ArcGIS for Desktop Cookbook

Daniela Cristiana Docan



Over 60 hands-on recipes to help you become a more productive ArcGIS for Desktop user

ArcGIS for Desktop is one of the strongest components of the Esri ArcGIS platform. Users find it exciting because it has a lot of powerful tools and can work with a wide range of spatial data formats.

This book will make you a more effective and efficient GIS user by showing you how to use ArcGIS for Desktop to create your own geodatabase model and manage layers, symbols, and label styles. Furthermore it will help you learn how to create map documents, edit data in feature classes, find and fix topological errors, analyze surfaces, and most importantly create 3D representations, import and export several different data formats, and much more.

Table of Contents

1: DESIGNING GEODATABASE
2: EDITING DATA
3: WORKING WITH CRS
4: GEOPROCESSING
5: WORKING WITH SYMBOLOGY
6: BUILDING BETTER MAPS
7: EXPORTING YOUR MAPS
8: WORKING WITH GEOCODING AND LINEAR REFERENCING
9: WORKING WITH SPATIAL ANALYST
10: WORKING WITH 3D ANALYST
11: WORKING WITH DATA INTEROPERABILITY