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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 shapefiles using your browser


ArcGIS Online can be used as a repository for GIS data and files. Putting these files up in ArcGIS Online allows you to access the information anywhere you have an internet connection, much like Google Drive or DropBox. It also allows you to use that data to create web maps and share them with others. This can greatly increase the overall flexibility of you GIS by making the data available whenever you need it, and not just when you are back in the office.

If you are going to upload and publish files to ArcGIS Online, some of them may need to be prepared or configured before you upload them. For example, a shapefile must be compressed into a single ZIP file before you are able to publish it to ArcGIS Online. This is because each shapefile actually consists of multiple files. If you remember from Chapter 2, Creating and Storing Data, a single shapefile will consist of a SHP, SHX, and DBF file at a minimum. Additional files such as a PRJ, SBN, and SBX...