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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

Merging multiple shapefiles into a single geodatabase feature class


You now know how to convert a single shapefile into an individual geodatabase feature class. What if you have several shapefiles that you need to merge into a single common geodatabase feature class? Can you do that in ArcGIS Pro?

Of course you can. This is not an uncommon workflow. You often need to combine multiple shapefiles or geodatabase feature classes into a single feature class. Combining multiple sources into a single one makes working with the data easier. For example, you are working on a regional transportation study and you receive road data from three counties. If you wish to analyze traffic flow or calculate the total length of roads by type for the region, it would be much easier to do if all the data was in a single feature class. Maybe you are responsible for maintaining data for a 911 center that services both the city and county. The city and county assign addresses for new construction and update the...