Learning ArcGIS Pro 2
Second Edition
Second Edition
A beginner's guide to creating 2D and 3D maps and editing geospatial data with ArcGIS Pro
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Dedication
- About Packt
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section 1: Introducing and Navigating ArcGIS Pro
- Introducing ArcGIS Pro
- Technical requirements
- Checking requirements for installing ArcGIS Pro
- Understanding ArcGIS Pro minimum system requirements
- Learning about OS requirements
- Understanding the hardware requirements
- Other supporting software requirements
- Author system recommendations
- Testing to see whether your computer can run ArcGIS Pro
- Downloading and installing ArcGIS Pro
- How to download the installation files
- Installing ArcGIS Pro
- Installing ArcGIS Pro offline help files
- Managing and assigning ArcGIS Pro licenses
- Understanding the number and level of ArcGIS Pro licenses
- Assigning ArcGIS Pro licenses
- Downloading and installing the exercise data
- Launching ArcGIS Pro
- Opening an ArcGIS Pro Project
- Summary
- Further reading
- Navigating the Ribbon Interface
- Technical requirements
- Understanding the new interface terminology
- ArcGIS Pro interface terminology
- Introducing the user interface
- Using the interface
- Navigating the ribbon
- Project tab
- Map tab
- Navigate group
- Layer group
- Selection group
- Inquiry group
- Exercise 2A – Working with the Map tab
- Step 1 – Opening a project
- Step 2 – Navigating the map
- Step 3 – Using the Infographics tool (optional)
- Learning about contextual tabs
- Understanding the Feature Layer contextual tab set
- Learning about the Appearance tab
- Visibility Range group
- Effects group
- Drawing group
- Extrusion and Faces groups
- Learning about the Labeling tab
- Layer group
- Label Class group
- Text Symbol group
- Label Placement group
- Map group
- Learning about the Data tab
- Definition Query group
- Table group
- Selection group
- Export group
- Exercise 2B – Working with 2D and 3D layers
- Step 1 – Opening the project and adding layers
- Step 2 – Changing symbology
- Step 3 – Labeling
- Step 4 – Working with a 3D layer
- Challenge
- Summary
- Section 2: Visualizing, Maintaining, and Analyzing Data
- Creating 2D Maps
- Technical requirements
- Creating and configuring 2D maps
- Creating a new map
- Exercise 3A – Adding and configuring layers in a map
- Step 1 – Creating the project
- Step 2 – Connecting data sources
- Step 3 – Adding layers
- Step 4 – Saving a layer file
- Step 5 – Renaming your map
- Exercise 3B – Adding a new map to a project
- Step 1 – Creating the new map in a project
- Step 2 – Filtering a layer with a definition query
- Step 3 – Adding annotations to the map
- Exercise 3C – Using map and layer files
- Step 1 – Adding a new map using a map file
- Step 2 – Creating and using a layer file
- Step 3 – Labeling the pipe sizes
- Step 4 – Configuring label conflict and placement options
- Skill challenge
- Summary
- Further reading
- Creating 3D Scenes
- Technical requirements
- Understanding 3D Scenes
- Exercise 4A – Creating a simple 3D Scene
- Step 1 – Creating a project and 3D Scene
- Step 2 – Adding a layer
- Step 3 – Making a 3D layer 
- Step 4 – Combining types of symbology
- Learning about elevations and how to use them
- Establishing ground elevations
- Understanding DEMs
- Understanding TINs
- Understanding extruding features
- Other methods to display 3D data
- Exercise 4B – Creating a Local Scene
- Step 1 – Opening a project and adding a Local Scene
- Step 2 – Setting the ground surface
- Step 3 – Adding layers and setting symbology
- Summary
- Further reading
- Creating and Working with Projects
- Technical requirements
- Working with an ArcGIS Pro project
- Understanding project terminology
- Using the Catalog pane
- The Project tab
- The Portal tab
- The Favorites tab
- Exercise 5A – Using the Catalog pane
- Step 1 – Opening and saving a project
- Step 2 – Navigating the Catalog pane
- Step 3 – Adding a database connection
- Step 4 – Adjusting the layers
- Step 5 – Accessing and adding a layer from a portal (optional)
- Step 6 – Adding a folder connection as a favorite
- Step 7 – Adding a favorite to a project
- Creating a new project and project templates
- Creating a new project with Esri templates
- Exercise 5B – Using an Esri template to create a new project
- Step 1 – Creating a new project using the Local Scene template
- Step 2 – Connecting to data sources and adding your surface
- Creating custom project templates
- Exercise 5C – Creating a custom project template
- Step 1 – Creating a project
- Step 2 – Setting up a default map in the template
- Step 3 – Adding a layout from an existing map document
- Step 4 – Saving a project as a template
- Step 5 – Creating a new project using a custom template
- Word of warning
- Summary
- Creating a Layout
- Technical requirements
- Understanding the considerations of designing a layout
- Understanding the purpose
- Practice exercise – Determining the purpose
- Understanding the audience for the map
- Learning about the age factor
- Understanding the education and knowledge level
- Learning about the situation
- Creating a layout in ArcGIS Pro
- Understanding the general workflow to create a layout
- Exercise 6A – Creating a simple layout
- Step 1 – Opening ArcGIS Pro and your project
- Step 2 – Adding a new blank layout
- Step 3 – Displaying the desired area
- Step 4 – Adding other elements
- Challenge 1
- Exercise 6B – Creating and using a layout template
- Step 1 – Saving a template file
- Step 2 – Creating a new layout using the layout file
- Step 3 – Configuring the new layout
- Challenge 2
- Summary
- Creating Map Books Using Map Series
- Technical requirements
- What is a map series? 
