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Use this workbook to focus on the fundamentals of creating and using a geodatabase, the primary information model across the ArcGIS platform.
Focus on Geodatabases in ArcGIS Pro by David W. Allen shares best practices for designing, creating, and using geodatabases. You will learn how to:
Design the geodatabase schema
Create a geodatabase
Populate and share a geodatabase
Extend data formats
Work with features
Perform advanced editing
Work with topology
Each chapter discusses focused concepts with hands-on, step-by-step tutorials. Each tutorial includes a sample project file, datasets, special ‘Your Turn’ segments where you can practice earlier concepts, a review with study questions for classroom use, and an independent exercise that you work through to ensure that you have mastered the concepts. Instructor resources are available by request.
David W. Allen has been working in the GIS field for over 35 years, the last 30 with the City of Euless, Texas, and has seen many versions of ArcInfo and ArcGIS come along since he started with version 5. He spent 18 years as an adjunct professor at Tarrant County College in Ft. Worth, Texas, and now serves as the State Director of Operations for a volunteer emergency response group developing databases and templates. Mr. Allen is the author of GIS Tutorial 2: Spatial Analysis Workbook (Esri Press, 2016).
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Designing the geodatabase schema
Tutorial 1-1: Creating a geodatabase--building a logical model
Exercise 1-1
Tutorial 1-2: Creating a geodatabas--expanding the logical model
Exercise 1-2
Chapter 2 Creating a geodatabase
Tutorial 2-1: Building a geodatabase
Exercise 2-1
Tutorial 2-2: Adding complex geodatabase components
Exercise 2-2
Chapter 3 Populating and sharing a geodatabase
Tutorial 3-1: Loading data into a geodatabase
Exercise 3-1
Tutorial 3-2: Populating geodatabase subtypes
Exercise 3-2
Chapter 4 Extending data formats
Tutorial 4-1: Putting your data online
Exercise 4-1
Tutorial 4-2: Creating 3D scenes
Exercise 4-2
Chapter 5 Working with features
Tutorial 5-1: Creating new features
Exercise 5-1
Tutorial 5-2: Using context menu creation tools
Exercise 5-2
Chapter 6 Advanced editing
Tutorial 6-1: Exploring more creation tools
Exercise 6-1
Tutorial 6-2: Building feature templates
Exercise 6-2
Chapter 7 Working with topology
Tutorial 7-1: Working with map topology
Exercise 7-1
Tutorial 7-2:Working with geodatabase topology
Exercise 7-2
Index
About the author
David W. Allen has been working in the GIS field for over 35 years, the last 30 with the City of Euless, Texas, and has seen many versions of ArcInfo and ArcGIS come along since he started with version 5. He spent 18 years as an adjunct professor at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas, and now serves as the State Director of Operations for a volunteer emergency response group developing databases and templates. Mr. Allen is the author of
GIS Tutorial 2: Spatial Analysis Workbook (Esri Press, 2016).
Summary
Focus on Geodatabases in ArcGIS Pro introduces readers to the geodatabase, the comprehensive information model for representing and managing geographic information across the ArcGIS platform.
