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Introduction to ArcGIS II
for ArcView 9, ArcEditor 9, and ArcInfo 9
$1,250 (3-Day) training course

Overview

Extend what you learned in Introduction to ArcGIS I. This course focuses on spatial analysis, automation of spatial and attribute data, editing, and advanced options for cartographic display. A portion of the class is reserved for carrying out an analysis project and applying many of the new skills and techniques learned in this course. Participants conduct queries, perform spatial analysis, and present their results in a hard-copy map.

Audience

This course is designed for those with fundamental knowledge of ArcGIS and geographic information systems in general.

Goals

            • Perform spatial analysis
            • Manage geographic data
            • Perform geocoding
            • Automate data through heads-up digitizing
            • Convert data from other formats
            • Edit spatial and attribute data
            • Create and use metadata
            • Produce high-quality maps and reports


Topics Covered

Spatial analysis and data management: Buffers; Spatial overlays; Extracting features for analysis; Analytical methods and tools

Geocoding and display of locations from tabular data: Address geocoding; Display of points from x,y coordinates

Editing: Tools for creating and editing spatial data; Editing attribute data; Spatial adjustment

Data automation: Data sources; Digitizing; Data conversion

Project management: Database organization; File and directory naming conventions; Creating and using metadata

Cartography: Advanced symbology and labeling

Prerequisites and Recommendations

This course is for those who have completed Introduction to ArcGIS I.

If the prerequisite course is not completed, a participant should have comparable experience with ArcGIS before taking this course.


Introduction
Working with
Layers and Maps
Working with Labels
and Annotation

 

* Course overview

* ArcGIS products

* ArcGIS applications

* ArcGIS desktop applications

* ArcGIS extensions

* Working with geographic data

* Storing geographic data

* ArcGIS spatial data formats

* Features and topology

* Storing spatial relationships

* ArcGIS tabular data formats

* Storing attribute data

* Accessing attributes from multiple tables

* Load class database

* Using ArcCatalog

* Three ways to view data

* Connecting to folders

* Adding tables from existing sources

* Setting viewable data

* Managing file types visible in ArcCatalog

* Accessing data on the internet

* Searching for data

Exercise 1: Working with data in ArcCatalog

 

* Setting layer properties

* Changing the data source for a layer

* Display properties

* Layer symbology

* Using the classification histogram

* Creating a definition query

* Symbology

* Stylesheets

* Using the Style Manager

* Creating custom symbols

* Creating custom lines and markers

* Ways to create a map

* Building templates

* Changing templates

* Exporting a map

* Exercise 2: Working with layers and layouts

 

* Labeling options

* Point placement

* Line placement

* Label visibility

* Labeling with an expression

* Labeling features differently

* Setting reference scale

* Creating annotation

* Storing annotation

* Overflow window

* Exercise 3: Creating labels and annotation


Displaying Locations
from Tabular Data
Modifying the ArcGIS
Interface
Designing a GIS Database

 

* What is geocoding?

* The geocoding process

* Creating a geocoding service in ArcCatalog

* Field mapping to geocoding style

* Geocoding Services properties

* Adding a geocoding service in ArcMap

* Geocoding a table

* Unmatched records

* New fields in the output point feature class

* Finding an address with the Find tool

* Adding XY data in ArcMap

* Exercise 4: Geocoding address locations

 

* Why modify the interface?

* Saving and accessing your customizations

* Introducing the Customize dialog

* Modifying the user interface

* Creating a new toolbar

* Adding and removing commands

* Adding commands to context menus

* Programming a shortcut key

* Locking down customizations

* Exercise 5: Modifying the ArcGIS interface

 

* The database design procedure

* Assessing needs

* Conceptual and logical design

* Determining the data storage format

* Why the geodatabase?

* Physical design

* Database schema

* Metadata: Documenting your data

* Types of metadata

* Viewing metadata

* Editing metadata documentation

* Setting metadata properties

* Metadata import and export

* Choosing a database projection

* The UTM projection series

* Automation plan

* Pilot project

* Exercise 6A: Organizing a GIS database

* Exercise 6B: Explore the REGIS database

* Exercise 6C: Exploring the REGIS Project Metadata


Automating Data
Editing the Database
Schema
Editing Spatial and
Atribute Data

 

* Many spatial data automation options

* Creating new data

* Georeferencing your data

* Coordinate space

* Spatial reference

* Building a master ground control feature class

* Georeferencing new data

* Georeferencing existing data

* Creating feature datasets

* Setting the spatial reference

* Creating a new feature class in ArcCatalog

* Defining feature class properties

* Digitizing in ArcMap

* Snapping

* Using snapping

* Exercise 7A: Digitizing data in ArcMap

* Data converting digital data

* Data conversion post processing

* ArcToolboc Build and Clean tools

* ArcToolbox Clean tolerances

* Building a database from existing data sources

* Importing data into the geodatabase

* ArcCatalog Simple Data Loader

* Importing data from the internet

* Using geocoding to create spatial data

* Data conversion post processing

* Exercise 7B: Converting existing data

* Exercise 7C: Load a shapefile into the geodatabase

* Exercise 7D: Importing data into the geodatabase

* Exercise 7E: Exporting data from ArcMap

 

* Why make schema changes?

* Adding table fields

* Deleting table fields

* Defining a field alias

* Introducing subtypes and domains

* Anatomy of a subtype

* Setting subtypes

* Editing with subtypes

* Domains

* Anatomy of a domain

* Setting domains

* Editing coded value domains

* Range domains in ArcMap

* Exercise 8: Editing the database schema

 

* Editable data formats

* Navigating the Editor

* Managing edit sessions

* Editing security

* Selecting features

* Simple editing functions

* Sketches

* Sketch context menus

* Modifying the length of a sketch

* Finishing a sketch

* Specifying an angle

* Angles based on other features

* Lengths

* Edit tasks

* Extend/Trim Features task

* Modify Feature task

* Reshape and Cut Feature tasks

* Working with shared features

* Auto Complete Polygon

* Feature creation tools

* Copy Parallel

* Union and Intersect

* Split and Merge

* Editing attribute data for selected features

* Editing tables using the * Field Calculator

* Exercise 9: Editing spatial and attribute data


Database Management
Spatial Analysis Functions

 

* Aggregating spatial data

* Dissolving features

* Clipping features

* The GeoProcessing Wizard

* Exercise 10A: Managing data

* Introducing geometric networks

* Simple network features

* Storing a network

* Building a geometric network

* Network connectivity

* Sources and sinks

* Restricting flow

* Solving network problems

* Exercise 10B: Working with networks

 

* Spatial analysis functions

* Proximity analysis

* Spatial join

* Buffering

* The Buffer Wizard

* Overlay analysis and geoprocessing

* Overlay analysis functions

* Union

* Analysis with Union

* Intersect

* Analysis with Intersect

* The analytical process

* Deciding on project data

* Review analysis tools

* Analysis options

* Exercise 11A: Conducting a pilot study (assisted)

* Exercise 11B: Conducting a pilot study (independent)





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