1. Lab 1 Introduction to ArcGIS Feb 17, 2016
RS & GISc, Institute of Space Technology
Lab 1
Create layer from selected features will only show the selected records and the same source as of original shapefile.

2. ArcGIS Primary components of ArcGIS Desktop ArcMap ArcCatalog
building, editing, and displaying map documents
ArcCatalog
creating, importing, and maintaining map files
ArcToolbox
geoprocessing and spatial analysis tools
Other platforms included in ArcGIS Desktop are ArcScene and ArcGlobe
both enable 3D data viewing and manipulation
ArcGIS has also grown to include mobile applications.

3. What we Cover Today? How to Use ArcCatalog 10x Open and Save document
Work with layers
Navigate in document
Measure distance
Work with feature attributes
Select features
Work with attribute tables
Label features
Map document

4. Tutorial 1-0: How to Use ArcCatalog
Getting Started With ArcCatalog
What is ArcCatalog
ArcCatalog Window
Contents of the selected item on Catalog Tree
Catalog Tree
Together ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcScene, and ArcGlobe make up ArcGIS Desktop--- World’s most popular GIS software.
ArcCatalog is a GIS application that allows you to manage (find, preview, document and organize) your spatial data. It is similar to Window Explorer that let you browse the map data, and add data to ArcMap with ArcCatalog.

5. Starting Arc Catalog Click on the Start menu Click on ArcGIS
Click on ArcCatalog
contents, preview and metadata: These three tabs allow you to view more information about the files.
Content: lists the items contained by the selected item in the Catalog tree.
Preview: lets you see the geographic or attribute data it contains.
The Metadata tab lets you see documentation describing the item’s contents.

6. Connecting to a Folder
On the toolbar menu click the ‘Connect to Folder’ button
Navigate to a folder where your data is saved
Click the folder you would like to connect
This connection will remain there until it is disconnected
In the above exercise you have to browse through map data by navigating deep into folders on the catalog. There is an easier way to navigate through folders to locate the required data by creating connections.

7. Tutorial 1-1: Open and Save a Map Document
Launch ArcMap
Open an Existing Map Document
Save the map document to a new location
Familiarize with the Tools
MyExercises\Chapter1\Tutorial1-1.mxd
Open ArcMap either from Start menu or through ArcCatalog .
The ArcMap interface includes a map and a table of contents that lists the map’s layers.

8. Summary of Toolbars Main Menu
Open other menu buttons as well and explore their content.

9. Customize
OR Right click on space where tool bars are docked.

10. Some Important Toolbars
Draw
Editor
Standard
Tools

11. Tutorial 1-2: Work with Map Layers
Question: Before GIS, how mapmakers used to manage Map layers?
Clear Plastic sheets and then stacked the sheets to make a map composition. Scale of all layers in that case must be same to stack.

12. Tutorial 1-2: Work with Map Layers
Turn a Layer on and off
Add and remove map layers
Save map sing Relative Paths
Drag and Drop a layer from the Catalog Window
Change a layer’s display order
Change a layer’s color
Change a layer’s outline color
ArcMap displays map layers from a map document but the map document does not contain copies of the map layers. The map layer files remain external to the map document wherever they exist on computer storage media.
TOC : Map layers
Relative Path: When you add a layer to a map, ArcMap stores the paths in the map document. When you open a map, ArcMap locates the layer data using these stored paths. If ArcMap cannot find the data for a layer, the layer will still appear in the TOC, but not in map. Instead, ArcMap places a red exclamation mark (!) next to the layer name to indicate that this path needs repair.
Paths can be absolute or relative. Relative paths in a map specify the location of the layers relative to the current location on disk of the map document (.mxd file). Relative paths do not contain drive letter names, they enable the map and its associated data to point to the same directory structure regardless of the drive or folder in which the map resides.

13. Tutorial 1-3: Navigate in the Map Document
Zoom in
Fixed Zoom In and Zoom Out
Pan
Full, Previous and Next Extent
Open the Magnifier Window
Magnifier Properties
Use the Overview Window
Create Spatial Bookmarks

14. Your Turn
Add COLORADO COStreets.shp (C:\ESRIPress\GIST1\Data\UnitedStates.gdb)
Zoom in for a closer look of street data
Change the color of Streets layer
Create Spatial bookmarks for the States of California, New York, and Texas
Remove California bookmark

15. Tutorial 1-4: Measure Distance
Change measurement units
Measure the width of Washington State

16. Your Turn
Measure the north – south distance (top to bottom) of State of Washington
Measure the north – south distance of the continental United States from the southern tip of Texas to northern edge of North Dakota
Measure the east – west distance of the continental United States from the Washington to Maine
The Distance in Q1 is roughly ___________miles
The Distance in Q2 is roughly ___________miles
The Distance in Q3 is roughly ___________miles
Answers:
1: 250 miles
2: 1,600 miles
3: 2,500 miles

17. Tutorial 1-5: Work with Feature Attributes
Use the Identify Tool
Use Advance Identify tool capabilities
Find Features

18. Your Turn
Restrict the identify results to COCounties layer and identify Colorado counties
Make bookmarks for various counties using Identify tools

19. Tutorial 1-6: Select Features
Use the Select Features tool
Change the selection color and clear a selection
Change selection symbol
Set selectable layers
Select by Graphic

20. Your Turn
Create a new layer from selected features by selecting multiple counties in Colorado
After selection, right click the US Cities layer in the TOC and click Selection and then Create Layer from Selected Features
Name the new layer
Clear the selected features

21. Tutorial 1-7: Work with Attribute Tables
Open the attribute table
Select a record
Select feature on map and see selected records
Show selected records
Switch Selection
Clear Selection
Move a Field
Sort a Field, Advance Sorting
Get Statistics

22. Your Turn Open attribute table of Counties layer
Sort field POP2000 in descending order
Get statistics of 10 top records of sorted field POP2000
Min = __________________
Max = __________________
Mean = __________________
Standard Deviation = __________________

23. Tutorial 1-8: Label Features
Set Label Properties
Label Features
Turn Labels off
Convert Labels to Annotation
Edit a Label Graphic
Labels are text items on maps
Derived from one or more feature attributes

24. Assignment 1-1
Evaluate U.S. Housing Statistics