1. Introduction to ArcGIS
CORSE 2007
Introduction to ArcGIS
Advanced Track
Lesson 1
9/17/2018

2. What’s Happening…
Going to go over the differences between ArcView 3.x and ArcGIS
Introduce a new data container called a GeoDatabase
Then you are going to…
Download an ESRI on-line course
Download the data for that course
Do two of the exercises in that course

3. Objectives of Ex 1 Familiarize you with the ESRI on-line courses
Familiarize you with the differences between ArcView 3.x and ArcGIS

4. The Challenge You know how to use ArcView 3x
The world is going to ArcGIS, now in version 9.2
ArcGIS can do everything ArcView 3x could do …
And MUCH MORE!
The price you pay is complexity
Which is not necessarily good from your point of view

5. Two basic things… There is no such thing as an Active Theme!
All layers are active unless turned off
When in doubt, Right Click!

6. Terminology is Different
ArcView 3.x
ArcGIS
Documents
Project (.apr)
Map Document (.mxd)
View
Data frame
Layout
Data
Theme
Layer*
Grid
Raster
Image
Projection
Coordinate System

7. Terminology is Different
ArcView 3.x
ArcGIS
Functions
Query Builder
Select by Attribute
Select by Theme
Select by Location
Table Link
Table relate
*Layer
Has two meanings (1) Like a theme, (2)
Also means a Symbology file like a .avl but has extension .lyr and has no data!

8. In ArcView… You could… Add themes to the view
Change symbology of themes
Re-order the themes in the Table of Contents
Carry out many operations on the themes
Select by attribute or location
Overlay themes to make new themes
Etc.
Make maps from themes

9. And in ArcGIS… You can do the same things in ArcMap!
Let’s compare the old ArcView user interface with the new ArcMap user interface
But first
ArcMap comes in three license levels
ArcView
ArcEditor
ArcInfo
More Power – more $

10. Table of Contents (TOC)
AV3x User Interface
Button Bar
Menu Bar
Tool Bar
Theme
View Window
Shape-file
Table of Contents (TOC)
ProjectWindow

11. ArcGIS in General… Can do the same kinds of things as ArcView
The interface is different and the terms used are different
Two things to remember
No such thing as the “Active Theme”
When in doubt, Right click

12. X And in ArcGIS9x Menu Bar Button Bar Data frame
Tool bars; can be moved around
Data View
Shape-file
Table of Contents (TOC)

13. Many Tool Bars; And toolboxes Data or Map mode Toolbars and RT CLICK
Extensions
Many Tool Bars;
RT CLICK
CLICK
And toolboxes
This is a complex slide. The most important part is the connection between the list of extensions and tool bar names and the actual tool bars. This is sometimes because you will find ArcGIS opens without one of the standard tool bars and you have no idea what it is called! This provides a key.
Data or Map mode

14. Basic Tools etc. Open Toolbox Add data Open Catalog Zoom in Find Info
Arc Length
Remember the tool tip lower left
Add data
Zoom in
Zoom out
Zoom to full Extent
Pan
Select Feature

15. Layout view The Layout view is where you make maps
It is very easy to go back and forth between the Data and Layout views

16. Data Management
When you moved data in ArcView3x you had to be sure that you got all the shapefile files
Pain!
So ESRI provided a second software called ArcCatalog
In ArcCatalog you can copy and paste data without having to worry about missing some of the files

17. In ArcCatalog you can…. Manage data Preview data View Metadata
Geography
Attribute table
View Metadata
When you find the data you want you can just drag it into ArcGIS!!!

18. ArcCatalog

19. Loading data Data can be And can be either stand-alone data …
Shapefiles – even ArcView 3 shapes
Various kind of images
Rasters
Coverage (older file type)
And can be either stand-alone data …
Or be in a new container called a GeoDatabase (GDB)

20. GDB
GDB
Feature data set (FDS)
Feature Class (FC)
ShapeFile in a GDB

21. ESRI ArcGIS File Symbols
GDB
Feature Data Set
Point
Line
Poly
Raster
Relate
Datafile
Text file
Shape files
Point
Line
Poly
Raster
Coverages
Arc
.mxd
=.avl

22. GDB GDBs are not hard to use They are hard to build
You can drag them around in Windows Explore with impunity
More and more data is delivered in GDB
Consider GDBs and FDSs to be folders

23. Views of data in Catalog
The Contents View
Name
Type
Symbol

24. Views of data in Catalog
Preview of Geometry

25. Views of data in Catalog
Preview of Attribute table

26. Views of data in Catalog
Metadata
Description
Spatial data
Projection
Datum
Linear unit
Attributes

27. The Right Click Trick
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28. The Right Click Trick
click

29. The Right Click Trick
click
click
click
click

30. Other Advantages of ArcGIS
Project on the fly
That means you don’t have to mess with projections and datums!
But only works if there is a .prj file
Automatic ordering of data in the TOC
Points at top, lines in middle, polys at bottom
Right Clicking!
Properties

31. Booby Traps
Never, Ever have a space anywhere in a path to ArcGIS data or project!!!!
Use “_” as a spacer not “-” X
C:\My Documents\Good-Stuff\.... OK
C:\My_Documents\Good_Stuff\....

32. Exercise 1 Your have 2 documents Demo of Print out of the course
A document describing how to download and store data
Demo of
accessing ESRI’s virtual campus
Downloading a course
Downloading the data for a course
Doing two exercises
#2 and #3