Scribd
Upload
33 views2 pages

Using Arcgis Desktop: Additional Toolbars Are Available From The View Menu

ArcMap provides specialized toolbars and context menus to access settings, properties, and options for data frames, layers, and graphic objects. Context menus can be accessed by right-clicking components and include a Properties option to open properties dialog boxes where symbols, labels, and other properties can be modified. ArcMap allows users to display and visualize geographic data in maps, interactively query and explore data through tools like Identify and Find, and edit geographic data.

Uploaded by

Mathias Eder
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
33 views2 pages

Using Arcgis Desktop: Additional Toolbars Are Available From The View Menu

ArcMap provides specialized toolbars and context menus to access settings, properties, and options for data frames, layers, and graphic objects. Context menus can be accessed by right-clicking components and include a Properties option to open properties dialog boxes where symbols, labels, and other properties can be modified. ArcMap allows users to display and visualize geographic data in maps, interactively query and explore data through tools like Identify and Find, and edit geographic data.

Uploaded by

Mathias Eder
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

Using ArcGIS Desktop

A number of specialized toolbars are used for specific tasks. These are accessed from the
View menu (point to Toolbars).

Additional toolbars are available from the


View menu.

You use context menus in ArcMap to access the setting, properties, and other options for
data frames, layers, and graphic objects (for example, you open a layers attribute table
from the context menu). Right-click a data frame name or layer name in the table of
contents to display the context menu. Right-click a graphic object in the display window to
display its context menu.

Right-click a component to
display the context menu.
Click Properties to display the
properties dialog box.

Properties dialog
box for a map

Properties dialog box for a layer

26

udt_ch01.indd 26

10/17/2006 2:43:57 PM

1 Introduction

Each context menu includes a Properties option, displayed at the bottom of the menu. By
clicking it youll open a Properties dialog box. Symbols and labels are properties of a layer.
Layers have other properties you can access and modify, using the various tabs on the
properties dialog box (as do data frames and graphic objects). For example, transparency
(on the Display tab) can be used to let layers drawn underneath show through.

Set a transparency level


for the flood zone to reveal
parcels drawn underneath.

ArcMap tasks
ArcMap is used to display geographic data and create maps, interactively query and explore
data, and edit geographic data.
Display data and create maps

To display geographic datasets, youll add layers to and remove layers from the map
document, change symbology and labels, zoom and pan on the map extent, and so on. This
work will be done in data view. When you want to make a map for printing or publication,
youll switch to layout view, add map elements, such as titles and legends, arrange the data
frames and map elements on the page, and then print the map or export it to a standard
graphic format. Displaying data and making maps are discussed in Chapter 4, Mapping
and Visualization.
Query and explore geographic data

A map document can be thought of as an interactive map that lets you not only display
geographic data, but also get information about the features in the document. The Tools
toolbar includes the Identify tool that lets you point to one or more features in the display
window and list the descriptive information (contained in the layer attribute table) for those
features. It also includes the Find tool that lets you find and zoom to specific features or
locations. ArcMap includes several ways to select a subset of featuresyou can point to
one or more features on a map or draw a box around them, you can select features based
on their spatial relationship to other features, such as parcels within 100 feet of a park, or
you can select features using their attributesfor example, you can select all the vacant
parcels in a parcel layer. Query and selection is discussed in Chapter 4, Mapping and
Visualization, and Chapter 5, Geographic Analysis.

27

udt_ch01.indd 27

10/17/2006 2:44:04 PM

You might also like