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Learning ArcGIS Pro 2 - Second Edition

By : Tripp Corbin GISP
Book Image

Learning ArcGIS Pro 2 - Second Edition

By: Tripp Corbin GISP

Overview of this book

Armed with powerful tools to visualize, maintain, and analyze data, ArcGIS Pro 2 is Esri's newest desktop geographic information system (GIS) application that uses the modern ribbon interface and a 64-bit processor to make using GIS faster and more efficient. This second edition of Learning ArcGIS Pro will show you how you can use this powerful desktop GIS application to create maps, perform spatial analysis, and maintain data. The book begins by showing you how to install ArcGIS and listing the software and hardware prerequisites. You’ll then understand the concept of named user licensing and learn how to navigate the new ribbon interface to leverage the power of ArcGIS Pro for managing geospatial data. Once you’ve got to grips with the new interface, you’ll build your first GIS project and understand how to use the different project resources available. The book shows you how to create 2D and 3D maps by adding layers and setting and managing the symbology and labeling. You’ll also discover how to use the analysis tool to visualize geospatial data. In later chapters, you’ll be introduced to Arcade, the new lightweight expression language for ArcGIS, and then advance to creating complex labels using Arcade expressions. Finally, you'll use Python scripts to automate and standardize tasks and models in ArcGIS Pro. By the end of this ArcGIS Pro book, you’ll have developed the core skills needed for using ArcGIS Pro 2.x competently.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Section 1: Introducing and Navigating ArcGIS Pro
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Section 2: Visualizing, Maintaining, and Analyzing Data
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Section 3: Sharing Data and Automating processes
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GIS glossary

Running a model

You can run the entire model and the processes in the ready to run state or just a single process in the model. In this section, you will explore the different ways you can run a model you create in ModelBuilder.

If you wish to run the entire model, the easiest way to do that is simply double-click on it, from the toolbox it is stored in. This will run all processes in the model that are in the ready to run or have been run state. If you have allowed the users to provide values for some of the variables within the model, they will be prompted to enter those before the model is run.

Otherwise, if you did not allow for user input, the model will just indicate that there are no parameters in the geoprocessing window and all you need to do is click the Run button. You will learn how to make a model interactive a little later in this chapter.

You can also choose to run the model or processes in the model from the ModelBuilder window. Clicking...