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ArcGIS is Esri's catalog of GIS applications with powerful tools for visualizing, maintaining, and analyzing data. ArcGIS makes use of the modern ribbon interface and 64-bit processing to increase the speed and efficiency of using GIS. It allows users to create amazing maps in both 2D and 3D quickly and easily.

If you want to gain a thorough understanding of the various data formats that can be used in ArcGIS Pro and shared via ArcGIS Online, then this book is for you.

Beginning with a refresher on ArcGIS Pro and how to work with projects, this book will quickly take you through recipes about using various data formats supported by the tool. You will learn the limits of each format, such as Shapefiles, Geodatabase, and CAD files, and learn how to link tables from outside sources to existing GIS data to expand the amount of data that can be used in ArcGIS. You'll learn methods for editing 2D and 3D data using ArcGIS Pro and how topology can be used to ensure data integrity. Lastly the book will show you how data and maps can be shared via ArcGIS Online and used with web and mobile applications.

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ArcGIS Pro 2.x Cookbook

Create, manage, and share geographic maps, data, and analytical models using ArcGIS Pro

Tripp Corbin, GISP

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

ArcGIS Pro 2.x Cookbook

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About the author

Tripp Corbin, GISP has over 20 years of surveying, mapping, and GIS-related experience, and he is recognized as a geospatial industry leader with expertise in a variety of geospatial software packages, including Esri, Autodesk, and Trimble products. His experience is backed by multiple industry certifications—he is a Certified GIS Professional (GISP), Esri Certified Enterprise System Design Associate, and Desktop Professional among others.

I want to thank my wife, Polly, for all her support while writing this book. She was so understanding about all the weekends and events I had to miss to get it finished. I also want to thank everybody on the various GIS List Servers who helped me when I ran into issues to determine if they were bugs or something I was just doing wrong. Lastly, thanks to everyone at eGIS Associates who helped take up the slack as I worked on this book.

About the reviewer

Timothy J. Gaunt, GISP, has over 10 years of experience in information technology with a focus on networking, communications, enterprise software deployment, and server maintenance. Over the years, he has installed and configured Windows Server, ArcGIS, Microsoft SQL Server, and APIs for customizing web and mobile GIS applications. He has also undertaken development with Windows PowerShell, Python, HTML, Visual Basic, security system configuration, order system overhauls, and website creation and design. Gaunt has been working with eGIS Associates as an Enterprise IT and GIS specialist since 2012.

The completion of this undertaking would not have been possible without the support and encouragement from my loving wife, Brittany. I would also like to thank Dr. J. B. Sharma of the University of North GA, my colleagues at JCWSA and eGIS Associates, and all my friends and family who have provided guidance and training over the years.

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ArcGIS Pro 2.x Cookbook

Dedication

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Contributors

About the author

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Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

To get the most out of this book

Download the example code files

Download the color images

Conventions used

Sections

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Preface

ArcGIS Pro is Esri's newest desktop GIS application with powerful tools for visualizing, maintaining, and analyzing data. ArcGIS Pro makes use of the modern ribbon interface and 64-bit processing to increase the speed and efficiency of GIS. It allows users to create amazing maps in both 2D and 3D quickly and easily.

If you want to gain a thorough understanding of how ArcGIS Pro can be used to perform various types of geospatial analysis, how to work with various data formats, and how to share your ArcGIS Pro results via ArcGIS Online, then this book is for you.

Beginning with a refresher on ArcGIS Pro and how to work with projects, this book will quickly take you through recipes on using various data formats supported within the application. You will learn the limits of each format such as Shapefiles, Geodatabase, and CAD files, and see how to convert the data to the format that best suites your needs. Next, you will learn how to link tables from outside sources to existing GIS data to expand the amount of data that can be used in ArcGIS Pro. From there, you will dive into ways to edit 2D and 3D data using ArcGIS Pro and understand how topology can be used to ensure data integrity. We will explore different analysis tools that allow us to perform both 2D and 3D analysis. Lastly, the book will show how data and maps can be shared via ArcGIS Online and used with web and mobile applications. This book will also introduce you to ArcGIS Arcade, Esri's new expression language, which is supported across the entire ArcGIS platform.

