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Introduction
About ArcGIS 2
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Introduction
About ArcGIS
ArcGIS is a geographic information system (GIS) for working with maps and geographic information.
It is used for: creating and using maps; compiling geographic data; analyzing mapped information;
sharing and discovering geographic information; using maps and geographic information in a range of
applications; and managing geographic information in a database.
The system provides an infrastructure for making maps and geographic information available throughout
an organization, across a community, and openly on the Web.
ArcGIS provides a scalable framework for implementing GIS for a single user or many users on
desktops, in servers, over the web, and the field. ArcGIS is and integrated collection of GIS software
products for building a complete GIS. It consists of a number of frameworks for deploying GIS:
ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Engine, Server GIS and Mobile GIS.
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Figure 1.ArcMap Interface; Table of Contents (left red box) and Catalog (right red box)
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c. To see the full layer extent, click the Full Extent icon ( ) from the Map Navigation toolbar.
d. Add other vectors by navigating in the Catalog window. Locate the Activity 2 folder. Expand the
folder by clicking the plus (+) sign before the folder and expand the OSM Maps i.e places.shp,
points.shp, roads.shp, railways.shp, and waterways.shp one at a time into the main window.
(Hint: to view the Catalog window, go to Menu Bar and click Windows > Catalog)
e. Add the remaining vectors by dragging building.shp, landuse.shp and natural.shp from the folder
into the ArcMap Main window. See figure 3 for sample Map view after loading all the vectors.
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b. Use the Zoom In, Zoom Out, and Pan Map tools to move around the map, and the Full Extent
tool to go back to the full view. Zoom In to Iligan City again after trying with these tools.
c. Try also using the mouse wheel to Zoom In and Out the Map and long pressing the mouse wheel
and drag to Pan the map.
d. Group all the polygon features, all the point features and all the line features by Right-Clicking
Layers in the Table of Contents and select New Group Layer. Rename the added group to “Polygon”.
e. Click and drag the existing polygon features under the Polygon group.
f. Do the same for “Points” and “Lines” group. See figure 4 for sample output.
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Figure 5. Setting the Map Units and Projection
b. A new window for Data Frame Properties will pop up. Click the Coordinate System tab and
select WGS 1984 UTM Zone 51N to set the map projection. And click General tab and select
Meters in the Units area to set the map units. (see figure 6)
(Hint: locate WGS 1984 UTM ZONE 51N thru Projected Coordinate Systems > UTM >WGS
1984 > Northern Hemisphere and select WGS 1984 UTM ZONE 51N)
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2.4 Vector Properties
a. Click on the box before the Points and Lines group to make the features under these groups
invisible from the Main window.
b. Right-click Buildings under the Polygon group then choose Properties. The Layer Properties
window will appear.
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c. Navigate to the Philippines folder under Activity 3 folder. Choose Kitanglad and click Add.
The Kitanglad raster layer will appear in the Layers panel and should be visible in the Main
window.
d. Zoom In and Zoom Out on the image and compare the difference with the layers on Activity 2.
a. Right click on Kitanglad raster layer then choose Properties. The Layer Properties window will
appear.
b. Click on Symbology tab and explore on the Band Rendering and Stretch Types and compare the
difference. (See figure 8)
c. Click also on Display Tab and explore on Resampling and compare.
d. Save your project in the Activity 3 folder and name it „Activity3_(your surname)‟.
e. Close the project.
b. Click on Add Data icon ( ) and navigate to the Philippines folder under Activity 4 folder.
Choose Kitanglad and click Add. The Kitanglad raster layer will appear in the Table of
Contents window and be visible in the Main window.
c. Add the Municities.shp and Roads.shp vectors.
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d. Notice that 3 layers should be visible in the Table of Contents and in the Main window.
e. Check if the Projections of each layer are the same by checking in the Properties.
(Hint: Right click on the layer and select Properties).
f. Change the Symbol of the MuniCities layer to Hollow by opening the Layer Properties >
Symbology. (see figure 9)
g. Click OK.
a. In the Table of Contents window, right-click on Kitanglad and select on Zoom to Layer.
b. Locate the Activity 4 folder from the Catalog window.
(Hint: From the Menu Bar, click Windows and select Catalog)
c. Right click Activity 4 folder, hover to New and select Shapefile... And the Create a New
Shapefile window will appear.
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Figure 10. Creating a New Shapefile (left); Setting the Name, Feature
Type and Coordinate Systems (right)
d. In the Create a New Shapefile window:
Write “foo” as the name
Select Polygon on Feature Type
Click Edit to set the Map Projection to WGS 1984 UTM ZONE 51N
(Hint: locate WGS 1984 UTM ZONE 51N thru Projected Coordinate Systems > UTM >
WGS 1984 > Northern Hemisphere and select WGS 1984 UTM ZONE 51N)
Click OK
e. Foo layer should now be viewed in the Table of Contents and Main window.
f. Change the symbology of foo according to your preferences.
