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