Transcript ArcMap interface (ppt)

GIS Data Models
Components of a GIS Map
Common Data Models
The ArcGIS Interface
Menu bar
Context menu
More toolbars
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Tool bars
Tear-off/dock
Display window
ArcMap
Title bar
Menu bar
Standard toolbar
Tools toolbar
Layers
Data
frames
Display Area
Drawing toolbar
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The Tools toolbar
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Zooming and panning
Full extent
Pointer tool
Identify attributes of
features
Find text in attributes
Measure distances
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Context menus
Right-click
name
Left-click
symbol
Right-click
symbol
Menus pop up when
certain objects are
clicked
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What is a layer?
• Spatial data file
and its
associated
properties
• Held in memory
in ArcMap
• Used as inputs to
functions/tools
• May be saved as
a file
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Components of a GIS Map
•GIS maps have layers
–You can have as many
layers as necessary
–Each layer can
represent a feature,
i.e.: cities, rivers, lakes,
countries, etc.
Homes
School Districts
Streets
Zip Codes
Cities
Counties
Layer Properties
Property tabs
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Data frames
Boxes containing layers to be viewed
and analyzed together
Data frame
Layer
Data
frames
Active frame
Data frame
View Mode
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Data frames
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The table of contents
Place layers in data frames
Change draw order
Access layer properties
Turn layers on/off
Change symbol properties
Display or Source mode
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Draw
Order
Table of contents mode
Work with selections
Change draw order
Show folders and tables
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Adding data
Connect to Folder
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View Mode
Refresh
Data view
Layout view
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