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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 web layers using ArcGIS Pro


Publishing layer packages to ArcGIS Online is extremely useful if you need to share data with someone that needs to have access to the entire dataset and to work on a copy of the data. This allows them to run different scenarios, perform different analyses, and make changes to the data without actually impacting the data sharing through ArcGIS Online. What if you wanted to share a layer to ArcGIS Online that you wanted included in a web map, which users would access through the ArcGIS Online Web Map Viewer, or other custom web or mobile applications? A layer package would not allow that. What you need is a web layer.

Web layers allow you to publish a single layer so that it may be added to a web map. You add the layer using the same process you used in Chapter 12, Introducing ArcGIS Online, and the Creating a simple web map in ArcGIS Online recipe. Once added to a web map, you can then visualize it using the Web Map Viewer application or even incorporate...