- Lab 5 -
Objective:
Become familiar with the ESRI Personal Geodatabase data format by completing the Editing GIS
Features Tutorial.
Steps:
1. Create a folder on your H:
drive named lab5_381
2. Copy into H:\lab5_381 the
folder S:\ge381_s08\labs\lab5\lab5.zip
3. Unzip the contents of the zip
file into H:\lab5_381.
Complete Exercises 1, 2, 4, 5, 6
and 7 in the “Editing_Tutorial.pdf” PDF document, which
is located in S:\ge381_s08\ESRI_PDFs.
Notes:
** The tutorial references data in C:\arcgis\ArcTutor\Editor, but you will
instead refer to H:\lab5_381 (to access the data, make folder connection,
etc.). All your edits will be saved in H:\lab5_381.
** When you open each MXD, go to File > Map Properties and click Data Source
Options. Click ‘Store relative path names’ and Click OK, click OK again. Then
save your MXD.
** In each MXD you may need to reset the data sources to point to the data you
extracted from the zip stored in your H: drive (you will see little red
exclamation points in the table of contents). Here is a guide:
Exercises 1 & 2:
StudyArea -- studyarea.shp
(at top level of your working folder)
RoadCasings and IndexGrid
-- inside the EditorTutorial.gdb (in the IndexArea Feature Dataset)
Exercise 4:
Water, Buildings, and Parcels – inside the EditorTutorial.gdb
(in the SimpleEdits Feature Dataset)
New Buildings -- buildings.dxf (polygons; in the EditingFeatures folder)
Exercise 5:
Hydro_region and Hydro_units
– inside the TopologyEdits\TopologyTutorial.gdb (in
the Watersheds Feature Dataset)
Hillshaded_terrain.sid -- Hillshaded_terrain.sid
(in the TopologyEdits folder)
Exercise 6:
IndexGrid and RoadCasings
-- inside the EditorTutorial.gdb (in the IndexArea Feature Dataset)
LotLines and StudyRegion --
inside the EditorTutorial.gdb (in the StudyArea Feature Dataset)
** Save your edits and the .mxds as you go along (so
if ArcMap crashes, you won’t lose all your work).
When done,
create a zip folder named <your_username>_lab5.zip.
Add into this zip file the following:
- CreateNewFeatures.mxd
- EditingFeatures.mxd
- MapTopology.mxd
- WorkingWithCAD.mxd
- EditorTutorial.gdb
- studyarea.shp
- TopologyTutorial.gdb
- Hillshaded_terrain.sid
Copy the zip into T:\EEOS_381\381_labs_submit\lab5.
Due on Monday, March 3, 2008.