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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

Using the ArcGIS Online geoprocessing services


ArcGIS Online is more than just data and maps. It also contains powerful analysis or geoprocessing tools as well. These tools can allow you to perform analysis that would normally require you to have an extension, such as calculate service areas, determine watersheds, and create elevation profiles.

As mentioned, those types of analysis typically require an extension. For example, to calculate a service area, you would need the Network Analyst extension. However with ArcGIS Pro, you can access this functionality as a ready-to-use tool without an extension. These ready-to-use tools do use credits, and typically more credits than the Infographics tool. The amount of credits used by each tool is determined by a base level for the tool plus the additional options you select that add complexity to the analysis. For example, if you needed to calculate a service area based on a simple driving distance that would use less credits than one that was based...