4.3 Digitizing
a. Right click the foo layer in the Table of Contents window.
b. Hover to Edit Features and Click on Start Editing. If the Start Editing window appears, click
Continue.
c. From the Editor tool bar, click the Create feature icon ( ). The cursor should change to a
Crosshair if hovered to the Main window.
(Hint: to view the Editor toolbar, from the Menu bar Click Customize > Toolbars > tick Editor)
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d. Trace the Kitanglad Boundary by pointing and clicking the cursor to one of the edges of the
Kitanglad boundary to add a vertex.
e. Finish the digitizing by adding more vertices.
f. Right click on last vertex and select Finish Sketch to close the polygon.
g. Foo layer now contains a single polygon. Your output should be similar to figure 10.
h. From the Editor toolbar, Click Editor and select Save Edits to save your edits.
i. Explore on some of the digitizing tools to improve the quality of your layer.
j. To stop editing, Click Editor from the Editor toolbar and selectStop Editing.
f. Save your project in the Activity 4 folder and name it „Activity4_(your surname)‟.
f. For the Input raster, click the browse icon ( ) and select the Kitanglad raster from Activity 4.
g. For the Output Extent, browse and select the foo shapefile from Activity 4.
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h. Tick Use Input Features for Clipping Geometry to clip the raster according to the output extent.
i. In the Output file, browse and navigate on Activity 5 folder.
j. Name the output file as Ki_clip and click Save. (see figure 11)
Figure 11. Clipping the Kitanglad boundary using the foo shapefile
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Figure 12. Clipped Kitanglad boundary using the foo shapefile
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Figure 13. Clipped Kitanglad boundary, Municities and Roads using the
foo shapefile
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When Table Options is clicked a number of possible actions can be
selected (fig. 14). Included in these additional options are Add
Field, Joins and Relates, Create Graphs, Export etc.
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d. A column named Area should be added in the attribute table.
e. To compute the area for each polygon of kiMu_clip, enable Start Editing.
(Hint: from the Editor toolbar click Editor > Start Editing or you can right-click kiMu_clip from
the Table of Contents and select Editing Features > Start Editing)
f. Right-click Area from the attribute table and select Calculate Geometry. The Calculate Geometry
window should appear.
g. In the Calculate Geometry window, select :
Property : Area
Coordinate system: PCS: WGS 1984 UTM Zone 51N
Units: Square Meters [sq m]
h. Click OK. The areas of each polygon should be automatically calculated.
i. Save your project in Activity 6 folder and name it „Activity6_(your surname)‟.
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i. Write „Kitanglad boundary‟ under the Remarks column for all the features of kiMu_clip.
j. Save and Stop the editing session. Your attribute table should be similar to figure 17.
Activity 7 – Composer
7.1 Setting the MapLayout
a. Open your Activity 6 ArcGIS project.
b. From the table of Contents, RenamekiRo_clip to Roads and kiMu_clip to Municipal Boundary.
c. Save as the project and name it „Activity7_(your surname)‟.
d. From the Menu bar, Click View > Layout View. The display in the Main window should change
similar to a word document.
e. You can change the page layout (portrait or landscape) by clicking File > Page and Print Set-up.
The Page and Print Setup window should appear.
f. Under the Map Page Size, select A4 and Landscape as the page size and orientation respectively.
g. Click OK.
Figure 18. Accessing Page and Print Setup from the Menu Bar (left).
Page and Print Setup window (right)
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7.2 Layout Window
a. Notice that the map from the main window is drawn in the layout window. See figure 19.
Figure 19. Accessing Page and Print Setup from the Menu Bar (left).
Page and Print Setup window (right)
b. Switch to Data View and click Full Extent to see map full extent.
c. Move map to the left using the Pan tool (or holding down the mouse wheel) until only half of the
map is seen in the window.
d. Switch back to Layout View. Notice how the map is displayed. See Figure 20.
Figure 20. Moving the map to the left in Data View (left) causes a
shift to the left in layout view (right)
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e. Explore the Layout window with the Navigation tools and Layout tools.
(Hint: tools are found in Customize > Tools. Navigation tools is Tools and Layout tools is
Layout)
Figure 21. Layout View with two Frames; Kitanglad Boundary (left) and Philippine
Boundary (right)
f. Switch to Data View. Notice that the Philippine Boundary is not seen even it‟s ticked. To see or
edit the Philippine boundary, right-click the Philippine Boundary layer in the Table of Contents
and select Activate. The Philippine Boundary should then be visible.
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Figure 21. Layout View with two Frames; Kitanglad Boundary (left) and Philippine
Boundary (right)
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e. For the Legend:
Make sure to Activate first the Kitanglad Boundary from the Table of Contents.
(Hint: right-click Kitanglad Boundary from the table of contents and select Activate)
Insert > Legend.
Select the files you want to Legendize and click . Click Next and choose the styles
according to your preferences and Finish. See figure 22.