- Understanding and creating a map series
- Learning about indexes
- Creating grid and strip indexes
- Understanding the Grid Index Features tool
- Learning about the Strip Map Index Features tool
- Exercise 7A – Creating a grid index
- Step 1 – Opening ArcGIS Pro and your project
- Step 2 – Creating the grid index
- Enabling the Map Series functionality
- Exercise 7B – Enabling the map series
- Step 1 – Opening the project and layout
- Step 2 – Enabling and configuring the map series
- Step 3 – Adding a page name to your layout
- Step 4 – Viewing pages in a series
- Step 5 – Printing a map series
- Summary
- Learning to Edit Spatial Data
- Technical requirements
- Understanding the editable data formats
- Data formats – editable or not
- Understanding geodatabases
- Identifying your data format
- Editing data using ArcGIS Pro
- How to start editing features and attributes
- Preparing ArcGIS Pro to edit data
- Learning about the Edit tab
- Clipboard group
- Manage Edits group
- Snapping group
- Features group
- Selection group
- Creating new features
- Learning about feature templates
- Exercise 8A – Creating new features
- Step 1 – Opening your project and preparing to edit
- Step 2 – Adding your source data
- Step 3 – Drawing a new sewer line
- Step 4 – Updating attributes
- Challenge
- Step 5 – Drawing the manholes
- Step 6 – Adding the street centerlines
- Step 7 – Creating the street rights-of-way
- Exercise 8B – Splitting polygons
- Step 1 – Splitting out the rights-of-way
- Step 2 – Splitting out individual lot polygons
- Summary
- Further reading
- Learning about Editing Tabular Data
- Technical requirements
- Editing your schema
- Adding a field
- Field name
- Alias
- Field types
- Exercise 9A – Adding a field and populating values    
- Importing a new feature class
- Exercise 9B – Importing a shapefile
- Step 1 – Opening the project and adding a layer
- Step 2 – Exporting to a geodatabase
- Populating field values in a database
- Understanding methods to edit or add single values
- Attributes window
- Editing directly in the attribute table
- Exercise 9C – Editing attributes
- Step 1 – Opening the project and zooming to the correct location
- Step 2 – Adding Street_Centerline attribute values
- Mass-populating table values by using tools
- Calculate Field tool
- Calculate Geometry tool
- Exercise 9D – Using tools to mass-populate field values
- Step 1 – Populating the field using the Field Calculator tool
- Step 2 – Using the Calculate Geometry tool
- Summary
- Further reading
- Performing Analysis with Geoprocessing Tools
- Technical requirements
- Determining which tools to use
- Understanding licensing levels
- Learning about extensions for ArcGIS Pro
- Spatial Analyst
- 3D Analyst
- Network Analyst
- Exercise 10A – Determining your license level and extensions
- Step 1 – Opening ArcGIS Pro
- Step 2 – Determining the license level and extension
- Understanding the analysis process
- Preparing data for analysis
- Clip geoprocessing tool
- Dissolve tool
- Project tool
- Merge tool
- Append tool
- Exercise 10B – Using the Clip and Dissolve tools
- Step 1 – Evaluating the data
- Step 2 – Clipping the streets
- Step 3 – Simplifying the data and calculating the total length
- Step 4 – Exporting a table to Excel
- Using other common geoprocessing analysis tools
- Overlay analysis
- Union
- Intersect
- Proximity analysis
- Buffer tool
- Multiple Ring Buffer tool
- Exercise 10C – Performing analysis
- Step 1 – Locating commercial properties near sewer lines
- Step 2 – Exporting selected parcels
- Step 3 – Determining how much of each commercial property is in the floodplain
- Step 4 – Selecting commercial parcels that are not in the floodplain
- Step 5 – Reviewing your geoprocessing history
- Summary
- Section 3: Sharing Data and Automating processes
- Creating and Using Tasks
- Technical requirements
- Understanding what a task is
- Components of a task
- Running a task
- Exercise 11A – Running a simple task
- Step 1 – Starting ArcGIS Pro and opening a project
- Step 2 – Opening and running a task
- Learning how to create tasks
- Exercise 11B – Exploring a task
- Step 1 – Opening a project
- Step 2 – Opening a task in the Task Designer
- Step 3 – Reviewing a task's steps
- Things to consider when creating a task
