large-height":871,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data6-1536x837.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":837,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data6.png","2048x2048-width":1599,"2048x2048-height":871,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data6-826x450.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":450,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data6.png","wide_image-width":1599,"wide_image-height":871}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

To use the tool, your data must be in a single File Geodatabase.<\/strong> Here is how my Catalog pane looks, note, to preserve my change sets, I used two separate databases in the Project.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":740672,"id":740672,"title":"Data Interoperability","filename":"data7.png","filesize":10940,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data7.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/data-management\/use-dataset-management-tools-to-explore-data-changes\/data7","alt":"","author":"7871","description":"","caption":"","name":"data7","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":671012,"date":"2020-02-19 02:12:35","modified":"2020-02-19 02:12:45","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":381,"height":874,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data7-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data7.png","medium-width":114,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data7.png","medium_large-width":381,"medium_large-height":874,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data7.png","large-width":381,"large-height":874,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data7.png","1536x1536-width":381,"1536x1536-height":874,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data7.png","2048x2048-width":381,"2048x2048-height":874,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data7-203x465.png","card_image-width":203,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/data7.png","wide_image-width":381,"wide_image-height":874}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

The tool was created with ArcGIS Pro 2.5 beta 2<\/strong> software (sharp-eyed people will see the new style geoprocessing Details view above) but works in Pro 2.4. You will need ArcGIS Data Interoperability<\/strong> installed and licensed, and you’ll need permission to copy a file into the install of your Pro software, please see the README file in the download.<\/p>\n

Now go detect some changes and comment in this blog how you get on!<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":3941,"user_firstname":"Bruce","user_lastname":"Harold","nickname":"Bruce Harold","user_nicename":"bruce_harold","display_name":"Bruce Harold","user_email":"bharold@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:15:35","user_description":"Career GIS practitioner who started out in industrial process optimization, now a Product Manager at Esri on the Redlands campus, responsible for the ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension and exploring ETL methods.","user_avatar":""},{"ID":7871,"user_firstname":"Dorothy","user_lastname":"Ho","nickname":"DHo","user_nicename":"dho","display_name":"Dorothy Ho","user_email":"DHo@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-05-02 15:55:13","user_description":"Product marketer. Map lover. 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