ARCMAP TUTORIAL

ArcMap Tutorial

IN THIS TUTORIAL
The best way to learn ArcMap is to try it
• Exercise 1: Exploring your data
yourself. This tutorial guides you through some
• Exercise 2: Working with geographic
basic ArcMap skills as you create and print a
features
set of maps for Lombok island that is planning
• Exercise 3: Working with tables
to manage its tourism area.
• Exercise 4: Editing features
Tourism area of the Lombok Island have
• Exercise 5: Working with map elements
identified several issues they are concerned
about. These include flood affecting from river
and hotel near the port and increased traffic
along major roads. In this tutorial, you’ll first
create and print a map showing hotel in the
tourism area. Then you’ll place this map-along
with two other maps that show land use
surrounding the lombok island a wall-sized
poster for display.
In the tutorial, you’ll learn how to
• Display map features.
• Add data to your map.
• Edit geographic data.
• Work with data tables.
• Query and select geographic features.
• Lay out and print a map.
There are five exercises. Each exercise takes
between 30 and 45 minutes to complete. You
can work through the entire tutorial or
complete each lesson one at a time.

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Exercise 1: Exploring your data

In this exercise, you’ll create a map showing 1. Double-click Browse for maps. If this is not
locations of hotel in tourism area, in landzone the first time ArcMap has been started and the
area. Near from road, coastal area and startup dialog box does not appear, click File
beautiful coral. on the main menu and click Open.
The exercises use the tutorial data distributed
with ArcGIS® Desktop. The default installation
location of the data is D:\Training
Material\Data\. The exercises require that you
have write access to this data. If you don’t,
you’ll need to copy the data to a location that
you do have write access to.

Starting ArcMap
ArcMap lets you explore your geographic data
and create maps for display. 2. On the Open dialog box, click the Look in
1. Click the Start button on the Windows® drop-down arrow and navigate to the Map
taskbar. folder on the local drive where you installed
2. Point to Programs. the tutorial data (D:\Training Material\Data\).
3. Point to ArcGIS. 3. Double-click Lombok.mxd. ArcMap opens
4. Click ArcMap. the map.

Opening an existing map document

ArcMap stores a map as a map document
The first time you start ArcMap, the startup
(.mxd) so you can redisplay it, modify it, or
dialog box appears. The startup dialog box
share it with other ArcMap users. The map
offers you several options for starting your
document doesn’t store the actual data but
ArcMap session. For this exercise, you want to
rather, references the data stored on disk
open an existing map document.
along with information about how it should be
displayed. The map document also stores
other information about the map, such as its

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size and the map elements it includes (title, 1. Using the Zoom In tool, draw a box around
scale bar, and so on). the island to zoom in. Place the pointer on the
To the left of the ArcMap display window is upper-left part of the contour, click the mouse
the table of contents, showing you which button, and hold it down while dragging to the
geographic layers are available to display. To lower right. You’ll see the box drawn on the
the right is the map display area. screen. When you release the mouse button,
ArcMap zooms in to the area defined by the
Table of content box.

Map display area

This particular map contains the following

2. If necessary, use the Pan tool (the hand) on
layers in the Lombok data frame:
the Tools toolbar to reposition the map so the
Island Coastline of Lombok island
noise contour is in the center of the display
Jalan Road of Lombok island
area (hold the mouse button down while
River River of Lombok island
dragging in the direction you want to move the
features, then release the button).
The map currently displays the river, road and
island boundary. Their boxes are checked in
Displaying a layer
the table of contents.
The table of contents lets you turn layers on
and off in the display. To display a layer,
Moving around the map
check the box next to its name.
The Tools toolbar lets you move around the
To turn it off, uncheck it. Display the island
map and query the features on the map. Place
and river by checking their boxes in the table
your pointer over each icon (without clicking)
of contents.
to see a description of each tool.

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Changing the display symbol Properties from the menu that appears, and

ArcMap lets you change the colors and symbols clicking the Symbology tab. To simply change

you use to display features. You’ll change the the color of a symbol, right-click the symbol in

color for island from blue to green. If you have the table of contents to display the color

point data you can change data symbol to a palette.

standard symbol used for their icon on many

maps.
1. Click the color symbol in the table of
contents to display the color Selector dialog
box.

