Table of Contents
Introduction to ArcMap
Tools
Why use ArcMap?
Using Map Documents
What is a Map Document?
The Map Window
The Table of Contents
Toolbars and Menus
Moving around the Map
Data view and layout view
The Table of Contents
Explore the data in your map
Selecting Features
Rendering Data
Drawing a layer using a single symbol
Unique value symbology
Working with Map Documents
Different Data Types
Identify geographic phenomena
Identify computer representation of a phenomena
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Introduction to ArcMap
Topics:
What is ArcMap, Open an existing map, Explore a Map Document, Data view and layout
view, Select features, Simple layer rendering, Getting help.
Toolbars
Toolbars are areas of the application’s interface where you have buttons that
activate various features and functions.
Each toolbar can be made visible (activated) or hidden (deactivated).
Why use ArcMap?
ArcMap is ArcGIS’s desktop application for all map-based tasks. These include
data/map analysis, editing and production of maps.
In ArcMap the user can: visualize data, associate symbols to the data, make selections,
analyse data, create data, present data.
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Open an existing map document
• Click the start button on Window’s taskbar.
• Point to Programs, go to ArcGIS and select ArcMap
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Opening screen of the ArcMap application
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Navigate to the folder where you stored the data set for set
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Selecting and opening your ArcMap document
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A Map Document showing the simplified Nairobi dataset
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Moving around the map
• Zoom in or out
• Pan the display
• Full extents
• Back or forward one display
• Zoom to a layer
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Activating toolbars from the view menu
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Moving around the map
Zoom to a specific map scale
• Zoom in or out
• Pan the display
• Full extents
• Back or forward one display
• Zoom to a layer
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Creating a new bookmark
Naming the new bookmark
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To Manage the Bookmark
•Close
•Zoom To
•Remove
•Remove All
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Data view and layout view
There are two different ways to view your map:
Data view and Layout view.
Data view is used for displaying, exploring, selecting and analysing data. Most of the
time, when modeling geodata with ArcMap you will be using the Data View mode.
Layout view is used to show the map as it would be printed on paper. Besides
displaying the geodata, in the Layout view you can add all the items that complete your
map, like title, legend, text, scale bars, north arrow etc.
There are several ways you can
switch from
Data view to Layout view:
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Opening the Page and Print Setup dialog
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The Page and Print Setup dialog window
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Table of contents
Provides:
•Information on the content of your map
•Symbols used to represent it. Besides providing information,
The Table of Contents provides the means to change:
• the content and representation of your map.
Managing the Layer properties and characteristics
• Right-Click on a layer to show the various options:
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Managing the Layer properties and characteristics
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The Layers property dialog window
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Rearranging the display order of the layers in TOC
• In the Table of Content, click and hold on the name of the layer
• Start dragging towards the top of the TOC.
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Change the color used to display a layer
The Symbol Selector
Clicking on the symbol
dialog window
to access the Symbol Selector
dialog window
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Adding a layer to the map Add Data
Adding data to the map
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Remove a data layer from your Map
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Finding Information on specific features
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Change the focus of the Identify tool
In the Identify Results window, using the Layers dropdown list,
you can change the layer which will get the focus of your enquiry.
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Open Attributes of the table
In the TOC, right-click on a layer to show the Options menu and
click Open Attribute Table. The attribute Table Table of the layer opens
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Selecting Features
Why do you need a selection?
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Use to select
Other features
Focused
analysis Create a
New layer
Selected
features Convert to
Edit
graphics
Calculate
Report Export
statistics
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Available selection tools
• Interactive, attributes, location, graphics
Selected set
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Selection layers
• Specify from selection menu
– Layer to select from using interactive selection tools
Method 1
Method 2
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Selecting features through the attribute table
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Rendering Data - Layer symbology in ArcMap
When you add a layer to a map, ArcMap by default draws all its features with the same
symbol automatically selected by the software. You may want to change the symbols
used to display your data to make it more understandable.
•Open the Layer Properties dialog box for one of the layers
•In the Layer properties window, click the Symbology tab
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Layer symbology in ArcMap
•Same symbol for all features
1
•Based on attribute values
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Changing symbol properties
• Symbology tab or table of
contents
Left-click
Right-click
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Displaying qualitative values
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Displaying quantitative values
• Quantities
• Charts
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Working with map documents (.MXD)
Map Documents contain the links to the geodata sets plus all of the information
needed to represent them.
When you make changes to your document during an ArcMap session, most of
the times you change the representation of the data.
You can keep the changes you have made for future use by saving the Map
Document. This will overwrite the original settings in the document with the new
ones.
Alternatively you may want to save your new representation of the data without
losing the previous settings. You can save your changes in a new Map
Document.
•From the File menu, select Save as
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Different data types
The ArcMap document (Data types.mxd)
opened contains data layers representing
4 geographic phenomena: trignomentric
points, administrative boundaries,
water bodies, land cover and a grid.
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Exercise 2 - ArcMap
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