- Understanding the purpose of the task
- Determining the workflow to support the purpose
- Using tasks in different ways
- Determining the audience for a task
- Creating a task yourself
- Creating a task item
- Creating a task group
- Creating a task
- Exercise 11C – Creating a task
- Step 1 – Opening a project and creating a task item
- Step 2 – Creating a new task
- Adding task steps
- Learning about the components of a step
- General
- Actions
- Views
- Contents
- Exercise 11D – Adding steps to a task
- Step 1 – Opening the task in the Task Designer
- Step 2 – Adding a step to zoom
- Step 3 – Selecting the road segment
- Step 4 – Selecting nearby parcels
- Step 5 – Exporting the selection to an Excel spreadsheet
- Step 6 – Running your task
- Challenge
- Summary
- Automating Processes with ModelBuilder and Python
- Technical requirements
- Differentiating between tasks, geoprocessing models, and Python scripts
- Learning about geoprocessing models
- Understanding Python scripts
- What is the difference between the three?
- Creating geoprocessing models
- Understanding model components and terminology
- Saving a model
- Exercise 12A – Creating a model
- Step 1 – Opening the project and the ModelBuilder window
- Step 2 – Adding model components
- Step 3 – Adding another process
- Running a model
- Exercise 12B – Running a model
- Step 1 – Running the model from ModelBuilder
- Step 2 – Resetting the run state
- Step 3 – Running the model from a toolbox
- Making a model interactive
- Exercise 12C – Allowing users to provide inputs to run models
- Step 1 – Marking variables as parameters
- Step 2 – Exposing hidden variables
- Step 3 – Running the model
- Learning about Python
- Understanding Python basics
- Commenting and documenting your scripts
- Learning about variables
- Understanding data paths
- Learning about the ArcPy module
- Locating Python syntax for a geoprocessing tool
- Exercise 12D – Creating a Python script
- Step 1 – Opening IDLE
- Step 2 – Writing the script
- Step 3 – Adding the script to ArcGIS Pro and running it
- Summary
- Further reading
- Sharing Your Work with Others
- Technical requirements
- Sharing content with those on your network
- Sharing data if users have ArcGIS Pro
- Understanding the layer file
- Exercise 13A – Creating a layer file and using it
- Step 1 – Creating the layer file
- Step 2 – Using the layer file to add a layer to a map
- Learning about map files
- Map file challenge
- Understanding layout files
- Layout file challenge
- Sharing data if users don't have ArcGIS Pro
- Exporting to other GIS formats
- Exercise 13B – Exporting data to a shapefile
- Step 1 – Opening the project and verifying the data
- Step 2 – Creating a new map and adding the shapefile as a layer
- Step 3 – Applying symbology using a layer file
- Exporting data to non-GIS formats
- Exporting maps and layouts
- Exporting tables
- Sharing content with those not on your network
- Learning about the layer package
- Exercise 13C – Creating a layer package
- Step 1 – Creating the layer package
- Step 2 – Testing the package
- Understanding map packages
- Map package challenge
- Learning about project packages
- Project package challenge
- Publishing to ArcGIS Online
- Exercise 13D – Publishing a map to ArcGIS Online
- Step 1 – Optimizing your map
- Step 2 – Publishing a map to ArcGIS Online
- Step 3 – Viewing the new map in ArcGIS Online
- Summary
- Further reading
- Using Arcade Expressions for Labeling and Symbology
- Technical requirements
- Learning about Arcade
- Understanding Arcade syntax
- Understanding the text string syntax
- Inserting comments into expressions
- Adding data from a table
- Defining a variable
- Understanding labeling expressions
- Configuring expressions to label with multiple field values
- Making labels more readable
- Exercise 14A – Creating an Arcade label expression
- Step 1 – Opening your project and reviewing the available data
- Step 2 – Creating a simple label expression
- Understanding symbology expressions
- Creating a symbology expression
- Understanding the common operators
- Exercise 14B – Creating a symbology expression
- Step 1 – Evaluating the Street_Centerlines layer
- Step 2 – Creating a symbology expression
- Summary
- Further reading
- GIS glossary
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