Identifying a feature
There is one school that may be within the
noise contour around the airport.
1. Using the Zoom In tool, draw a box around
the river to zoom in.
You can see that the river polygon.
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2. Click the Identify tool on the Tools toolbar.
The Identify window appears.

2. Scroll down until you find the color you

need and click it.

3. Move the mouse pointer over the river and

click. The identify of the river attribute is
listed in the Identify window. Notice that only
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the features in the topmost layer are
identified. You can also identify features in
other layers by choosing the specific layers you
want to identify by clicking the Identify from:
3 drop- down arrow in the dialog box.

3. Click OK. Close the Identify window.

The color are drawn with the new color.

You can also open the Symbol Selector dialog 4. Click the Back button on the Tools toolbar

box by right- clicking the layer name, choosing to return to your previous view.

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Exercise 2: Working with
geographic features
In this exercise, you’ll map the amount of Displaying features by category
each landzon type within the different class By default, all the lanzon are drawn using the
color. You’ll add data to your map, draw same symbol when you add them. You can also
features based on an attribute, select specific draw them based on an attribute. In this case,
features, and summarize them in a graph. type of landzone.
1. Add lanzon data by klik File menu and add
Copying a layer data
You’ll want to display the new data view with
the landzone area. You can copy them from
the Lombok data frame. First, switch back to
data view.
1. Click the Insert menu and click Data Frame.
Now you’re looking at only the area covered
by the landzone data frame.

2. Right-click lanzon in the table of contents

and click Properties.

2. In the table of contents , right-click the

river layer under the Lombok data frame and
click Copy.
The Layer Properties dialog box appears.
3. Click the Symbology tab. All lanzon are
currently drawn using the same symbol (the
same solid fill color).

3. Right-click the Landzone data frame and

click Paste Layer(s).

4. Copy and paste the river layer the same way.

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3. Click Categories in the Show box. Unique The Select By Location dialog box guides you
values is automatically highlighted. through creating a geographic query.
4. Click the Value Field drop-down arrow and 2. In the first box, click the drop-down arrow
click ZONE as the field to use to shade the and click select features from.
lanzon. 3. In the second box, check lanzon as the layer
5. Click Add All Values. A unique color is to select features from.
assigned to each lanzone type. 4. Click the drop-down arrow for the third box
and click intersect. This will select those
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features in lanzon that intersect the features
of river.
5. In the last box, click the drop-down arrow
and click river as the layer to select by.
6. Click Apply. The selected lanzon are
outlined with a thick line.

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6. Click OK. The lanzon are now drawn based

on their landzone type.

7. Close the Select By Location dialog box.

Notice that any lanzon even partially inside
Selecting features geographically
the river is included.
To find out how much of each land zone is
within the different zone, select only those
lanzon within the zone.
1. Click Selection on the main menu and click
Select By Location.

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Exporting a layer
To find out how many lanzon and how much
zone area of each land-zone type are within
the noise contour, you’ll create a new feature
class and run statistics on its data table.
1. Right-click lanzon in the table of contents,
point to Data, then click Export Data.
7. The new layer is displayed on top of the
other layers. To see, click lanzon_sel in the
table of contents and drag it down until the
bar is above lanzon. Then release the mouse
button.

2. On the Export Data dialog box, click the

Export drop-down arrow and click Selected
features (to export only the selected lanzon).
3. Save the selected features in the landzone
geodatabase as a feature class called
lanzon_sel. Type the path as shown below,
substituting the installation location of the
Creating summary statistics
tutorial data on your system. ArcMap includes tools for statistical analysis.
You’ll create a table to summarize the number
of lanzon of each lanzone type within the
noise contour and the total area of each type.
1. In the table of contents, right-click the
lanzon_sel layer and click Open Attribute
Table.

4. Click OK. ArcMap exports the lanzon to a

new feature class in the lanzon geodatabase.
5. Click Yes when prompted to add the
exported data as a new layer on the map. The 2. Right-click the ZONE field header and click
new layer contains only the selected lanzon. Summarize.
6. Click the Clear Selected Features button on
the Tools toolbar.