Who this book is for

If you have limited experience with ArcGIS and want to learn more about how ArcGIS Pro works and the powerful tools for data maintenance, analysis, and sharing it contains, this is the book for you. It is also a great resource for those migrating from ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap and ArcCatalog) to ArcGIS Pro.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, ArcGIS Pro Capabilities and Terminology, reviews basic ArcGIS Pro functionality and terms.

Chapter 2, Creating and Storing Data, examines ArcGIS Pro's ability to use different storage data formats.

Chapter 3, Linking Data together, explains how to link external data to your GIS for use in analysis and display.

Chapter 4, Editing Spatial and Tabular Data, explores various tools for creating and editing new features in your GIS databases.

Chapter 5, Validating and Editing Data with Topologies, shows how to use topologies to improve the accuracy of your data and increase editing efficiency.

Chapter 6, Projections and Coordinate System Basics, explains the importance of coordinate systems in GIS and how to move your data from one to another.

Chapter 7, Converting Data, steps you through various methods you can use to convert GIS data from one storage format to another.

Chapter 8, Proximity Analysis, explores different tools for determining how far or near features in a map are from one another.

Chapter 9, Spatial Statistics and Hot Spots, shows how you can locate clusters, spot patterns, and determine the spatial center of a collection of features.

Chapter 10, 3D Maps and 3D Analyst, shows how you can use ArcGIS Pro and the 3D analyst extension to perform 3D analysis such as calculating sight lines and volumes.

Chapter 11, Introducing Arcade, shows how you can create labeling and symbology expressions using the new Arcade expression language.

Chapter 12, Introducing ArcGIS Online, steps you through connecting to your ArcGIS Online account and how to access content that others have published to create a web map.

Chapter 13, Publishing Your Own Content to ArcGIS Online, takes you through the process of publishing your own content to ArcGIS Online so that others in your organization can access it.

Chapter 14, Creating Web Apps Using ArcGIS Online, shows you how you can create your own web GIS applications without having to be a programmer.

To get the most out of this book

This book assumes that the reader has at least some knowledge of ArcGIS Pro. It is recommended that you have read and worked through the exercises in the

Learning ArcGIS Pro

book by Packt Publishing or have previous real-world experience using ArcGIS Pro or ArcMap.

You will need to have ArcGIS Pro 2.1 or later installed with a Standard or higher license along with a license for the 3D Analyst extension for ArcGIS Pro in order to complete all the recipes in this book. If you are limited to a basic license or don't have a 3D Analyst license, you will still be able to complete the majority of the recipes, just not all of them.

You will need a username and a login password for ArcGIS Online with at least Publisher-level permissions.

You will need to download and install the sample data files as instructed in the

Download the example code files

section.

If you do not have a license for ArcGIS Pro, 3D Analyst extension, or ArcGIS Online, you can request a trial license from Esri at

http://www.esri.com/arcgis/trial

Download the example code files

You can download the example code files for this book from your account at www.packtpub.com. If you purchased this book elsewhere, you can visit www.packtpub.com/support and register to have the files emailed directly to you.

You can download the code files by following these steps:

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We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/ArcGISPro2.xCookbook_ColorImages.pdf.

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Navigate to C:\Student\ArcGISProCookbook\Chapter2\RasterVector by clicking on C:\ in the area on the left."

A block of code is set as follows:

if (cond=="Good") { return "<CLR green='255'>"+name+"</CLR>" }if (cond=="Fair") { return name }else { return "<BOL><CLR red='255'>"+name+"</CLR></BOL>" }

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Tips and tricks appear like this.

Sections

In this book, you will find several headings that appear frequently (Getting ready, How to do it..., How it works..., There's more..., and See also).

