Using ArcMap
™
Michael Minami
GIS by ESRI
™
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DATA CREDITS
Quick-Start Tutorial Data: Wilson, North Carolina.
Population DensityConterminous United States Map: U.S. Department of Census.
The African Landscape Map: Major Habitat TypesConservation Science Program, WWF-US; RainfallArcAtlas
, ESRI, Redlands, California;
Population data from EROS Data Center USGS/UNEP.
Amazonia Map: Conservation International.
Forest Buffer Zone100 Meters Map: U.S. Forest Service (Tongass Region).
Horn of Africa Map: Basemap data from ArcWorld
(1:3M), ESRI, Redlands, California; DEM and Hillshade from EROS Data Center USGS/UNEP.
Mexico Population Density Map: ESRI Data & Maps CDs, ESRI, Redlands, California.
Health Care in the United States Map: Population data from U.S. Department of Census; Health Service Areas from the trustees of Dartmouth College;
Service Providers data from Healthcare Financing Administration.
Clark County Land Use Map: Clark County Office, Washington State.
Southeast Asia Population Distribution Map: ArcWorld (1:3M), ESRI, Redlands, California.
Global 200Worlds Biologically Outstanding Ecoregions Map: Ecoregions data from Conservation Science Program, WWF-US; Country boundaries
from ArcWorld (1:3M), ESRI, Redlands, California.
Australia Map: Major Habitat Types data from Conservation Science Program, WWF-US; Basemap from ArcWorld (1:3M), ESRI, Redlands, California.
New Hampshire Telecom Map: Geographic Data Technology, Inc.
Redlands Image: Courtesy of Emerge, a division of TASC.
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Alan Hatakeyama, Andy Mitchell, Bob Booth, Bruce Payne, Cory Eicher, Eleanor Blades, Ian Sims, Jonathan Bailey, Pat Brennan, and Sandy Stephens.
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Contents
Getting started
1 Welcome to ArcMap 3
Visualizing information 4
Working geographically 5
Showing relationships 6
Solving problems 7
Creating and updating data 8
Presenting results 9
Developing mapping applications 10
Tips on learning ArcMap 11
2 Quick-start tutorial 13
Exercise 1: Exploring your data 14
Exercise 2: Working with geographic features 28
Exercise 3: Working with tables 42
Exercise 4: Editing features 51
Exercise 5: Working with map elements 59
3 ArcMap basics 65
Layers, data frames, and the table of contents 66
Starting ArcMap 68
The ArcMap window 70
Opening a map 71
Using the table of contents 73
Looking at a map in data view and layout view 75
Moving around the map 76
Setting bookmarks 79
Opening magnifier and overview windows 82
Exploring data on a map 83
Getting help 86
Saving a map and exiting ArcMap 89
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Displaying data
4 Creating maps 93
Creating a new map 94
Adding layers 96
Adding coverages, shapefiles, and geodatabases 98
Adding data from the Internet 100
Adding TINs as surfaces 102
Adding CAD drawings 103
Adding x,y coordinate data 105
Adding route events 106
About coordinate systems 107
Specifying a coordinate system 109
Referencing data on the map 113
5 Managing layers 115
Changing a layers text description 116
Changing a layers drawing order 117
Copying layers 118
Removing layers from the map 119
Grouping layers 120
Accessing layer properties 123
Displaying a layer at certain scales 124
Changing the appearance of the table of contents 126
Using data frames to organize layers 128
Saving a layer to disk 130
Repairing broken data links 131
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6 Symbolizing your data 133
A map gallery 134
Drawing all features with one symbol 139
Drawing features to show categories like names or types 140
Managing categories 143
Ways to map quantitative data 145
Standard classification schemes 146
Drawing features to show quantities like counts or amounts 148
Setting a classification 153
Drawing features to show multiple attributes 156
Drawing features with charts 157
Drawing TINs as surfaces 160
Drawing CAD layers 162
Advanced symbolization 164
7 Labeling maps with text and graphics 167
Drawing points, lines, and circles 168
Adding text 172
Selecting graphics 174
Moving, rotating, and ordering graphics 175
Aligning, distributing, and grouping graphics 178
Joining graphics 180
About labeling 181
Displaying labels 184
Specifying the text of labels 187
Prioritizing and positioning labels 189
Printing a map with labels 192
Feature-linked annotation 194
Map tips and hyperlinks 196
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