GISTutorial1 Update
GISTutorial1 Update
GIS Tutorial 1: Basic Workbook is an introductory text for learning ArcGIS for Desktop. This workbook presents GIS tools and
functionality, including querying interactive maps, collecting data, and running geoprocessing tools. Its detailed exercises,
Your Turn sections, and homework assignments can be adapted to learning GIS in a classroom or for independent study. Also
included is access to a 180-day trial of ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop Advanced software and a DVD with data for working through
the exercises. Instructor resources are available.
Wilpen L. Gorr is a professor of public policy and management information systems at the School of Public Policy and Management,
H. John Heinz III College, Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches and researches GIS applications. He is also chairman of the
schools Master of Science in Public Policy and Management degree program.
Basic Workbook
G I S T U T O R I A L1
G I S T U T O R I A L1
G I STUTORIAL
Basic Workbook
Kristen S. Kurland is a professor of architecture, information systems, and public policy at Carnegie Mellon Universitys H. John
Heinz III College and School of Architecture, where she teaches GIS, BIM, CAD, 3D visualization, and infrastructure management. Her
research includes spatial analysis of health issues.
The ArcGIS for Desktop software trial provided with this edition requires the Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008, or
Windows Server 2003 operating system. Hardware requirements: 2.2 GHz CPU with an SSE2 (or greater) Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core Duo, or Xeon
processor; 2 GB of RAM; at least 2.4 GB free disk space, including 50 MB of disk space in the Windows System directory; an additional 858 MB
hard-disk space is required for installing the exercise data. Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 must be installed on your computer before you install
ArcGIS for Desktop. ArcGIS for Desktop requires a minimum installation of Windows Internet Explorer version 7.0 or 8.0. For more information, visit
esri.com/arcgis101sysreq.
Gorr
and
Kurland
ISBN 978-1-58948-335-4
Wilpen L. Gorr
Kr i ste n S . Ku r l a n d
Contents
Part I Using and making maps
Introduction 1
Changes for chapter 1, Introduction. 2
Changes for chapter 2, Map design.. 4
Changes for chapter 3, GIS outputs 7
Introduction
This supplement has updates, changes, additions, and corrections for GIS Tutorial 1:
Basic Workbook, 10.1 edition (2013). There are many reasons for this supplement. First,
websites are frequently updated, so workbook steps or readings that have you refer to
or use websites often need changing. Second, the developers of ArcGIS for Desktop
provide quarterly software releases, and developers of ArcGIS Online make continuous
updates. These GIS software changes often dictate corresponding changes in the
workbook. This supplement provides information so that you can use the book with
ArcGIS 10.2 for Desktop. Finally, there remain some errors or unclear workbook
instructions found by users, such as you, that simply need to be fixed. Please e-mail
either of the authors ([email protected] or [email protected]) with any errors or problems
that you encounter, and youll get a quick response, either a thank-you or some help.
Heres how to use this supplement: when working through a chapter of the
workbook, first scan this supplements corresponding section, identified by chapter
number and title, and look for changes, provided by page number and section or step of
the workbook. A good practice, so as not to miss any changes, is to make a mark in the
workbook for each change or addition in this booklet, and then when coming to a mark
in the workbook, read and use the material in this booklet. Alternately, just keep both
the workbook and this supplement open, checking for changes as you work.
Pages 12635, Replace tutorial 3-8 with the revised tutorial below.
Tutorial 3-8
Using ArcGIS Online
ArcGIS Online (www.arcgis.com) can be used for obtaining, storing, sharing, and
using map layers in a browser. Esri sells subscription accounts for ArcGIS Online to
organizations but also provides free, public accounts to individuals with 2 GB of free
storage for online maps. So you can prepare spatial data using ArcGIS for Desktop,
upload your spatial data to ArcGIS Online, integrate your data with Esri and usersupplied map layers available from ArcGIS Online, and then share results over the
Internet using ArcGIS Online as your free web service host.
ArcGIS links you to the ArcGIS Online home page and access to the full menu
of options.
Groups is where you can create, manage, and sign up for group membership.
The files making up the shapefile must be at the root of the compressed file
and not in a folder. So in Computer, select the files making up the shapefile,
right-click the selection, click Send to, and then click Compressed (zipped)
folder.
At most there can be 1,000 features per shapefile (1,000 points, lines, or
polygons).
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Address
ZIPCode
Latitude
Longitude
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Note: A new map opens with a basemap displayed for the continental US.
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Note: Your Save in folder name will be automatically filled in by ArcGIS Online
and will be different from what you see in the figure.
YOUR TURN
Add Neighborhoods.zip to your map using the same procedure. The imported
neighborhoods cover up the schools, so click the small arrow to the right of
PittsburghSchools, and click Move up. Save your map.
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Rename layers
1 In the Contents panel, click the options arrow to the right of
PittsburghSchools, click Rename, type Pittsburgh Public Schools, and
click OK.
