• Create a file geodatabase and add shapefiles, CAD files, coverages, and Excel spreadsheets to it.
• Store and manage raster data in a file geodatabase.
• Create and apply attribute domains, subtypes, topology, and relationship classes to model data and ensure data integrity during editing.
• Create geodatabase annotation to store and reuse text and graphics that describe features or areas on a map.
• Create a geometric network to model and analyze a directed flow network such as a utility network.
• Define a geodatabase schema to efficiently model and store your data.

Download table of contents

• Types of geodatabases
• Geodatabase elements
• Geodatabase tables in a database management system (DBMS)

• Subtypes and domains
• Creating subtypes and domains
• Editing with subtypes and domains in ArcMap
• Coded value domains versus range domains
• Subtypes and relationship rules

• Creating relationship classes
• Setting relationship class properties
• Using relationships in ArcMap
• Relationship rules
• Validation
• Simple versus composite relationships

• Creating, editing, and managing annotation features

• Topology management
• Building a topology
• Setting the properties of a topology
• Setting appropriate topological rules
• Fixing topological errors
• Editing topological data

• Creating and editing geometric networks
• Performing analysis
• Setting and using connectivity rules

• Different ways to define a geodatabase schema
• Creating tables, feature classes, and feature datasets

• Understanding XML schemas of the geodatabase
• Exporting geodatabase contents to XML
• Importing an XML file to define the schema

• Loading data from shapefiles, CAD files, coverages, and Excel spreadsheets
• ArcGIS vector data loading tools

• Storing raster datasets, raster catalogs, and raster attributes

Best GIS Training will provide the following software to use during class:

• ArcGIS 10.0 for Desktop (ArcInfo)