To give clear instructions on how to complete a recipe, use these sections as follows:

Getting ready

This section tells you what to expect in the recipe and describes how to set up any software or any preliminary settings required for the recipe.

How to do it…

This section contains the steps required to follow the recipe.

How it works…

This section usually consists of a detailed explanation of what happened in the previous section.

There's more…

This section consists of additional information about the recipe in order to make you more knowledgeable about the recipe.

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ArcGIS Pro Capabilities and Terminology

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Determining whether your computer can run ArcGIS Pro

Determining your ArcGIS Pro license level

Opening an existing ArcGIS Pro project

Opening and navigating a map

Adding and configuring layers

Creating a project

Introduction

ArcGIS Pro represents a huge step forward in Desktop GIS. This new 64-bit solution allows GIS Professionals to take full advantage of modern computer hardware, which brings increased performance and capability that has not been available for the desktop. It also has a brand new modern ribbon interface. This is completely different from the toolbar-based interface we have become accustomed to in ArcMap or ArcCatalog. While more intuitive for completely new users, it can be a bit challenging for existing ArcGIS Desktop users.

In this chapter, you will begin exploring ArcGIS Pro. You will first determine whether your computer has the capability to run this powerful software. Then you will determine which license levels are available to you. This is important as it will impact your ability to complete some of the recipes in this book.

You will then move on to working in ArcGIS Pro. You will start by learning how to open an existing ArcGIS Pro project. Then you will open and navigate a map. From there, you will learn methods for adding new layers and configuring some of their properties.

Finally, you will learn how to create a new project from the beginning. This will include adding new maps, and importing ArcMap map documents.

Determining whether your computer can run ArcGIS Pro

Unlike the 32-bit ArcMap and ArcCatalog applications, ArcGIS Pro supports hyperthreading (use of multiple core processors), graphics processing units, and more than 4 GB of RAM. This also means ArcGIS Pro requires more computer resources to run properly.

The minimum requirements for ArcGIS Pro 2.1 are:

Windows 64-bit OS:

Windows 7, 8.1, or 10

Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, or 2016

Hyperthreaded dual core processor

4 GB RAM

32 GB hard drive space

2 GB video memory

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.1

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11

DirectX 11

OpenGL 3.3

Shader Model 4.1

Pixel Shader 4.0

Vertex Shader 4.0

Keep in mind that these are the minimum requirements. The more hardware the better where ArcGIS Pro is concerned. In general, I would recommend at least 12 GB of RAM, an i5 dual core processor, and a separate video card with its own GPU and memory. For a complete set of recommended hardware specifications, you may want to look at my other book from Packt Publishing, Learning ArcGIS Pro.

In this recipe, you will learn how to use the system requirements tool to verify whether your computer can run ArcGIS Pro. This is a free tool provided by Esri.

Getting ready

To work through this recipe, you will need to make sure you have access to the internet and sufficient permissions to install software on your computer.

How to do it...

Open your favorite web browser, such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, or Firefox.

Go to

http://pro.arcgis.com

Click the

Get Started

, tab as shown in the following screenshot:

Click the link located in

Review the system requirements

Click on the

Supported Operating Systems

link located on the right-hand side of the page in the

In this topic

box.

Click

Check your computer’s ability to run ArcGIS Pro 2.1

A new tab should open in your browser and take you to the Can You RUN It page powered by System Requirements Lab.

Click the

Can You RUN It

button, as shown here, to download the

Detection.exe

file:

Once the

Detection.exe

file is downloaded, click it to run the file. This executable will check the specifications of your computer and generate a report indicating whether your computer is capable of running ArcGIS Pro.

When the hardware detection application is complete, return to your web browser to see the results. It hopefully will indicate your system passed, similar to the following screenshot:

Notice that you can see whether your system meets the minimum and recommended specifications for running ArcGIS Pro. If your system just meets the minimum specifications, you can expect ArcGIS Pro to run slowly and require the application to be restarted much more frequently.