2 Do the same for neighborhoods, renaming it Pittsburgh Neighborhoods.
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Symbolize polygons
1 Click the Pittsburgh Neighborhoods options arrow and click Change
Symbols.
2 The default, A Single Symbol, is whats needed here, but click the arrow
to the right and look at the options.
Single Symbol uses the same color fill and border for each polygon, Unique
Symbols uses a code in the layers attribute table for color coding, Color applies a
color ramp to a numeric scale that you design, and Size allows you to build sizegraduated point markers (centroid point markers for the case of polygons).
3 With A Single Symbol selected, click Change Symbol.
Note: Needed here is hollow fill, which you can apply using the trick in the next
step.
4 In the Transparency row, move the slider to 100%.
5 Type 1.5 for Outline pixel width (px).
Click Done. Close the Change Symbols panel by clicking the small
triangle
If you close the table of contents panel by mistake, you can get it back by clicking
Details on the main menu.
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Symbolize points
1 Click the options arrow for Pittsburgh Public Schools and click Change
Symbols.
2 Click Unique Symbols and select Level as the attribute to show.
3 Click the point marker symbol for High (high school) and click Change
Symbol.
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4 Click Shapes, select the blue circular point marker, and type 24 for the
size (px).
YOUR TURN
Symbolize the remaining values of the Level code as you wish. Close the Change
Symbols window and click the Show Map Legend button
map to see that a window pops up with the schools record. Its possible to configure
the pop-up window by clicking the Show Contents of Map button, clicking the arrow to
the right of Pittsburgh Public Schools, and clicking Configure Pop-up. Try it by clicking
the Configure Attributes link and choosing which attributes to display and typing good
labels for field aliases. Be sure to click SAVE POP-UP in the Pop-up Properties window.
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own sources, its partners, and the GIS community at large. Anyone can share maps and
data via ArcGIS.com. Next, you change the basemap and then search for hospitals to
add to your map.
When you search for a layer using keywords, ArcGIS produces results that match the
keywords and overlap with the map extent of your current window.
2 Click Streets.
ArcGIS.com replaces the former basemap with the Streets basemap.
3 Zoom closer in to Pittsburgh. More detailed streets are turned on as you zoom in.
YOUR TURN
Experiment with other basemaps. Be sure to try some imagery and zoom way in. Switch
back to the Topographic basemap and zoom out to show all of Pittsburgh. Save your
map.
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2 Type hospitals in the Find box, make sure that the In box is set to ArcGIS
Online, and click Go.
3 Click Add for USHHS Health Resources Locations.
This adds the layer to your map.
4 Close the Search for Layers window and click Show Map Legend.
Now you can interpret the added layer.
5 Click the Show Contents of Map button
Resources Locations to display each type of health service, and click all
but Hospitals to remove the check marks. Switch back to the legend.
Your options for sharing are to share with everyone or with a group. Do not
share your map with everyone (public) because that would just clog up the
online system. For now, youll do nothing.
4 Click Cancel.
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The map opens on your iPhone. You can use conventional swiping to zoom in or
out and pan.
6 Click the i button on the lower right of the screen.
This provides access to three buttons: Legend for the map legend, Content for
the table of contents, and Detail for documentation.
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Click the Map button on the upper left of the screen. This gets you back to your
map.
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PAZipCodes to select it, and click OK. Click the option button for Single
Field, select ZIP_Code for the Complete ZIP Code field, and change the
output name to \EsriPress\GIST1\MyExercises\Chapter8\Chapter8.gdb
\AttendeesZIP.
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Numeric > the Number of decimal places option button, and select 9 for
number of decimal places. Click OK > OK.
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Note: [Area] is the area of the city block being represented by a point in OHCA. So
the density, [RASTERVALU] (heart attacks per square foot), times [Area] (square feet)
yields number of heart attacks.
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YOUR TURN
Suppose that you do not care to see the individual kernel density maps, but only the
poverty index. Right-click the output of each kernel density process and click to remove
the Add To Display check mark. Besides preventing future display of these map layers,
this action removes current map layers from the map document. Now right-click
PovertyIndex (2) in the table of contents and save as a layer file. Right-click PovertyIndex
(2) in the model, click Properties > Layer Property, and select the layer file you just
created. Remove PovertyIndex (2) from the table of contents, and use Catalog to delete
PovertyIndex from Chapter11.gdb. Click Model > Validate Entire Model, and then click
Model > Run Entire Model. After the model runs, you should see the end result, the
PovertyIndex raster map layer, in your map document symbolized with the PovertyIndex
layer file. Finally, to see the benefit of your model, suppose that a policy maker wants to
emphasize female-headed households with children, so open the Weighted Sum process
and change the weight for KDFHHChld to 0.4, and change the rest of the weights to 0.2.
Validate and run the entire model again. Now you have the revised poverty index with
little effort. The new index is not much different from the original version, which is good
to know. Save and close your model.
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