Scientific Notation, Numerical Significance, Accuracy, and Precision

Looking at the Other Capabilities of the Options Menu

Deriving Feature Classes by Selecting Attributes: Extraction

Other Polygon Spatial Joins: Intersect and Identity

Rasters with Floating-Point Values

Setting the General and Raster Environment

Determining Where Something Is: Latitude and Longitude

The Toolbars and the Status Bar

Sets of Spatial Data: The Database

A Potpourri of Types of Geographic Data

Thoughts on Different Types of Products

A Summary of the Graphic Indicators

Fundamental Bases of Geographic Data Mode

Labeling Features with Selected Attributes

What Time Is It?

Getting Started

Precision vs. Accuracy

Selecting Features (and, Thereby, Records)

The Getrich Saga

What Is Raster Storage and Processing Good For?

Converting Features to Rasters

Geodesy, Coordinate Systems, Geographic Projections, and Scale

An Optional Step

Spatial Databases: Inherent Difficulties

Displaying Layers from Vector-Based Datasets

Don’t Ignore Character-Based Information

Tinkering with the Map—Scale Bars

The Raster Data Model

Computers and Inexact Computation

Loading an Image File as a Layer in ArcMap

Basic Statistics

Quick Selection of Features

Deriving Information by Combining Tables

Rasters and Features

Creating Rasters with Linear Features

Projected Coordinate Systems

Exploring Basic GIS Data Storage Models

Information Systems

Housekeeping: Saving and Restoring a Map

Don’t Hesitate to Sort Information

Legends

Vector Data Model

Creating a New Topology

Putting Values into Classes

Selecting by Location

Overlaying the Feature Classes

Rasters: Input, Computation, and Output

Buffering with Spatial Analyst (Maybe)

Geographic vs. Projected Coordinates: A Comparison

Copying Data over to Your Personal Folder

Uses for a Geographic Information System

Selecting: Both Map Data and Attribute Data

Consider Hard Copy

Layer Files

A Multiplicity of “Storadigms”

Specifying Which Feature Moves When Features Are Adjusted: Rank

Adding Line Features to a Shapefile by Using the Editing Facility in ArcMap

Measurement Scales

Reviewing and Understanding Actions on the Table of Contents

Create a Python Script from the Gold Model

Where Raster Processing Shines: Cost Incurred Traveling over a Distance

Buffering—Plan B

Two Projected Coordinate Systems: UTM and State Plane

Examining the Table

Using the Measure Tool and the Identify Tool

Consider Balance in Product Content

Layer Packages

Vector-Based Geographic Datasets—Logical Construction

Topology Rules

Converting a Shapefile to a Geodatabse Feature Class and Giving It Real-World Coordinates

Layers and the Data Frames

Modify the Python Script from the Gold Model

Proximity Calculation with Rasters

Reclassifying the Data

Physical Dimensionality

Deriving Information from the Table

County Boundaries and Polygons