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Editing in ArcMap
Many times, the data that you need for your analysis will not be ready-made for you. In some cases, you might be the first person interested in some spatial feature that is found only in printed maps, or perhaps you are trying to determine how some not yet built feature might affect the landscape you are interested in. In these cases, you are likely to have to create your own features from scratch. Or, you might need to alter or add to already existing data that may not have been updated recently. If any of these are the case, you will need to be familiar with editing in ArcMap. This tutorial will walk you through the very basic skills you will need to proceed with editing in ArcMap. There are many ways to interact with data in the ArcMap Editing Environment, and this tutorial will introduce you to only the very simplest tools.
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3. In the TreeView of ArcCatalog, browse to the .\Data\Shapefile\ folder of the tutorial dataset.
4. Right-click on the .\Shapefile\ folder and select >New>Shapefile, to open the Create New Shapefile Dialog Box.
5. Name the new shapefile Hydrants_New_Haven_1901. 6. Leave the Feature Type as Point. 7. Click on the Edit button, under the Spatial Reference Description to open the Spatial Reference Properties Dialog. You will use the spatial reference from a shapefile in the tutorial dataset to reference this data. 8. Click on the Import Button to browse to the .\Data\Shapefile\ folder and select the Wall_York_Grove_High_New_Haven_1901 shapefile. 9. Click Add. 10. Click OK to accept the imported Spatial Reference Properties. 11. Click OK to create the new shapefile.
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Tools to focus on the upper right corner of the scanned map image in the map
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7. Click on the D.H. (Double Hydrant) symbol to place a point on it. 8. Click on the Attributes Button to open the Editor Toolbars Attributes Window. 9. Place the cursor in the Value cell for your HYD_TYPE field. Place a value of 2 in the cell, since you have digitized a doublehydrant. 10. Repeat Steps 5-9 for the remainder of the hydrants in the extent of the Wall_York_Grove_High_New_Haven_1901 layer, until you have digitized points and edited the HYD_TYPE field for all of the hydrants (there are 6). Right-click on the layer in the Table of Contents and select Zoom to Layer to zoom to its extent. 11. When you have finished digitizing all 6 hydrants, click Editor>Save Edits on the Editor Toolbar. 12. Save your work.
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6_Editing_In_Arcgis.Doc Page 5 of 8 4. When you have placed the fourth corner vertex, right-click anywhere in the map view and select Finish Sketch. 5. If you do not already have the Attributes Editor open, open it from the Attributes Button on the Editor Toolbar.
6. Use the values shown to the right to fill in the attributes for the Print Shop. 7. Select Editor>Save Edits on the Editor Toolbar to save the new feature and its attributes to the shapefile permanently. 8. Save your work.
4. Using the Edit Tool, click once in the orphan feature to select it. 5. Right-click in the selected feature and select Delete. 6. Select Editor>Save Edits on the Editor Toolbar. 7. Save Your Work.
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3. Close the Snapping Environment Panel. 4. Change the Editing Task: to Cut Polygon Features. 5. Activate the Editing Tool and use it to select the footprint polygon at 250 Grove Street.
6. Activate the Sketch Tool and hover it near the undigitized line in the footprint of 250 Grove Street. Notice how the tool sticks to the lines and vertices of the feature as you come within the snapping tolerance of the line.
7. Use the Sketch Tool to create a new line that splits the feature between the two sections shown in the reference image.
8. When you have placed the second vertex of the line, right-click and select Finish Sketch. Note that the drawing flashes a little bit when you do this. ArcMap has just Split the polygon into two features with identical attributes. 9. Use the Editor Tool to select the smaller of the two polygons that you just created. 10. Open the Attributes Panel, if it is not already open, and change the values of the polygon as shown on above. 11. Go to Editor>Save Edits. 12. Save your work.
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