Editing Data with ArcGIS for Desktop

GIS technicians, specialists, and other experienced ArcGIS users who need to create and maintain their organization's geographic data.

Prerequisites

Completion of ArcGIS II: Essential Workflows or equivalent knowledge is required.

• Apply a standard editing workflow to manage updates to your GIS database.
• Efficiently create and edit feature geometry and attributes.
• Solve common data alignment issues.
• Maintain spatial relationships among features using topology.

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Editing workflow

• ArcMap editing environment
• Feature templates
• Snapping
• Creating a new feature
• Editing feature attributes

Preparing to edit

• Setting the data's coordinate system
• Setting editing environment properties
• Georeferencing a background image
• Editor tracking
• Creating feature templates
• Authoring a map for editing
• Share the map as a package

Editing feature geometry

• Digitizing features
• Constructing features relative to other features
• Modifying existing features
• Using map topology

Editing feature attributes

• Managing the Attributes window
• Working with attribute tables
• Field Calculator expressions
• Transferring attributes
• Updating attributes for one feature
• Updating attributes for multiple features at once

Data integration and quality control

• Adding vector data to a geodatabase
• Map topology versus geodatabase topology
• Editing features using geodatabase topology

Data integration and alignment techniques

• Solving data alignment problems
• Advanced editing tools

Sharing and editing

• Sharing options for editing resources
• Creating map and layer packages

Project: Implementing the editing workflow

• Review project data and tasks
• Prepare a map for editing
• Incorporate data stored in other formats into a geodatabase
• Create and edit features
• Solve data alignment issues

Esri will provide the following software to use during class:

• ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop (Standard)