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Introduction to ArcGIS II:

Course Table of Contents

ESRI Authorized Instructor

 

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

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