If your system failed, you will need to upgrade the components or software that the reports indicate are below the required specifications. This might be as simple as updating your drivers or Internet Explorer. It might require you to purchase new hardware if your CPU, RAM, or video card fail to meet the minimum requirements.

If your system meets or exceeds the system requirements, you may download and install ArcGIS Pro. Please refer to the installation instructions located at http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/get-started/install-and-sign-in-to-arcgis-pro.htm.

How it works...

ArcGIS Pro has very specific requirements that must be met in order to run effectively. In this recipe, you downloaded and used the tool provided by Esri to verify whether your system met or exceeded those requirements. This tool checks for both hardware and software dependencies needed to successfully run ArcGIS Pro, and provides you with a detailed report so you know without a doubt whether your computer has the horsepower required.

Determining your ArcGIS Pro license level

ArcGIS Pro has three different license levels: Basic, Standard, and Advanced. The license level determines the level of functionality available to the user. Basic has the least functionality, Advanced has the most, and Standard is somewhere in between.

In general, Basic allows you to visualize GIS data, produce maps, perform simple data edits, and perform basic GIS data analysis. Standard builds on the capabilities of the Basic level, with more advanced editing and data validation tools. Advanced expands the capabilities of both Basic and Standard by adding more data analysis tools. For a complete list of the capabilities of each license level of ArcGIS Pro, go to http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/get-started/license-levels.htm.

It important for you to know what license level you are using so you know what capabilities are available to you. Some recipes in this book will require a Standard or Advanced license. In this recipe, you will learn how you can determine your ArcGIS Pro license level.

Getting ready

You will need to make sure that you have successfully installed ArcGIS Pro 2.0 or higher. If you have not installed ArcGIS Pro yet, please refer to http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/get-started/install-and-sign-in-to-arcgis-pro.htm for installation instructions.

How to do it...

Go to the Windows Start button, which is normally located in the lower-left corner of your screen.

Scroll down to the

ArcGIS

program group and click

ArcGIS Pro

Depending on the version of Windows you are running, your Windows Start button and display might be a bit different. You may also need to click All Programs to see the ArcGIS program group. If you right click the ArcGIS Pro icon you can select to add it to your task bar at the bottom of your display. This makes starting ArcGIS Pro faster and easier.

The ArcGIS Pro start window will appear. Click

About ArcGIS Pro

, located in the lower-left corner of the start window.

In the

About ArcGIS Pro

window, select

Licensing

, located in the left side of the window. This will display your ArcGIS Pro licensing information:

If you already have an ArcGIS Pro project open, you can access this same information from the project pane.

At the top of the Licensing window, you will see what license level you have been assigned. As you can see in the image, I have access to the Advanced license level. From here, you can also see which extensions you have access to. Extensions are add-ons for ArcGIS Pro, which provide additional functionality and are normally focused on a specific use, such as 3D analysis or network analysis. Again, in the image, you can see I have access to several extensions:

Question: What license level have you been assigned, Basic, Standard or Advanced?

Answer:

Question: Do you have access to any extensions, and if so which ones?

Answer:

Once you have determined the license level you have access to, you can close ArcGIS Pro if you are not continuing to the next recipe. If you are continuing, keep ArcGIS Pro open.

How it works...

In this recipe, you learned how to determine which license level of ArcGIS Pro you had access to. You did this by going to the About ArcGIS Pro window from the ArcGIS Pro start window. From there, you accessed your license level information by clicking the Licensing option located on the left side.

The license level is important, as it determines what functionality you have access to within the program. As you will see in this book, some recipes will require you to have access to higher license levels.

There's more...

The Licensing window allows you to do more than just see what license level and extensions have been assigned to you. It also allows you to determine what type of ArcGIS Pro licensing you want to use, check out a license for use in the field, and more.

