Creating New Spatial Data

In Chapter 4, Editing Existing Spatial Features, you learned about various methods and tools in ArcGIS Pro that you can use to update or change existing features stored in your GIS. Those are extremely useful as you work to keep your data current to reflect changes to those existing features. However, you will often encounter situations where you need to add completely new features to your GIS.

ArcGIS Pro contains a host of tools you can use to create new features. The tools you can use will depend on several things. The first is your license level. As mentioned in Chapter 4, the license level (Basic, Standard, or Advanced) you use will determine what tools you can access and – in some cases –what those tools you can access do. The second thing that will impact which tools you can use to create new features is the type of features you are creating. There are different tools to create points versus lines versus polygons. Your data storage format...