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Homework 4 - Lab Session Notes: in Data View

This document provides instructions for completing Homework 4 in an ArcMap GIS lab session. It outlines 7 steps to open a new map, add and style data layers, and design the map layout in the layout view. Key tasks include saving the map, enabling relative pathnames, adding shapefile data, setting symbology for population density and toll roads layers, and adding a title, neatline, north arrow, legend, scale bar, map inset, and dynamic text before exporting the final map as a PDF image file.

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Homework 4 - Lab Session Notes: in Data View

This document provides instructions for completing Homework 4 in an ArcMap GIS lab session. It outlines 7 steps to open a new map, add and style data layers, and design the map layout in the layout view. Key tasks include saving the map, enabling relative pathnames, adding shapefile data, setting symbology for population density and toll roads layers, and adding a title, neatline, north arrow, legend, scale bar, map inset, and dynamic text before exporting the final map as a PDF image file.

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Homework 4 - Lab Session Notes

1. Open a new ArcMap blank document.


2. Save it first before doing anything else
a. e.g. CEE81B_HW4.mxd
3. Go to ​File ​→ ​Map Document Properties ​→ Check box next to: ​“Store relative
pathnames to data sources”

In Data View:
4. Click ​Add Data ​button on toolbar
a. Navigate using to your data files (shapefiles in this case) using the folder with the
plus sign (see screenshot below)

b. Add all you data files.


i. Remember that the order the layers are listed in the Table of Contents is
the order they will be drawn. (But you can drag & drop them to
re-arrange)
5. Right click the layer which contains the data you want to display
a. Got to Properties → Symbology
b. Hints:​
i. For the population density map, you’ll want to use ​Graduate Symbols ​to
show the population density data (see lecture slides)
ii. For the toll roads map, you’ll want to use ​Unique Values ​to show which
highways are toll roads, and which are not. (see lecture slides)
c. To change the decimal places of the values that will show in your legend, click
the ​Label​ column header (within Symbology) → then select ​Format Labels

d. Then you can change the formatting of the numbers (change the number in the
Rounding section; see screenshot below)
e.

In Layout View:
6. Once you are done with displaying the data in your map, editing your layer names, and
editing the colors of your layers, you will go to ​Layout View ​to add your map
components
a. In Layout View you will ​Insert:
i. Title
ii. Neatline
iii. North Arrow
iv. Legend (make sure you only include the layer that your data is in)
v. Scale bar
vi. Map Inset
1. Insert → Data Frame → right click → Add Data → Countries.shp
→ … etc. (like I showed in class)
vii. Dynamic Text
1. Current Date
2. Coordinate System
b. Remember that you can edit the looks of your map components within Layout
View by selecting them → right click → properties
7. Once your map is complete (matches the example maps given in the Homework 4
slides), Export your map to an image file (e.g. PDF)
a. File → Export Map

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