ArcGIS Pro supports three basic types of licensing: single user, concurrent user, and named user. Named user is the default and requires you to have a username and password in your organization’s ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Portal. Single user licenses are the traditional software license, where the software is licensed to a single computer. Concurrent licenses are sometimes referred to as network licenses. These make use of a license manager that is typically installed on a server and controls how many users can be running the software at once. To learn more about the types of licenses supported in ArcGIS Pro, go to http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/get-started/licensing-arcgis-pro.htm.

Opening an existing ArcGIS Pro project

ArcGIS Pro makes use of project files that have a .aprx file extension. Projects store 2D maps, 3D scenes, database connections, folder connections, custom toolboxes, and more. When you start ArcGIS Pro, you must open a project.

In this recipe, you will learn how to open an existing project. Later in this chapter, you will learn how to create a new project.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you will need to make sure you have downloaded and installed the data associated with this book. If you followed the installation instructions, the data and projects should be located in C:\Student\ArcGISProCookbook. You will also need access to the internet. You will need to have ArcGIS Pro 2.1 or later installed as well. The recipe can be completed with any license level of ArcGIS Pro: Basic, Standard, or Advanced.

How to do it...

If you closed ArcGIS Pro at the end of the last recipe, open ArcGIS Pro. If you still have ArcGIS Pro open, click the back arrow located in the top-left corner of the

About ArcGIS Pro

window.

In the

ArcGIS Pro

start window, click

Open another project

, as shown in the following screenshot:

Click the

Browse

button, which looks like a file folder.

Under

Computer

in the left panel, select

C:\

If you do not see anything below Computer in the panel on the left, click the small arrow head. That will expand the contents of the computer, so you should see the C:\ drive.

If you installed the book data to another drive, select the drive containing the book data.

In the panel on the right, scroll down until you see the

Student

folder and double click it.

Double click the

ArcGISProCookbook

folder.

Double click the

Chapter1

folder.

Select the

Chapter 1 Ex 1.aprx

folder and click

You have now opened your first ArcGIS Pro project. If it opened successfully, ArcGIS Pro should look similar to this:

How it works...

Before you can start working in ArcGIS Pro, you must first open a project. To open a project, you must navigate to where it is stored. In this recipe, if you installed the data in the default location, the project was stored on your computer's C:\ drive in a series of folders, so that the full path was C:\Student\ArcGISProCookbook\Chapter1. You were able to access this project by navigating to that location.

Projects can be saved to your local computer or on a network server. It is also possible to save projects to external and flash drives. You may encounter issues if you do save and try to access projects stored on these devices because of slow data transfer rates.

There's more...

You are not required to close ArcGIS Pro if you want to open another project. ArcGIS Pro doesn't allow you to open a project if you already have a project open. This will close the current project and open the one you select. To do this, follow these steps.

Click the

Open

button located on the Quick Access Toolbar at the top of the ArcGIS Pro interface, as indicated in the following image:

In the

Open Project

window that appears, navigate to

C:\Student\ArcGISProCookbook\Chapter1

using the same method you did to open the current project.

Select the

Chapter 1 Ex 1A.aprx

file and click

The project you originally opened should now be closed and a new project should be open, which looks similar to this:

You have now opened two projects in ArcGIS Pro using two different methods. You will find, while using ArcGIS Pro, that there are usually at least two ways to accomplish any tasks. Often there are more.

If you are not continuing to the next recipe, close ArcGIS Pro without saving the project.

You can alternatively use Ctrl + O as a shortcut to open new projects. Ctrl+S works as a shortcut to save a project, and Ctrl+N as a shortcut to create a new project.

Opening and navigating a map

Now that you know how to open an existing project, it is time to learn how to open a map stored within the project. Projects can contain 2D maps, 3D scenes, data connections, layouts, styles, toolboxes, and more. However, 2D maps are still the primary canvas that GIS professionals work with.

In this recipe, you will learn how to open existing 2D maps. Once open, you will learn how to navigate within the map.

Getting ready

If you have successfully completed all the previous recipes, you should not need to do anything more to continue with this recipe. If you have not completed the other recipes in this chapter, you will need to do so before starting this one.

