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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

Exporting tabular data to an Excel spreadsheet


Many times, the people we work with are not GIS professionals or do not have access to GIS software. They may request data in another format. One of the most commonly requested formats is a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets are something just about everyone with a computer can work with. They can run calculations, summarize data, create graphs, and more.

While you cannot export the spatial data to a spreadsheet, ArcGIS Pro will allow you to export tabular data to a spreadsheet-compatible format. This includes Microsoft Excel XLS, XLSX, and CSV files. You are able to export attribute and stand-alone database tables to spreadsheets with ArcGIS Pro. As with most other operations, there is more than one way to do it.

In this recipe, you will learn two different methods for converting tables to spreadsheet compatible formats. The roads superintendent has asked you to provide him with a copy of the street sign inventory you have been working on so he can get...