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1 ArcGIS 9 ArcMap TutorialCopyright 2000 2008 ESRIAll rights in the United States of information contained in this document is the exclusive property of ESRI. This work is protected under United States copyright law and other international copyright treaties andconventions. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storageor retrieval system, except as expressly permitted in writing by ESRI. All requests should be sent to Attention: Contracts and Legal Services Manager, ESRI, 380 New York Street, Redlands,CA 92373-8100 information contained in this document is subject to change without CREDITSQ uick-Start Tutorial Data: Wilson, North CarolinaCONTRIBUTING WRITERSR honda Glennon, Melanie Harlow, Michael Minami, Bob GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED/LIMITED RIGHTSAny software, documentation, and/or data delivered hereunder is subject to the terms of the License Agreement.

2 In no event shall the Government acquire greater than RESTRICTED/LIMITED RIGHTS. At a minimum, use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in FAR Alternates I, II, and III (JUN 1987); FAR (JUN 1987) and/or FAR (Commercial Technical Data/Computer Software); and DFARS (NOV 1995) (Technical Data) and/or DFARS (Computer Software), as applicable. Contractor/Manufacturer is ESRI, 380 New York Street, Redlands, CA 92373-8100, , the ESRI globe logo, ArcInfo, ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcGIS , and are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of ESRI in the United States, the EuropeanCommunity, or certain other companies and products mentioned herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective trademark , 3:43 PM1IN THIS TUTORIAL1 ArcMap Tutorial Exercise 1: Exploring your data Exercise 2: Working withgeographic features Exercise 3: Working with tables Exercise 4: Editing features Exercise 5: Working with mapelementsThe best way to learn ArcMap is to try it yourself.

3 This tutorial guides youthrough some basic ArcMap skills as you create and print a set of maps for acounty that is planning to expand its of the county have identified several issues they are concernedabout. These include noise affecting schools and houses near the airport andincreased traffic along major roads. In this tutorial, you ll first create and printa map showing schools near the airport. Then you ll place this map alongwith two other maps that show land use surrounding the airport and populationdensity for the county on a wall-sized poster for 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. Create a summary graph. Lay out and print a are five exercises.

4 Each exercise takes between 30 and 45 minutes tocomplete. You can work through the entire tutorial or complete each lessonone at a TUTORIALE xercise 1: Exploring your dataIn this exercise, you ll create a map showing locations ofschools near the airport, along with a noise contour, to seewhich schools may be affected by noise from the noise contour is based on the 65 Community NoiseEquivalency Level (CNEL), which indicates areasexperiencing more than 65 decibels of noise, averaged overa 24-hour period. In many cases, buildings within the65 CNEL will need soundproofing or other exercises use the tutorial data distributed with ArcGIS Desktop. The default installation location of the data isC:\ ArcGIS \ArcTutor\Map. The exercises require that youhave write access to this data.

5 If you don t, you ll need tocopy the data to a location that you do have write ArcMapArcMap lets you explore your geographic data and createmaps for Click the Start button on the Windows Point to Point to Click an existing map documentThe first time you start ArcMap, the startup dialog boxappears. The startup dialog box offers you several optionsfor starting your ArcMap session. For this exercise, youwant to open an existing map Double-click Browse for maps. If this is not the firsttime ArcMap has been started and the startup dialog boxdoes not appear, click File on the main menu and TUTORIAL32. On the Open dialog box, click the Look in drop-downarrow and navigate to the Map folder on the local drivewhere you installed the tutorial data (the defaultinstallation path is C:\ ArcGIS \ArcTutor\Map).

6 3. Double-click ArcMap opens the particular map contains the following layers in theSchools data frame:schoolslocations of elementary, middle, high, andprivate schoolsrunwayslocation of airport runwaysarterialsmajor roadscnel65the noise contourairport_areathe proposed airport expansion zonecountythe county boundaryThe map currently displays the arterials, noise contour,airport area, and county boundary. Their boxes are checkedin the table of stores a map as a map document (.mxd) so youcan redisplay it, modify it, or share it with other ArcMapusers. The map document doesn t store the actual data butrather, references the data stored on disk along withinformation about how it should be displayed. The mapdocument also stores other information about the map, suchas its size and the map elements it includes (title, scale bar,and so on).

7 To the left of the ArcMap display window is the table ofcontents, showing you which geographic layers areavailable to display. To the right is the map display of contentsMap display area234 ARCMAP TUTORIALM oving around the mapThe Tools toolbar lets you move around the map and querythe features on the map. Place your pointer over each icon(without clicking) to see a description of each Using the Zoom In tool, draw a box around the noisecontour to zoom in. Place the pointer on the upper-leftpart of the contour, click the mouse button, and hold itdown while dragging to the lower right. You ll see thebox drawn on the screen. When you release the mousebutton, ArcMap zooms in to the area defined by the If necessary, use the Pan tool (the hand) on the Toolstoolbar to reposition the map so the noise contour is inthe center of the display area (hold the mouse buttondown while dragging in the direction you want to movethe features, then release the button).

8 Displaying a layerThe table of contents lets you turn layers on and off in thedisplay. To display a layer, check the box next to its turn it off, uncheck it. Display the schools and runwaysby checking their boxes in the table of TUTORIAL5 Changing the display symbolArcMap lets you change the colors and symbols you use todisplay features. You ll change the symbols for schoolsfrom a dot to a standard symbol used for schools on Click the dot symbol in the table of contents to displaythe Symbol Selector dialog Scroll down until you find the School 1 symbol and Click schools are drawn with the new can also open the Symbol Selector dialog box by right-clicking the layer name, choosing Properties from the menuthat appears, and clicking the Symbology tab.

9 To simplychange the color of a symbol, right-click the symbol in thetable of contents to display the color TUTORIALI dentifying a featureThere is one school that may be within the noise contouraround the Using the Zoom In tool, draw a box around the school tozoom can see that the school is indeed within the Click the Identify tool on the Tools toolbar. The Identifywindow Move the mouse pointer over the school and click. Thename of the school (Northwestern Prep) is listed in theIdentify window. Notice that only the features in thetopmost layer are identified. You can also identifyfeatures in other layers by choosing the specific layersyou want to identify by clicking the Identify from: drop-down arrow in the dialog the Identify TUTORIAL74.

10 Click the Back button on the Tools toolbar to return toyour previous graphicsYou can add text and other graphics to your display usingthe Draw toolbar at the bottom of the ArcMap Click the New Text button. The pointer changes to acrosshair with an Move the mouse pointer near the school you identifiedand In the text box that appears, type Northwestern Prep and press blue dotted line surrounds the text, indicating it iscurrently selected. You can reposition the text byclicking and holding down the mouse button whiledragging the text, then releasing the When you re finished positioning the text near theschool, click outside the text box to deselect TUTORIALL aying out a mapArcMap lets you work in data view or layout view. Dataview focuses on a single data frame.