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PRACTICAL 1
OBJECTIVES:
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examine some feature layers and their organization

identify relationships between geographic features
associate descriptive information with a layer and specific features
select geographic features based on certain conditions

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
1. How the spatial data is organized based on the theme it represents.
2. How the Geographic data relates to its descriptive components by
exploring tables pertaining to the features.
3. The concepts of topology (i.e. how spatial features relate to one another).
4. To become familiar with how data is displayed and queried, and
how meaningful output is created.

STEPS :
EXAMINE SOME FEATURE LAYERS AND THEIR ORGANIZATION
1. Launch the ArcMap application.

Double-click shortcut for ArcMap

on your desktop, or click
Start > Programs > ArcGIS > ArcMap.
As the ArcMAP startup dialog appear, confirm or click A new
empty map, then OK.

2. Examine some feature layers and their organization.

Click Open File > My Computer >Local Disk D > igis1 > Map
documents > sampler.mxd; (subject to change).

IDENTIFY RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES

3. Identify relationships between geographic features.
Zoom in on the area around ESRI building, or on the menu bar,
click View > Bookmarks > ESRI.

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ASSOCIATE DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION WITH A LAYER AND SPESIFIC

FEATURES
4. Associate descriptive information with a Layer.
On the menu bar, click View > Bookmarks > original
In the Table of Content, right-click Street > click Open Attribute
Table.
5. Identify specific features

Click the Identify features button

on the Tools toolbars (If the
icon do not appear, click on View > Toolbar > Identify features
button)
Position the pointer over the center of the eastern most donut shop
(the one on the right-hand side of the map), then click it.

SELECT GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES BASED ON CERTAIN CONDITIONS

6. Select geographic features based on certain conditions.
a) For Street Layer
Turn off all layers in the Table of Contents except for Street.
On the menu bar, click Selection > Select By Attributes
Choose the Street layer and formulate an expression using the
attribute STR_NAME (for street name) to be equal to
TENNESSEE as shown in the figure below.

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Hint:
i. For Layer, click Street
ii. For Fields, double-click STR_NAME
iii. Click the = button from the list of operators
iv. For Unique values, double-click TENNESSEE
v. Click Apply > OK
After finished, on the menu bar, click selection > Clear Selected
Features.

b) For Donut Layer

In the Table of Contents, check the box of Donut layer to turn it on
On the menu bar, click Selection > Select by Location
In the Select by Location dialog, make sure your setting reflects
for the donut shops to be within 1000 meters (hint: set up the
buffer zone within 1000 m).
Click Apply > OK

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If necessary, refresh the display, by clicking the Refresh button at

the bottom of the ArcMap display area.

Practical Highlights:
1. Identify how many Layers in the Table of Contents and state in what
spatial features that represents by each layer
2. To examine the spatial relationships between features in a map, by using
visually How does spatial relationship can help you to identify relationship
for different features/layers? Explain with some examples.
3. To associate descriptive information with a layer;
*Briefly describe the information found in the Attribute Table. (Hint: types
of Class Description, relationship between Street ID and Address).
*Print-screen the Attributes Table for Street layer.
*Print-screen the Attribute Table for Donut layer.
*How many records are present in the Donut layer attribute table?
*How does the attributes can help you to identify specific request (i.e.,
location)?

4. Identify individual features, (i.e., list attributes contain to only a single

feature).
5. You will identify all donut shops that are within 1,000 meters of Interstate
10. In this task, repeat step (6a) by selecting street of Interstate 10, or I 10.
In the display area, observe that I 10 is highlighted, indicating the selected
segments making up Interstate 10. By refer to step (6b), find the donut shops
that are within 1000 meters of this selected street.