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ArcGIS Pro 2.x Cookbook

By : Tripp Corbin GISP
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ArcGIS Pro 2.x Cookbook

By: Tripp Corbin GISP

Overview of this book

ArcGIS is Esri's catalog of GIS applications with powerful tools for visualizing, maintaining, and analyzing data. ArcGIS makes use of the modern ribbon interface and 64-bit processing to increase the speed and efficiency of using GIS. It allows users to create amazing maps in both 2D and 3D quickly and easily. If you want to gain a thorough understanding of the various data formats that can be used in ArcGIS Pro and shared via ArcGIS Online, then this book is for you. Beginning with a refresher on ArcGIS Pro and how to work with projects, this book will quickly take you through recipes about using various data formats supported by the tool. You will learn the limits of each format, such as Shapefiles, Geodatabase, and CAD files, and learn how to link tables from outside sources to existing GIS data to expand the amount of data that can be used in ArcGIS. You'll learn methods for editing 2D and 3D data using ArcGIS Pro and how topology can be used to ensure data integrity. Lastly the book will show you how data and maps can be shared via ArcGIS Online and used with web and mobile applications.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Publishing layer packages using ArcGIS Pro


You have now experienced how you are able to publish files to ArcGIS Online. This includes GIS files such as shapefiles, and non-GIS files such as CSV files. So far, you have done this without using ArcGIS Pro. However, you can publish content to ArcGIS Online directly from ArcGIS Pro.

ArcGIS Pro can not only use content which has been published to ArcGIS Online, but it can also be used to author content. Similar to how you published the shapefile to ArcGIS Online, you can publish a layer from a map in ArcGIS Pro as a layer package. The layer package will contain all the layer property settings you configure in ArcGIS Pro, along with the data. The data referenced by the layer can be stored in various formats, including geodatabase feature classes, shapefiles, spreadsheets, and more. This is useful when you need to share information with someone that is not on your network or that does not have direct access to your GIS data.

In this recipe, you will...