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Getting Started with ArcView

GIS

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ERSI Product line

• MapObjects: Internet Map Server

– (ActiveX)

– Works in Windows Developer environments (e.g. Access, Visual C++, Powerbuilder etc)

• SDE: Spatial Database Engine

– Highly integrated data base manager

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ESRI Product Line

• _Arc/Info:_{Full fledged GIS}

– Thousands of functions

– Command line structure with menu tools – Arc Macro Language (AML)

– Uses INFO relational data base or others – Many existing data sets

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ESRI Product line

• ArcView 3.2

– Spatial Analyst – Network Analyst – Terrain Analyst

– ArcView Internet Map Server

– Support Products e.g. Manuals, CD-ROM • MapObjects: Internet Map Server

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ArcView Extensions

• ArcPress: Output device control • Business Analyst

• Image Analysis

• Internet Map Server • Network Analyst • Spatial Analyst • StreetMap 1.0a

• StreetMap 2000 (GDT Dynamap) • 3D Analyst

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ArcView 3.2 Additions

• General performance enhancements • Shapefile projection utility

• Updated Database Access 2

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ArcView 3.2 Additions (2)

• New data integration utilities

• New sample utilities and extensions

• New and updated "ESRI Data & Maps" (total of five CDs)

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ArcView Components

• _Project:_{collective storage for maps,} charts and tables

• _View:_{display set for geographic data} • _Theme:_{One attribute or data layer,}

part of a display

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ArcView Components (2)

• _Chart:_{“business graphic” display of data} in a table

• _Layout:_{Full set of properties, settings, and} components that generate a specific map

• _Script:_{a program written in ArcView’s} programming language called “Avenue” • _Extension:_{An extra part of ArcView for}

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The WIMP Interface

• Windows: Multiple, scroll, resize, elevator bar

• Icons: Represent windows, tasks, etc. Can use drag and drop, click to activate etc.

• Menus: Pop-up, pull-down, pull-right. Messages

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Windows: The active window

• Projects, views, tables, charts, layout, and scripts all have their own windows • Only one window is “active” at a time • To make a window active, click on it

or select it from the menus

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Help

• Help menu on right of tool bar

• Help topics launches indexed user guide

• How to get help is a guide to help • Toolbar icon of arrow with ? Gives

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File menu

• New project

• Open project (.apr) • Close project

• Save as

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Project menu

• Properties • Customize

• Rename and delete

• Add table INFO, dBASE (.dbf), ASCII

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Graphic data formats

• ArcInfo Coverages

– info directory – multiple files

• ArcView Shape File (.shp) • Many import formats

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