EEOS 381 - Applications of Geographic Information Systems

Spring, 2008

- Lab 4 -

Objective:

Become familiar with the ESRI Personal Geodatabase data format by completing the Editing Geodatabases Tutorial.

Steps:

1. Create a folder on your H: drive named lab4_381

2. Copy into H:\lab4_381 the zip folder S:\ge381_s08\labs\lab4\EditingWithArcGIS.zip

3. Extract the contents of the zip into H:\lab4_381.

4. Go through the entire “Editing_Geodatabases_Tutorial.pdf” PDF document, which is located in S:\ge381_f07\ESRI_PDFs.

Note that the tutorial references data in C:\arcgis\ArcTutor\EditingWithArcGIS, but you will need to replace any reference of that path with H:\lab4_381 (to access the data, make folder connection, etc.). All your edits will be saved in H:\lab4_381.

When you open the “Editing a Geodatabase.mxd” file in ArcMap (page 7), go to File > Map Properties and click “Data Source Options” and make sure that ‘Store relative path names’ is selected. (If not, click that option and save the MXD).

Save your edits and the .mxd as you go along (so if ArcMap crashes, you won’t lose all your work).

5. When done, save edits and stop editing, then save your MXD as <your_username>_lab4.mxd.

6. In Windows Explorer, select your .mxd and the Montgomery_full.gdb and right-click and choose Send To > Create a compressed (zipped) folder. Rename it <your_username>_lab4.zip and then copy the .zip folder into T:\EEOS_381\381_labs_submit\lab4.

Due on Monday, February 25, 2008.