1. Importing your Own Data To display in GIS Lab 4b: (geocoding) Mapping data by street within the US

2. 1. Open Arc Map, then Add Data

3. Select an appropriate map from the G drive Arc GIS

4. Tools, Geocoding, Address Locator Manager…Add

5. G, ArcGIS, Streetmap_usa, Streets,

6. StreetMap Plus Alt names, Add …close

7. Tools, Geocoding, Geocode Addresses

8. Click folder by address table, browse for your list of addresses, which must be saved as a dbf 4 file in the following format…

10. Line up address info with drop down boxes, OK

11. Watch and wait a while as it Geocodes Addresses

12. Review report of percent matched, if not enough, edit and clean up your data and re-do

16. To access NYS Political Maps from Web website has a query application for downloading GIS files. They're available in ESRI, MapInfo, and Maptitude formats so you can select what works best. Go to: http://www.empire.state.ny.us/nysdc/download_intro.asp Select the first link "Download Census and Geographic Files" In Step 1, select "Statewide" since the Assembly and Senate district files are only available as statewide layers. In Step 2, scroll through the list to the bottom and select "NY State Assembly Districts" In Step 3, select the Geographic Data button and another box will open to select the file format, make your selection and then hit "Submit" You'll be prompted with a new screen and the file will be a download link. Download the file then go back and select the senate districts.

17. Open Arc Map, Select New Empty Map

18. Rt Click on layers, Add Data

19. Open senate or assembly folder in course folder, then pick shape file within it