Editing Data with ArcGIS for Desktop (10.7)

This course teaches how to create attractive maps that are easy to interpret and properly designed for their audience and delivery medium, with an emphasis on applying fundamental cartographic design principles. You will learn how to follow a standard cartographic workflow to efficiently produce high-quality maps for print and online use.

Course Outline - Editing Data with ArcGIS for Desktop (10.7)

Audience

GIS technicians, specialists, and other experienced ArcGIS users who need to create and maintain their organization's geographic data.

Goals

Apply a standard editing workflow to manage updates to your GIS database.
Efficiently create and edit feature geometry and attributes.
Solve common data alignment issues.
Maintain spatial relationships among features using topology

Prerequisites:

Completion of ArcGIS 2: Essentials Workflows or equivalent knowledge is required.

Completion of ArcGIS 1: Introduction to GIS is required.

GIS analysis workflow

Types of spatial analysis
Steps in the workflow
Options for sharing results

Editing workflow

ArcMap editing environment
Feature templates
Snapping
Creating a new feature
Editing feature attributes

Preparing to edit

Setting the data's coordinate system
Setting editing environment properties
Georeferencing a background image
Editor tracking
Creating feature templates
Authoring a map for editing
Share the map as a package

Editing feature geometry

Digitizing features
Constructing features relative to other features
Modifying existing features
Using map topology

Editing feature attributes

Managing the Attributes window
Working with attribute tables
Field Calculator expressions
Transferring attributes
Updating attributes for one feature
Updating attributes for multiple features at once

Data integration and quality control

Adding vector data to a geodatabase
Map topology versus geodatabase topology
Editing features using geodatabase topology

Data integration and alignment techniques

Solving data alignment problems
Advanced editing tools

Sharing and editing

Sharing options for editing resources
Creating map and layer packages

Project: Implementing the editing workflow

Review project data and tasks
Prepare a map for editing
Incorporate data stored in other formats into a geodatabase
Create and edit features
Solve data alignment issues

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