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ArcGIS for Desktop Cookbook

By : Daniela C Docan
Book Image

ArcGIS for Desktop Cookbook

By: Daniela C Docan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
ArcGIS for Desktop Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Importing vector data


When you are importing existing vector data in your geodatabase, you have to inspect the following characteristics of your data:

  • Source and data format (for example, internal/external, reliable, supported)

  • Spatial reference (for example, maybe you will need to transform or project the data)

  • Attributes (for example, field data type: short integer, text, date)

  • Corresponding scale of the source data

  • Metadata information (for example, quality of data, access, use and legal constraints)

You have already added data to a file geodatabase:

  • Using Load Data to add a feature class in the Editing features in a geodatabase recipe of Chapter 2, Editing Data

  • Using Import from the ArcCatalog context menu to add a feature class in the Projecting vector data recipe of Chapter 3, Working with CRS

  • Using Load Data and Export from the ArcCatalog context menu to add a DXF file from the external source in the Spatial joining features recipe of Chapter 4, Geoprocessing

Getting ready

In this recipe...