{"id":76081,"date":"2017-03-15T05:53:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T05:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/civilian-topographic-map-release-4-now-available\/"},"modified":"2018-03-27T01:04:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T01:04:21","slug":"civilian-topographic-map-release-4-now-available","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/data-management\/civilian-topographic-map-release-4-now-available","title":{"rendered":"Civilian Topographic Map Release 4 Now Available!"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23851,24641,22851,22941],"tags":[27971,25291,22901],"industry":[],"product":[],"class_list":["post-76081","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-management","category-defense","category-national-government","category-mapping","tag-editing","tag-esri-production-mapping","tag-national-government"],"acf":{"short_description":"Last Fall, Esri released version 3 of the Civilian Topographic Map (CTM) which allows users to use ArcGIS Workflow Manager to manage in-h...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Last Fall, Esri released <a title=\"CTM v3.0\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/2016\/10\/04\/civilian-topographic-map-release-3-now-available\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">version 3<\/a> of the Civilian Topographic Map (CTM) which allows users to use <a title=\"Workflow Manager product page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/software\/arcgis\/extensions\/arcgis-workflow-manager\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ArcGIS Workflow Manager<\/a> to manage in-house and contractor data extraction and quality control. Recently, we released version 4.<\/p>\n<p><em>What\u2019s new?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Generalization is an intensive process that requires heavy resources to complete on larger data sets. CTM Release 4 contains workflows for Distributed Generalization which allows you to split your data in to tiles based on a partition feature class, generalize each partition to a smaller scale, and then stitch the features back together into a continuous data set.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Distributed Generalization utilizes ArcGIS Workflow Manager as a queue of jobs, where each child job corresponds to one of the partitions. Included in <a title=\"Production Mapping product page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/software\/arcgis\/extensions\/production-mapping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Esri Production Mapping<\/a> 10.5 Patch 1, there is a utility to trigger the processes and automatically run each job.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CTMv4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CTMv4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1159\" height=\"642\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Link to Release 4: <a title=\"CTM v4.0\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Esri\/CTM\/releases\/tag\/v4.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/github.com\/Esri\/CTM\/releases\/tag\/v4.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Software Requirements: ArcGIS Desktop 10.5, Esri Production Mapping 10.5 Patch 1 (<em>note: ArcGIS Workflow Manager is included with Esri Production Mapping, but is a separate install. 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