Introduction to ArcGIS II

Three days

Overview

Extend what you learned in Introduction to ArcGIS I with further exploration of ArcMap and ArcCatalog. 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.

ArcGIS Desktop III: GIS Workflows and Analysis, the ArcGIS 9.3 version of this course, is now available.

Audience

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

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. The course also provides participants with the fundamental ArcGIS knowledge and experience needed to enroll in Building Geodatabases I.

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  -   (Table of Content)

• 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
• Geoprocessing: introduction to the Command Line window and the ModelBuilder interface
• Cartography: Advanced symbology and labeling

• Working with layers and map symbology
  • Creating quantitative displays
  • Choosing a classification method
  • Grouping values into classes
  • Using natural breaks
  • Using quantile and equal interval
  • Using standard deviation
  • Excluding features from a classification
  • Show the ratio between two quantities
  • Showing quantity for point locations
  • Displaying multiple attributes
  • Showing quantity with dot density
  • Symbology
  • Stylesheets
  • Using the Style Manager
  • Creating custom symbols
  • Creating custom lines and markers
  • Using symbol levels for cartographic effects
  • Using layer masks
  • Additional layout techniques
  • Ways to create a map
  • Building templates
  • Changing templates
  • Exporting a map
• Working with labels and annotation
  • Labels versus annotation
  • Labeling Toolbar
  • Accessing Label Properties
  • Point placement
  • Line placement
  • Polygon placement
  • Label locking
  • Label visibility
  • Labeling with an expression
  • Labeling features differently
  • Setting reference scale
  • Creating annotation
  • Storing annotation
  • Annotation toolbar
  • Unplaced annotation
• Displaying locations from tabular data
  • What is geocoding?
  • The geocoding process
  • Creating an address locator in ArcCatalog
  • Field mapping to the address locator style
  • Address locator properties
  • Adding an address locator 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
• Modifying the ArcGIS interface
  • Why modify the interface?
  • Saving and accessing your customizations
  • Introducing the Customize dialog
• Designing a GIS database
  • The database design procedure
  • Assessing needs
  • Conceptual and logical design
  • Determining the data storage format
  • Why the geodatabase?
  • Physical design
  • Database schema
  • Choosing a projection
  • Automation plan
  • Pilot project
  • Metadata: Documenting your data
  • Types of metadata
  • Viewing metadata
  • Editing metadata documentation
  • Setting metadata properties
  • Metadata import and export
• Populating the geodatabase
  • Many spatial data automation options
  • Creating new data
  • Georeferencing your data
  • Spatial reference
  • Coordinate domain
  • Creating new data
  • Creating a new feature class in ArcCatalog
  • Defining feature class properties
  • Setting the spatial reference
  • Creating feature datasets (FDS)
  • Digitizing in ArcMap
  • Converting digital data
  • Importing data into the geodatabase
  • ArcCatalog Simple Data Loader
  • Transferring data from GPS
  • Importing data from the Internet
  • Defining or changing projection
• Setting geodatabase validation rules
  • 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
  • When to use subtypes or a domain?
  • Lesson overview
  • Topology
  • Topology manages spatial integrity
  • Creating a topology
  • Cluster Tolerance
  • Ranks
  • Topology rules
  • Three states of a topology
  • Validating a topology
  • Topology errors and their management
  • The Error Inspector
  • The Fix Topology Error tool
  • Working with geodatabase topology
• Editing spatial and attribute data
  • Editing security
  • The Editor toolbar
  • Sketches
  • Editing attributes
  • Feature creation tools
  • Split and Divide
  • Buffer
  • Copy Parallel
  • Union and Intersect
  • Merge
  • Editing topologies in ArcMap
  • Topology Error Inspector
  • Fix Topology Error tool
  • Coincident geometry
  • Moving coincident geometry
  • Topology Edit Tasks
  • Create polygons from lines
  • Intersecting lines
  • Map topology
  • Topology functional comparison
  • The Map Topology tools
• Spatial adjustment
  • Why use Spatial adjustment?
  • Spatial adjustment
  • Transformation
  • Transformation methods
  • Creating displacement links
  • RMS error
  • Rubbersheeting
  • Edge Snap
  • Attribute transfer
  • Georeferencing Toolbar
  • Aggregating spatial data
• Spatial analysis functions and geoprocessing
  • Dissolving features
  • Clipping features
  • Spatial analysis functions
  • Buffering
  • Finding the nearest feature
  • Overlay analysis
  • Overlay analysis functions
  • Union
  • Intersect
  • Identity
  • Lesson overview
  • The analytical process
  • Analysis options
  • What is geoprocessing?
  • Accessing geoprocessing functionality
  • Executing tools
  • Command Line intellisense
  • Environment settings
  • Introducing the Model Builder
  • Types of models
  • Why use Model Builder?
  • Using Model Builder