ArcGIS Desktop part 1 (displaying map data) Video Lecture | Way to Learning GIS and ArcGIS - Data & Analytics

welcome everyone to this new tutorial
and in this and in the following ones I
will concentrate on a book called
getting to know arcgis desktop it was
released by the asteroid press and i
think you can order it online or maybe
you will find it in your library with
the data CD as well so you should go
through the exercises one and two very
easily because well they are just all
think 21 pages and so we will start with
page number 22 in this exercise is
called 3a you will get to know how to
edit layers very easily you will change
the order of your layers in your data so
what is layer it's more or less just in
a layer of information which can be
presented by a Resta or shapefile a
roster file or shapefile so we will
start with first exercise there for file
open we are in the arcgis tutorial and
check the number three zero three so we
will start now with I think four layers
it just takes takes some time
so this is area we are talking about
it's a world map and there are
coordinates behind that you can easily
find out which coordinate system belongs
to that arm belongs to that exercise or
to that on set of layers so go to
properties in layers now where there is
world plate curry well quite unknown I
don't know that as well so we will stick
with that but first of all as you may
know if you're changing the visibility
of the layers there's a thing called
flag path which is a line shape file
represented by that line and you will
have something like cities it's a point
shapefile represented by points if you
see if you're using the flight path and
it's located over the cities um you'll
have a problem because well you cannot
see the cities quite well so it's often
often used or useful to change the
location of points in the up part of
your project then layers with lines and
after that are polygons which is in this
case countries and after polygons use
the rest files so there this critical is
also I think a polygon shapefile you can
easily find out that properties general
source selection symbology well it is a
point a file you can go to lake which is
quite not that good yeah it's a messy so
we can also change it like this
use holo once again fill color outline
color is black that's fine for the
moment so this is project we are talking
about and first of all this is a root um
miss Earhart took with them
with her plane I think so what we will
do now we will change a layers name
which is layer name cities and you go to
the properties of that layer there you
have something called channel and we
will fill it out with a different name
we say cities her heart visit it what
everything great in upper cases so say
ok and what you can find out is now
there's a name for each city so this is
Darwin and she was stopping probably in
there and she was flying over Miami as
well so then you can easily use the zoom
function they just called zoom in zoom
out then you have a fixed zoom in fixed
zoom out and you can adjust the
extensors go to the back to the previous
extent until the lawn next X 10 so we
will zoom in now
go here into detail and going back to
that change to the last extent so once
again then there's this function or this
symbol that let's say go to the full
extent of project by pressing that every
layer is visible so this is once for it
so I think we are nearly through that
chapter there's one more function which
is called the pan function can you use
that by dragging around your working
area so let's go into detail back once
more go there here we are
so what we will do now is we will use
the labeling function which is also
represented in the properties but you
can also just use that one label
features now you have the every cities
name presented but what you can do as
well you can identify one feature by the
identify
gen represented by this blue spot and
with the eye in the middle so go there
you have cities around visited which is
the city name is Gao and it's a capital
nope it's not a capital what do you have
a precipitation value and another
arrival and the departure date for that
so that's it what can we do next I think
that's that's it for the moment for the
project or for the exercise 3a we'll go
back to the full extent there you are so
everything is fine in the moment we will
now save it so fall safe we will just
save the project so the current extent
and the current changes of
representation of day of the shapefiles
and so on is saved so far oh no we have
saved it as an original one we will
choose save as so this is now result
something like that so save it there we
are finished with exercise 3a