Using ArcGIS Desktop

If there is more than one geodatabase topology on your map, use the drop-down list to select the one you want to
validate.
The toolbar includes three buttons that let you validate topologythey vary only in the extent of features they will
validate. You can validate feature topology within a selected area on the map, within the current extent of your map, or
the entire topology. When you click one of the three Validate Topology buttons, ArcMap checks the features against the
topology rules in the geodatabase. Any features that violate the rules are highlighted in red on the map. After validating,
use the Error Inspector to list the errorsclick the button on the toolbar to open the Error Inspector window. Use the
drop-down list to specify which errors to search for and list (based on the rule thats been broken), or select Errors from
all rules. Then click the Search Now button on the window.

Click one of the Validate Topology buttons on the toolbar

to validate the selected topology. Errors are highlighted
in red. In this example, there are two parcel overlap
errors, a street overlap, a pseudo node (a vertex that
connects two line segmentsit may be unnecessary),
and several dangles (a dangle is a vertex at the end of a
line segmentsome of these might be acceptable and
should be marked as exceptions).
Selected area

Click the Error Inspector

button on the toolbar to open
the Error Inspector window.
Then select the topology rules
from the drop-down list.

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Current extent
Entire topology

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When you select an error in the list, the corresponding feature is highlighted in black on the map. You can use the Error
Inspector to manage the errorsyou can sort the errors by any of the elds in the table so you can work with all the

errors of a given type. You can also limit the errors shown in the table to errors of a given type, errors that occur in the
currently visible map extent, or errors that have been marked as exceptions (that is, are acceptable, even though they
violate a topology rule).

When you select an error

in the Error Inspector table,
the corresponding feature
is highlighted on the map,
in black. Right-click a row to
zoom or pan to that feature.
Click a column heading to sort
by that column.

Once you identify errors, use the tools on the Topology toolbar to x them. In many cases, you can use the Fix

Topology Error tool on the toolbar to resolve errors. When you use the tool to select a feature that has an error, and then
right-click, applicable predened xes are displayed in the context menu. For example, if the error is an overlapping
polygon, the Merge x is available. If you click Merge, you can select which of the overlapping polygons will be

merged into the other. The same menu is displayed when you select and right-click an error in the Error Inspector
window.

Click the Fix Topology Error tool on

the toolbar, then right-click a selected
feature on the map. You can zoom or
pan to the feature, or select a xin this

example, selecting Merge lets you pick

the duplicate line to delete.

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