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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

Creating a layer using a CSV file


Now that you have uploaded a shapefile and created a feature layer based on the shapefile, let’s look at a CSV file. You can upload a CSV or TXT file to your content just as you did the shapefile. Because it is a single file, there is no need to ZIP it before you upload it to your ArcGIS Online content.

When you add a CSV file to your content, it is typically used in one of two ways. The first is just to allow others to download the file or to use it as a standalone table. The file is not used to create a layer in a map or scene. In that case, you do not need to worry about formatting.

However, if you want to create a layer in a map or scene from the data in the CSV file, it will need to be formatted to support that operation. Here are the formatting requirements for a CSV file if you want to use it to create a layer. This also applies to a TXT file:

  • The first line must contain column headers, not feature values
  • The first line must include identifiers for two...