1. Learning the Basics of ArcMap 3.3 Updated 4/27/2010 Using Arc/View pt. 1 1

2. Tools used in Week 3 1. Starting ArcMap 2. Data View window & Table of Contents (TOC) 3. Loading Layers of Data(also called Themes or Shape files) into TOC 4. Zooming & Panning 5. Adjusting Colors for Lines 6. Layout window: Title, Legend, North Arrow, Metadata 7.Adjusting colors for polygons 8.Order for printing Using Arc/View pt. 1 2

4. 1. Starting Arc Map

5. Accept Default of Empty Map

7. This window is called the Table of Contents (TOC) Where your data layers are accessed This is the Data View Window where you cartographic results will appear

8. Roles of Table of Contents

10. Top Tool Bar & Menu Tabs Middle Tool Bar Bottom Tool Bar

11. Adding Data to your GIS project: With Layers (Data Frame) highlighted click on Black Cross to Add Data This window is called the Table of Contents (TOC) Where your data layers are accessed This is the Data View Window where you cartographic results will appear

12. We will start with a very, very simple data set on the J drive under j:/Saldata/Envs221 /Data GIS Assignment

13. After navigating to J:/saldata/Envs221/Data GIS assignment using your Shift Key and mouse highlight the following three data layers (also called shape files): cities, fishhab, & hydr100k Finally hit the Add button

14. Accept the defaults and the data layers will appear in the Table of Contents (TOC) To activate these in your View window you must click the check boxes to turn on the data, the colors that result are random and arbitrary

16. Now we need to learn how to zoom in on the image and change the colors to a combination that makes better sense. Zoom in and out with click and drag capabilities Simple Zoom in and out to image center Pan Full Extent zoom key Experiment with each until you are comfortable

17. Zoom Keys might have been placed on the divider between the data layers and display window or can be accessed by using the right mouse button when in the View window, each may be slightly different we will use the right click ones first.

18. After you have zoomed in and out a bit the following two buttons are also available Go back an extent (one step back) Go forward one extent Experiment with these

19. Sometimes the Tools instead of being between the two windows they will just be “floating” around in the View window

21. Highlight the layer that you want to work with

22. Right click on the layer then scroll down and click on Properties

23. From the Layer Properties window that opens click on the Symbology tab then click on Symbol button

24. This then opens Symbol Selector which has too many choices, but we will only change the color.

25. Change the Hydrology to blue and also set the width to 2, hit OK to close the Symbol Selector

26. Looks nice! But now let’s work on the Fish Habitat layer. Start by highlighting FISHHAB and again go the th symbol selector

27. A faster way to get to the Symbol Selector is to click on the symbol immediately below a file name like FISHHAB

29. 6. We have been working in the “Data View” now move into the “Layout View”

30. This is the Layout View this is where the final output (map) is built

31. From the above menu list we can add details to our map

32. Title in, change its size by adjusting the Font size of the text

33. Building the Legend

34. Legend inserted

35. Putting in Meta data Under Insert tab select Text a box will appear towards the center of your map, at this point start typing Putting in Meta data Under Insert tab select Text a box will appear towards the center of your map, at this point start typing

36. Double click in this box to open a text window to type correct data and set font size and style

38. Moving Back into the Data View

39. Data View

41. Using the mouse buttons we are going to adjust our cities display, click on Properties

42. Highlight CITIES and open Properties

43. Right now we have a Single symbol for all cities we will change this

44. Click on Categories then Unique value

45. In the Value Field pick window scroll through the attributes to JURISDICT

46. Then turn off the (all other values) and click Add All Values

47. Click OK

48. Looks Good each city has a separate and Unique Color

49. Now let’s return to the Properties and see how to make things transparent

50. Again make sure that you have Unique Value & JURISDICT, unselect (all other values), Click on APPLY to make sure all is as it should be then choose the Display Tab

51. Again make sure that you have Unique Value & JURISDICT, and unselect (all other values), Click on APPLY to make sure all is as it should be then choose the Display Tab

52. Under the Display tab find the Transparent window. Currently it is 0% or no transparency. We will change this to 50%

53. Make the change then click OK

54. RESULT

55. Now move CITIES to the top of the TOC so it draws first and notice how we can “see through” the cities boundaries – however this still needs some more work

56. Some results on the final Layout Map

57. Now lets add some Labels or Names. Under the Lables tab Click on “label features in this layer” Now lets add some Labels or Names. Under the Lables tab Click on “label features in this layer”

59. The jurisdictions labels should appear…