I work for a county government in PA, and we use parcel fabric for our tax parcels.
My question is, how do you treat road right-of-ways in a parcel fabric? We still use the original workflow from the company who created the fabric, which has us parcel remaindering the ROW from the parcels that go past the ROW lines. We then delete this temporary ROW parcel and leave a hole for all ROW's. I asked why we did this as it causes issues with parcel joins in the center of the road and the use of control points there, and was told because that's how the company had us do it. I've since attended some conferences and workshops given by the company, and they don't really have a specific way of treating the ROW, it's the druthers of the person using the fabric. No one can give me a good reason of why it is beneficial or not to do this.
We've had discussion now about how to treat the ROW. We've discussed...
1) Keeping the road centerline as an unclosed line down the center of each road
2) drawing a polygon for each road segment, split at intersections, using the documents on hand to get bearings (combo of deeds and government data)
3) both 1 & 2 for keeping track of the ROW as well as the centerline overlapped, but not clipping parcels out
What do others do? Do you keep them? Do you ignore them? Do you have them overlay parcels without clipping?
I'm looking for workflow ideas and your opinion on the pros/cons of keeping those in the parcel fabric. we've had a similar discussion about municipal boundaries, and we're testing them in the fabric.