• Symbolising a map
• Creating Layouts for Print
• Projections – what to use when
• Classifying data
• Generalising data – not as dull as it sounds but so often omitted
• Vector Tiles vs Raster Tiles
• Thematic mapping
• Labels and Composition
• Label Classes and Advanced Label Settings
• Labels as Symbols – use a value plus colour and transparency to create a thematic map with text
• Mapping terrain in 3D
• Small Multiples – snapshots of a map laid out in a grid
• Fly-through animations
• 2D Animation through time
• Stop-Motion Animations

A fun video as part of the course:

ArcGIS Pro provides tools to efficiently organize, create, and manage data. In this course, learn about some common types of data used for GIS mapping and analysis, and practice adding data to a file geodatabase to support a planned project.

Learning Objectives

Be able to perform the following tasks:

• Create a geodatabase in ArcGIS Pro.
• Create feature classes in ArcGIS Pro by exporting and importing data.
• Create a new, empty feature class in ArcGIS Pro

Data Formats

Vector

Shapefiles and CAD files are two common data formats that define feature and attribute information using a series of files that can be stored within a folder. when importing these into a geodatabase, the format is converted from a shapefile or CAD file into a geodatabase feature class. The feature class contains the same feature and attribute information, but this information is defined within a geodatabase.

Raster

Raster data is often stored in image file formats such as TIFF, JPEG, and NITF. These formats are commonly referred to as raster datasets. These datasets are managed in the geodatabase as a mosaic dataset that references the raster datasets. A mosaic dataset provides more features and functionality to help you manage raster datasets.

Tabular

Tabular data is often stored in Microsoft Excel, text, and CSV file formats. These files usually contain attribute information and locational information, such as x,y coordinates and addresses. Importing these tables into a geodatabase converts the format into a geodatabase table.

Importing data into geodatabase

A variety of data sources were integrating into one geodatabase for analysis. Formats included Shape files and DWG CAD drawings.

Feature Classes

When creating a feature class, the properties must be defined. Feature class properties determine what sort of information can be stored in the feature class and how it will display on a map.

• Geometry type: including points, polylines, or polygons
• Template Feature Class: defines the features attributes based on the attribute table of an existing class feature
• Has M or Z: the Has M property determines whether features will contain linear measurement information (M Values). The Has Z property is for elevation information (Z Values)
• Coordinate System: defines how the features will be located on the earth and how they will project onto a map.

Certificate

A single dataset may store thousands of records and querying the dataset is a fast way to find features. Learn the building blocks of a query expression and how to select features that meet one or more attribute criteria.

Learning Objectives

Be able to perform the following tasks:

• Construct queries in ArcGIS Pro to select features based on specific attributes.
• Describe common data types that are used to define feature attribute fields.
• Identify the components of an attribute query.
• Construct a query using an attribute field that has text values.
• Construct a query using an attribute field that has numeric values.

Querying data using feature attributes

Most GIS data includes features and an attribute table. The features represent the location of an object on a map. The attribute table provides descriptive information about the features (for example, their size, address, age, and so on). This information is referred to as the attributes of the feature (or data). These attributes are used to search and query the data.

Certificate

Learning Objectives

Be able to perform the following tasks:
* Apply a single symbol to a layer in ArcGIS Pro.
* Apply symbols to a layer in ArcGIS Pro using categorical and quantitative attributes.

Symbolising Qualitative Data

Single Symbols

Use fields within a map layer to change the symbology of a lyer. In this example, the map is symbolised by road type.

Unique Values

When displaying qualitative, categorical values, provide more information at a glance by using unique-value symbology instead of single symbols. Apply unique values to any feature type (point, line, or polygon).

The first step in symbolizing by unique values is to choose an attribute field from which to take the values. The values in this field are commonly text. However, the values might be numbers that represent a category rather than a quantity.

Assign Graduated Color

By changing line weights and colors the map becomes more meaningful.

Certificate

Learning Objectives

• Describe the components of the geodatabase.
• Create geodatabase schema.
• Design and create a geodatabase.

Advantages of using a geodatabase

Types of geodatabase

• File Geodatabase:
  • a collection of GIS datasets stored in a file system folder.
  • work across operating systems and can store individual datasets up to 1 terabyte (TB) in size by default. The size limit can be increased with keywords to 256 TB.
  • support multiple people editing different feature classes or tables at the same time.
  • based on SQL Server Express (.mdf)
• Enterprise geodatabase:
  • support versioning and replication.
  • require a database management system (DBMS), such as DB2, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL.
  • typically found in larger organizations.
  • support multiple users viewing and editing the GIS database at the same time.

Mosaic Datasets

A mosaic dataset is a data model within a geodatabase that is used to store, manage, view, and query large collections of raster data. It can be a heterogeneous collection of raster datasets (individual images) with multiple formats, sources, data types, resolutions, number of bands, pixel depths, file sizes, and coordinate systems.

Certificate

Goals

• Describe the capabilities of ArcGIS Pro
• Use basic ArcGIS Pro functionality

Software Capabilities

Learning objectives include awareness of:
* 2D and 3D maps
* how to perform spatial analysis
* enhance analysis with Artificial Intelligence and machine learning
* integrating and managing data
* processing imagery
* creating portals to share projects

Projects in ArcGIS Pro

Projects include databases, folders, maps, styles, toolboxes and layouts.
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User Interface

Core features are
* Ribbon
* Tabs
* Groups
* Tool/Buttons
* Views
* Panes

Project – Los Angeles Earthquakes

The project used 2D and 3D imagery to explore the 1994 Southern California earthquake. Final project was published to ArcGIS Online.

Certificate