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Opening a table
You may have noticed that when the table is
added to the map, the table of contents
switches from the Display tab to the Source
tab (at the bottom of the table of contents).
The Source tab shows the location of all data
in the table of contents; this is useful when
editing data in ArcMap because it shows you
3. Make sure the field to summarize is ZONE.
which layers are in the same workspace.
4. Click the plus sign next to Shape_Area to
(When you edit in ArcMap, you edit an entire
expand it.
workspace; that is, all the layers in the
Check Sum to summarize the area by land-
workspace are available for editing.) The
zone type.
Source tab also lists all tables.
5. Create the output table in your geodatabase
Tables don’t show up when the Display tab is
and name it sum_zone.
selected since a table is not a geographic
6. Click OK. ArcMap creates a new table with a
feature that is displayed on the map.
record for each lanzone type showing the
1. Right-click sum_zone in the table of
number of lanzon of that type and the total
contents and click Open. You can see the
land area (in square feet).
number of lanzon and the total area (in square
feet) of each land-zone type.

2. Close the table window.

7. Click Yes when prompted to add the

resulting table to the map. Close the
lanzon_sel attribute table.

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Exercise 3: Working with tables
In this exercise, you’ll map population density
for the county. A population density map
shows where people are concentrated. First,
you’ll add population data for each census
tract. Then you’ll calculate population density
for each tract and map it.

Adding tabular data

You also need to add the table containing the
zone data to your data frame.
1. In ArcMap, click the Add Data button.

Right-click zone in the table of contents and

2. Navigate to the Map folder on the local click Open. The table contains the ZONE field

drive where you installed the tutorial data and the Description of each zone.

(the default installation path is D:\training

material\Data\)
3. Click ZONE (the icon looks like a table).

Close the tables before proceeding with the

join.
2. Right-click lanzon in the table of contents
again, point to Joins and Relates, and click
Join.

4. Click Add. The table is added to the land

zone data frame in the table of contents.
ArcMap activates the Source tab so you can
access the table.

The Join Data dialog box appears.

Joining tables
3. Click the drop-down arrow in the first text
The next step is to join the table containing
box and click Join attributes from a table.
the zone data to the lanzon data table. You’ll
4. Click the drop-down arrow in the next text
do this using the Zone as the common field.
box, scroll down, and click ZONE as the field in
1. Right-click lanzon in the table of contents
the layer to base the join on.
and click Open Attribute Table to see the
existing attributes including the zone field.

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5. Click the drop-down arrow in the next text
box and click Zone as the table to join to the
layer.
6. In the next text box, click ZONE as the field
in the table to base the join on.
7. Click the option for Keep all records, so all
records will be shown in the table.
8. Click OK to join the table to the layer. Click
Yes if you are prompted to create an index.

1. Click the Options button at the bottom of

the Attributes of lanzon_descript table and
click Add Field.

If a message appears indicating the table is in

use by another user, make sure you closed
ArcCatalog.
2. On the Add Field dialog box, type
ZONE_AREA as the field name.
3. Click the Type drop-down arrow and click
Long Integer.
9. Right-click lanzon and click Open Attribute
4. Click OK.
Table. The zone table value has been added to
each zone in lanzon.
10. export your lanzon as lanzon_descript

Adding a field to an attribute table

To lanzon_descript layer, you’ll need to add a
new field to summary the area of
lanzon_descript layer.

You should see the new field added to the

attribute table.

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The field name you entered will be
concatenated with lanzon_descript, to appear
as lanzon_descript.ZONE_AREA.

3.Click OK.
The area of ZONE_AREA will be calculate.

Calculating attribute values

You’ll calculate the ZONE_AREA for each
lanzone_descript by dividing by the area of
each lanzone_descript; this will give you the
area of zone per square mile. To do this,
You’ll use the editing functions of ArcMap to
edit the census tract attributes. You can make
calculations without being in an editing
session; however, in that case, there is no way
to undo the results. (In Exercise 4, you’ll edit
the geometry of a feature.)
1. Right Click the ZONE_AREA filed on the
attribute table and click calculate geometry .

2. Set unit to hectares (ha).

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Exercise 4: Editing features
You can use ArcMap to edit your data as well
as create maps. In this exercise, you’ll extend
the road to create a new road joining an
existing arterial road, make lake layer and city
points.

