INTRODUCTION TO ARCGIS
CONTENTS PART 1 GETTING TO KNOW GIS CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCING GIS 1 CHAPTER 2 INTRODUCING ARCGIS 19 PART 2 GETTING STARTED WITH MAPS AND DATA CHAPTER 3 INTERACTING WITH MAPS 29 EXERCISE 3A DISPLAYING MAP DATA 33 EXERCISE 3B NAVIGATING A MAP 49 EXERCISE 3C USING BASIC TOOLS 56 EXERCISE 3D LOOKING AT FEATURE ATTRIBUTES 68 CHAPTER 4 INTERACTING WITH DATA 79 EXERCISE 4A BROWSING THROUGH MAP DATA 82 EXERCISE 4B ADDING DATA TO A MAP 93 EXERCISE 4C WORKING WITH MAP LAYERS 106 CHAPTER 5 EXPLORING ONLINE RESOURCES 121 EXERCISE 5A CREATING A WEB MAP 126 EXERCISE 5B MERGING ONLINE AND LOCAL LAYERS 138 EXERCISE 5C SHARING A MAP PACKAGE 148 PART 3 DISPLAYING AND PRESENTING DATA CHAPTER 6 WORKING WITH COORDINATE SYSTEMS AND PROJECTIONS 153 EXERCISE 6A EXAMINING COORDINATE SYSTEMS 164 EXERCISE 6B PROJECTING DATA 173 EXERCISE 6C DE NING A MAP PROJECTION 189 EXERCISE 6D GEOREFERENCING A RASTER 199 CHAPTER 7 SYMBOLIZING FEATURES 213 EXERCISE 7A CREATING CUSTOM SYMBOLOGY 217 EXERCISE 7B SYMBOLIZING FEATURES BY CATEGORICAL ATTRIBUTES 228 EXERCISE 7C USING STYLES AND CREATING LAYER LES 239 EXERCISE 7D SYMBOLIZING RASTERS 247 CHAPTER 8 CLASSIFYING FEATURES 259 EXERCISE 8A CLASSIFYING FEATURES BY STANDARD METHODS 263 EXERCISE 8B MAPPING DENSITY 278 EXERCISE 8C USING GRADUATED AND CHART SYMBOLS 286 CHAPTER 9 LABELING FEATURES 299 EXERCISE 9A USING DYNAMIC LABELS 302 EXERCISE 9B SETTING RULES FOR LABEL PLACEMENT 308 EXERCISE 9C CREATING GRAPHIC LABELS 319 EXERCISE 9D CONVERTING DYNAMIC LABELS TO ANNOTATION 326 CHAPTER 10 MAKING MAPS FOR PRESENTATION 333 EXERCISE 10A CREATING A LAYOUT 336 EXERCISE 10B ADDING TITLES AND ADDITIONAL TEXT 352 EXERCISE 10C ADDING STANDARD MAP ELEMENTS 361 EXERCISE 10D ADDING NAL TOUCHES AND SETTING PRINT OPTIONS 377 PART 4 CREATING AND EDITING DATA CHAPTER 11 BUILDING GEODATABASES 389 EXERCISE 11A CREATING A GEODATABASE 392 EXERCISE 11B CREATING FEATURE CLASSES 399 CHAPTER 12 CREATING FEATURES 411 EXERCISE 12A DRAWING FEATURES 414 EXERCISE 12B USING MORE CONSTRUCTION TOOLS 423 CHAPTER 13 EDITING FEATURES 435 EXERCISE 13A DELETING AND MODIFYING FEATURES 436 EXERCISE 13B SPLITTING AND MERGING FEATURES 449 EXERCISE 13C EDITING FEATURE ATTRIBUTE VALUES 458 CHAPTER 14 GEOCODING ADDRESSES 467 EXERCISE 14A CREATING AN ADDRESS LOCATOR 470 EXERCISE 14B MATCHING ADDRESSES 478 EXERCISE 14C REMATCHING ADDRESSES 489 PART 5 GETTING INFORMATION ABOUT FEATURES CHAPTER 15 QUERYING DATA 499 EXERCISE 15A SELECTING AND NDING FEATURES 501 EXERCISE 15B USING ATTRIBUTE QUERIES 517 EXERCISE 15C CREATING REPORTS 528 CHAPTER 16 SELECTING FEATURES BY LOCATION 539 EXERCISE 16A USING LOCATION QUERIES 540 EXERCISE 16B COMBINING ATTRIBUTE AND LOCATION QUERIES 550 CHAPTER 17 JOINING AND RELATING DATA 557 EXERCISE 17A JOINING DATA BY ATTRIBUTE 563 EXERCISE 17B RELATING DATA 578 EXERCISE 17C JOINING DATA BY LOCATION 590 PART 1 GETTING TO KNOW GIS CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCING GIS LEARNING OBJECTIVES LEARN THE USES OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS GIS LEARN HOW GIS LAYERS WORK DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN GIS FEATURES AND SURFACES OBTAIN PRELIMINARY UNDERSTANDING OF FEATURE LOCATIONS SCALE AND ATTRIBUTES OBTAIN PRELIMINARY UNDERSTANDING OF SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FEATURES A GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM GIS ALLOWS YOU TO STUDY AND EXPLORE EVERYTHING ABOUT A PLACE WITH A GIS YOU CAN IDENTIFY AND ANALYZE THE LAND FEATURES CLIMATE BOUNDARIES POPULATION RESOURCES AND MANY OTHER THINGS ABOUT PLACES THAT INTEREST YOU IN THE PAST YOU NEEDED TO USE PAPER MAPS GLOBES AND A VARIETY OF HARD COPY DATA SOURCES TO PERFORM THESE ANALYSES NOW A GIS MAKES THE MAPS GLOBES DATA AND ANALYSIS TOOLS AVAILABLE ON YOUR COMPUTER ALLOWING YOU TO PERFORM SOPHISTICATED ANALYSIS MAP YOUR RESULTS AND STORE AND SHARE YOUR INFORMATION DIGITALLY AN EXAMPLE OF THE TYPE OF MAP YOU COULD STUDY OR CREATE IN A GIS IS A POPULATION DENSITY MAP WHICH SHOWS THE DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION IN RELATION TO SPECI C AREAS E G CITIES CENSUS TRACTS COUNTIES STATES COUNTRIES POPULATION DENSITY INFORMATION IS IMPORTANT TO CONSIDER WHEN YOU ARE MAPPING AREAS THAT VARY GREATLY IN SIZE FOR EXAMPLE 200 000 PEOPLE LIVING IN AN 8 SQUARE MILE COUNTY AND 200 000 PEOPLE LIVING IN AN 80 SQUARE MILE COUNTY ARE VERY DI ERENT CONDITIONS POPULATION DENSITY IN TURN PROVIDES CONTEXT FOR OTHER MAPS IN YOUR STUDY WHICH MAY SHOW DEMOGRAPHICS ECONOMIC STATISTICS OR HOUSING PRICES