ArcGIS: ArcMap Data View

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ArcGIS ArcMap Data View
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Agenda

• The ArcMap Interface
• Working with Data
• Review data types/available data
• Opening Data
• Viewing Data
• Navigating
• Exercise 1
• Window Menu Tools
• Display Properties
• Exercise 2
• Querying Data
• Exercise 3
• Data Frames
• Exercise 4
• Basic Editing
• Create new feature
• Edit toolbar
• Exercise 5

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The ArcMap Interface
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Toolbars

• Standard Toolbar Contains tools to navigate
  directories, cut and paste, undo/redo, and Add
  Data among other things
• Tools Toolbar Contains tools for navigating in
  the View canvas as well as finding, identifying,
  and measuring distances within it.
• Draw Toolbar Almost identical to the drawing
  toolbars available in most windows applications.
  Provides tools for adding graphics and text to
  the view window

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Table of Contents

• Shows what layers are on the map
• Shows how layers are displayed on the map
• Shows how data is organized into data frames
• Many commands available from context menus in
  the Table of Contents.
• Display and Source Tabs

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Map Display

• Data View
• Use for browsing and analyzing geographic data
• Focus on geographic elements
• Layout View
• Use to prepare a presentation quality map
• Focus on cartographic elements

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Working with Data

• Review data types/available data
• Opening Data
• Viewing Data
• Navigating
• Window Menu Tools
• Display Properties
• Querying Data
• Data Frames

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Data Types for ArcGIS

• Vector Data
• ArcView Shapefiles
• ArcInfo Coverages
• Geodatabase
• CAD drawings
• Raster Data
• Most common imagery formats can be read
• ArcInfo GRIDs, MRSID

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Available Data

• Data in AFS
• J\isis\data\gis\esri
• Several Data sets
• ESRI Data and Maps
• Digital Chart of the World
• ArcUSA
• ArcWorld
• StreetMap Data
• Geography Network
• See http//www.geographynetwork.com for a full
  listing of data resources

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Opening Data

• Add Data
• Standard Toolbar button
• File Menu Option
• Use to open raw data files (shapefiles,
  coverages, etc.) and Layer Files (.lyr)
• ArcCatalog
• Drag and Drop data from ArcCatalog to ArcMap
• Open Map Document
• Previously organized data sets can be stored as
  Map Documents.
• Open in ArcMap using Open in Standard Toolbar
  or File Menu
• Drag to ArcMap from ArcCatalog

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Viewing Data

• Turning Layers On/off
• Click box next to Layer name in Table of contents
  to toggle layer on/off
• Hold control key to toggle all layers
• Show/Hide Legend
• Click on the minus box next to the layer name in
  the Table of Contents to hide the legend
• Managing drawing order - default, etc
• Items on the bottom of the Table of Contents draw
  first, those at the top draw last
• Click on a layer name and drag it up or down to
  change its position in the drawing order

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Navigating

• Tools Toolbar
• Zoom In/Out/Full Extent
• Pan
• Previous/Next Extent
• Menu bar and context menu tools
• View MenugtZoom Data
• Right-Click on Layer in TOCgtZoom to Layer

Ex.1
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Window Menu Tools

• Overview
• Opens a window showing extent of all data in TOC
• Move and resize Area of Interest in Overview to
  change what is displayed in the Data View
• Right click on the top bar of the Overview window
  to change Overview window properties
• Magnifier
• Opens a new window that you can drag over Map
  Display to enlarge features
• Right click on the top bar of the Magnify window
  to change Magnify window properties

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Display Properties

• Access Layer Properties by double clicking on the
  layer in the Table of Contents
• Change Layer Symbology
• Click On the Symbology tab in the Layer
  Properties Dialog
• Select the type of Symbology to use from the
  Show Dialog
• Single symbol is used to draw all features in a
  layer with the same symbol type
• Categorical Data may be drawn using unique value
  Symbols
• Quantitative data is often drawn using Graduated
  Color Symbols

Ex.2
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Querying Data

• Identify Tool
• With the identify tool you can click on a point
  in the map display to see the attributes of all
  features at that point.
• Change the Layers in the identify results
  dialog to focus on information for a specific
  layer
• Selection Tools
• The select tool on the tools toolbar allows you
  to click on a feature to select it. Selected
  features are outlined in blue
• The selection menu offers several other selection
  tools including a select by attributes option and
  a tool for setting selectable layers.
• Find Tool
• The find dialog in the edit menu offers several
  tools for finding specific features
• Right click on results for shortcuts to common
  tools such as Zoom to Feature, Identify feature,
  and select feature.

Ex.3
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Data Frames

• A map Document only has a single View window. If
  you want to work with multiple data sets, you can
  create additional Data frames.
• Data frames can be used to organize items in data
  view, and become even more important when using
  layout view
• Properties affecting all layers in a view window
  such as Projection can be set at the data frame
  level
• New Data Frames can be created from the Insert
  Menu
• To make a data frame active, right click on it in
  the Table of Contents and click on Activate

Ex.4
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Basic Editing
Shortcut to editor toolbar

• Create new feature
• Not available in ArcMap. You must create new
  feature in ArcCatalog
• In ArcCatalog, right click on a directory and
  select NewgtShapefile
• Editor toolbar
• Select from ViewgtToolbars, or use the shortcut
  button on the Standard toolbar to open the edit
  toolbar
• Several editing tools become available when you
  start editing from the editor menu.
• Begin a new shape using the Create New Feature
  tool.
• Modify a shape using the Edit tool
• Special editing functions available by
  right-clicking on the map display when using
  either the Edit or Create new feature tools
• Change the editing task with the task menu
• Edit a different data set by selecting a new
  Target item

Editor toolbar
Ex.5