Digitizing a feature
1. Open arcCatalog
2. Right Click in your geodatabase folder
9. In Editor menu click Start Editing and Click
3. Select New and click Shapefile
the Target drop-down arrow and click
road_new as the feature class in which you
want to create new features.

10. Click the Sketch tool on the Editor toolbar.

11. Click Stop editing in the Editor menu if the

road_new is created.
4. Make your new shapefile Name as Road_new
12. Make Lake layer as polygon and city as
5. Set feature type as Polyline
point
6. Edit spatial reference as
WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_50S
Adding attributes to new features
You can also add the name of the lake.
1. Right Click lake layer and click open
attribute table.
2. Click the Options button at the bottom of
the Attributes of lake table and click Add Field.
3. On the Add Field dialog box, type
LAKE_NAME as the field name.
4. Click the Type drop-down arrow and click
Text.

7. Click OK
8. In your data frame, add Road_New as new
layer 5. Click OK.

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6. Click the Editor menu and click Start Editing.

7. Click the Target drop-down arrow and click

Lake as the feature class in which you want to
add new attributes.

8. Double click the row that you want to fill

with the name of lake

9. Click the Editor menu and click Stop Editing.

Click Yes when prompted to save your edits.

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Exercise 5: Working with map you’re working with the legend (use the tools
on the Layout toolbar).
elements Now you are going to make a few changes to
In this exercise, you’ll be applying what you’ve your legend to make it more attractive and
learned, so you may need to refer to previous easier to understand.
lessons if you can’t remember how to perform 11. Right-click the legend and click Properties.
a certain task. You’ll add map elements to 12. Click the Items tab.
polish the layout and complete your poster. 13. Click lanzon in the Legend Items list, then
Then you’ll print it. click the Style button. This will allow you to
specify how the lanzon legend entry will be set
Adding a background, titles, legends, up.
and scale bars 14. Scroll down and click Horizontal with

1. Switch to layout view if necessary by Heading and Labels. Click OK.

clicking the View menu and clicking Layout 15. Click OK on the Legend Properties dialog

View. box.

2. Click the Lombok data frame on the page to You can edit the text of the labels that appear

select it. in the legend by changing the text in the table

In the table of contents, check the river, jalan, of contents.

city, island, coral, lanzon and lake. 16. Under lanzon, rename the ZONE heading to

3. Right-click the data frame and click ZONE. The legend is automatically updated.

Properties. 17. Use the table of contents to rename the

4. Click the Frame tab. Click the Background other layers in the Land Use data frame that

drop-down arrow and click Yellow. Click OK. appear in the legend. Use the list below as a

5. Click Insert and click Title. guide for the layer names.

6. Type LOMBOK MAP in the text box and press 18. Click Insert and click Scale Bar.

Enter. 19. Click Scale Line 1 and click Properties.

7. Click the text size drop-down arrow on the 20. Click the Scale and Units tab. Check the

Draw toolbar. Show one division before zero box and change

Click 18 to make the title 18 point. the division units to miles. Click OK on all

8. Drag the title onto the Lombok data frame, dialog boxes.

as shown below. 21. Drag the scale bar under the legend, make

9. Click Insert and click Legend. it smaller, and align it with the legend.

The Legend Wizard appears.

10. Click Next several times to step through Printing a map
the wizard, accepting the default legend Your map is finished. You can print it if you
parameters. Click Finish when you’re done. have a printer connected to your computer. If
Drag the legend to the lower-left corner of the your printer doesn’t print the full size (34 by
data frame. Make it smaller by clicking the 44 inches), you can scale the map down to fit
upper-right handle and dragging it down and your printer.
to the left. You may want to zoom in while 1. Click the File menu and click Print.

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2. If the map is larger than the printer paper,
click Scale Map to fit Printer Paper. (Tile Map
to Printer Paper will print the map at full scale
on separate sheets of paper so you can paste
them together to display the full map.)
3. Click Setup.
4. Click Portrait for the paper orientation.
5. Click OK on the Page and Print Setup dialog
box and click OK on the Print dialog box to
print the map.
In this tutorial, you’ve been introduced to
many of the ArcMap tasks you’ll often use. The
ArcGIS Desktop Help provides more detail on
these tasks and shows you many more tasks
you can perform using ArcMap.

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