Day 1 ArcGIS Goals for the Afternoon
Layers and Layouts: ArcMap GUILayers and Layouts: ArcMap GUI
View and displayView and display
SymbolizeSymbolize (Lesson (Lesson 6) 6)
ArcToolboxArcToolbox
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Exploring the ArcMap interface
Table of Contents: Data views and layer legends are listed in the dockable Table of Contents
Menu barStandard toolbar
Title bar: Shows map name
Status bar: Describes selected buttons and menu items; reports coordinates
Display area: Map features draw in the display area
Sizable! Drag divider
Context menus: Right-click data or layers
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Maps contain layers
Layers: have (point to) a data source
can be saved with a map
can be saved as a file (Streets.lyr)
have symbology
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Layer data sources
Feature layer from a feature class (points, lines, polygons) Geodatabase, coverage, shapefile, CAD
Raster layers Grids and images
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Adding layer data
Using ArcCatalog Drag data from ArcCatalog to ArcMap
Using ArcMap File > Add data, Table of Contents context menu, Add Data
button
You pick the data and ArcMap generates a layer to point to that data
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Working with layers in the Table of Contents
Layers draw in their Table of Contents order, bottom up
Drag layers to reorder
Show, hide, rename, or remove layers
Group similar layers
View the source data
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Setting layer properties
In ArcMap or ArcCatalog
General
Source
Selection
Display
Symbology
Fields
Definition query
Labels
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Changing layer symbol and color
Right-click a symbol to set its color
Left-click to change symbol properties
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Exploring your data
Magnify and Overview windows
Spatial bookmarks
Zoom and Pan
Identify
Find
Hyperlinks
Layer tables
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Same data, different views
Magnify window Live or snapshot
Drag update
Scale (%)
Overview window Red zoom box
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Keeping track of where you have been
Spatial bookmarks Creating bookmarks
Naming bookmarks
Returning to a bookmarks
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Identifying a feature
Identify features in multiple layers
Set bookmarks
Add hyperlinks Can add multiple hyperlinks for
a single feature
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Finding a feature
Search All layers
Selectable layers
One layer by name
Flash
Zoom
Identify
Set bookmarks
Select the feature
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Looking at layer tables
Display tabular information
Formatted into records (rows) and fields (columns)
Contain descriptive information about features
Every layer has a table
One record per feature
Working with layers and layouts
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Setting layer properties
General
Source
Selection
Display
Symbology
Visibility
Fields
Definition query
Labels (Lesson 17)
Joins and relates (Lesson 9)
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Visible scale
Setting visibility scale
Minimum display scale
Maximum display scale
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Changing the data source for a layer
Map documents can lose track of the source data Source data gets moved
Source tab lets you change the data source for a layer Shortcut: Right-click the layer data > Data > Set Data Source
Layers with misplaced data
Click here to change the data source
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Selection color
Default
Selection symbol
Selection color
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Display properties
Map tips
Need spatial index for coverage and shapefile line and point feature classes
Scale symbols when reference scale is set
Transparency
Hyperlinks
Document
URL
Macro
Excluded features
Features can be excluded from drawing when converted to graphics
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Drawing properties
Single symbol
Unique value
Graduated colors andsymbols
Proportional symbol
Dot density
Charts
Imports symbology from layers or ArcView AVL files
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Using the classification histogram
Manage class breaks
Define Interval
Number of classes
Method
Right-click the histogram to Zoom in or out
Insert/Delete breaks
Center the histogram
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Examining the Fields property
Inspect field definition information
Set a primary display field (for map tips)
Make an alias
Change the number format Currency
Numeric
Move
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Creating a definition query
Create a query string
Only displays queried features
Does not affect source
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Data frame properties
Units
Frame and background symbology
Coordinate system
Illumination Light source for 3D data
Grids
Labels and annotation
Show extents for other data frames
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Ways to create a map
Create a map from scratch
Modify an existing map
Use predefined map templates
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Choosing a page size
Defined by printer Printer margins included
Custom paper size Printer margins
not included
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Inserting map elements
Insert menu Data frame
Text
Neatline
Legend
North arrow
Scale bar
Scale text
Picture
OLE object (MS Word, Excel, etc.)
Drawing toolbar Graphics
Text
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Design aids
Snapping elements
Rulers
Guides
Grids
Margins
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Arranging map elements
Group and ungroup
Graphics operations
Front and back draw order
Nudge
Align
Distribute
Rotate and flip
Properties
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Dataview
Layout view
Viewing a map
Layout view Work with the map page
(e.g., place map elements)
Data view Work with the data
(e.g., edit features)
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Layout view
USA data frame(Albers Equal Area)
World data frame(No projection)
Data frames
Containers for layers and graphics
Can have indexes and graticules
Have a coordinate system Project on the fly
First layer sets default
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Focused
Active
Selected
Data frame status
Select to move
New layers are added to active data frame
Data view displays active data frame (bold in TOC)
Focus to add graphics inside the data frame
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Storing map documents
Saved as MXD file by default
Can save as a template (MXT)
Can store relative or full path names File > Map properties > Data Source Options
Graphic formats BMP, EMF, EPS, PDF
ArcPress formats BIL, BIP, BSQ , TIFF, JPEG, PCX, PNG
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Log-in to ArcGIS
Let’s start ArcGIS.
just type “dts” in your Explorer browser ( https://dts.gov.bc.ca/ )
Let’s try some exercises to learn how to navigate around.
Working with Working with ArcToolboxArcToolbox
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ArcToolbox Goals
Introduction to ArcToolbox
Tool groups
Tools
Toolbox options
How ArcToolbox works
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Introduction to ArcToolbox
Graphical User Interface for Geoprocessing framework
Hundreds of tools.
Works with ArcCatalog and ArcMap (drag and drop)
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The Tool tree
Tools organized by function
Tree is only three levels deep: easy to find the tool you want
Tree objects
Toolbox
Tool sets
Models
Scripts
Tools
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Toolboxes
Data Management Merge, Append, Copy, Rename
Analysis Clip, Buffer, Erase, Intersect, Union
Conversion Convert GIS data between coverages, shapefiles, geodatabase,
CAD
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The Buffer tool
Working with tools
One panel
Help
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Setting input/output dataset names
Entering your data Type into field
Drag to field from ArcCatalog
Use minibrowser
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Finding tools
Find tools from Index or Search tab.
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Model Builder
Workflow diagram
Series of processes executed in a sequence.
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Congratulations, we’re done Part 2!
Questions!?
Up next, tomorrow morning, Part 3: Tables
Query & Analysis
Graphs & Reports