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

1. Open Arc Map, then Add Data

Select an appropriate map from the G drive Arc GIS

Tools, Geocoding, Address Locator Manager…Add

G, ArcGIS, Streetmap_usa, Streets,

StreetMap Plus Alt names, Add …close

Tools, Geocoding, Geocode Addresses

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

Line up address info with drop down boxes, OK

Watch and wait a while as it Geocodes Addresses

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

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: 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.

Open Arc Map, Select New Empty Map

Rt Click on layers, Add Data

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