How to do it...

Start ArcGIS Pro if you closed it at the end of the last recipe and open the

Chapter 1 Ex 1A

project located in

C:\Student\ArcGISProCookbook\Chapter1

If you don’t remember how, you should refer back to the previous recipe or click the project name in the list of recently opened projects.

In the

Catalog

pane located on the right of the ArcGIS Pro interface, expand the

Maps

folder by clicking the small arrowhead to the left of the word

Maps

If the Catalog pane is not open, check that it is not set to autohide. If it is, you will see a small tab located on the right side, named Catalog. Simply click the tab to make the Catalog pane open. If you have closed the Catalog pane, click the View tab in the ribbon. Then click the small arrowhead located below Catalog and select Catalog Pane.

Right-click on

Map

and select

Open

, as shown here:

You have just opened an existing project map. A project can contain multiple maps that can be either 2D or 3D. 3D maps are referred to as scenes. Now you will learn how to navigate within the maps.

Click the

Map

tab in the ribbon.

Click the

Explore

tool located on the

Map

tab in the

Navigate

tool group.

The Explore tool is a jack of all trades. It allows you to pan, zoom, and access data about features in your map. For those that have used ArcMap, the Explore tool replaces the identify, zoom in, zoom out, and pan tools.

Move your mouse pointer into the map and roll the scroll wheel on your mouse away from you to zoom into the map. Stop whenever you are zoomed in to a desired scale.

Now roll the scroll wheel back toward you in the opposite direction to zoom out. Stop whenever you are zoomed out to a desired scale.

To return to the full extent of the map, click the

Full Extent

button located in the

Navigate

group on the

Map

tab in the ribbon, as shown here:

Click

Bookmarks

in the

Navigate

group on the

Map

tab in the ribbon.

Select

Washington Park

from the window that appears. This will zoom you to a predefined area in your map that focuses on Washington Park. Your map should now look similar to this:

Now you want to zoom in closer to the block just to the north of Washington Park. Select the

Explore

tool again.

Hold your

Shift

key down and click near the intersection of

Mulberry ST SW

and

Sweetwater ST SW

. Continue holding down the

Shift

key and drag your mouse pointer to the southeast until you reach the intersection of

Alabama St SW

and

Joe Jerkins Blvd SW

. As you are dragging your mouse, you should see a dashed rectangular box appear in the map. This represents the area you want to zoom into. Once you have created a box that looks similar to the following image, release both the

Shift

key and your mouse button:

Ensure the

Explore

tool is still active in the

Map

tab.

In the map, click the northwesternmost parcel in the block you just zoomed into.

Question: What happens when you click on this parcel?

Answer:

If you look closely at the information window that appears, you will notice it shows the information for the City Limits and not the parcel. You need to adjust the settings for the Explore tool.

Close the information window by clicking the small

located in the upper right corner.

Click the arrowhead located below the

Explore

tool and select

Visible Layers

Click the same parcel once again.

On the bottom left of the information window, look at the number of features which are being identified. It should say 1 of 2.

Click the small arrowhead located next to the number 2. This will display the information for the parcel you clicked in place of the

City Limit

Close the information window once you are done.

Try clicking other features in the map and using some of the other options associated with the

Explore

tool to see how they work.

Click the

Full Extent

button to return to the full extents of the map.

Save your project by clicking the

Save Project

button located in the Quick Access toolbar.

How it works...

In this recipe, you began exploring the contents of a project by opening an existing map that was contained in a project that you opened in the last recipe. Once you opened the map from that Catalog pane, you began to navigate within it using the Explore tool. You used the Explore tool to first zoom in and out within the map. Then, you used the Full Extent button to return to the full extent of the map view. Next, you used a book mark to zoom to Washington Park in the map. From there, you zoomed into an even more specific area, using a combination of the Explore tool and the Shift key along with your mouse.

Once you zoomed into a block of parcels you were interested in, you used the Explore tool to retrieve information about a specific parcel.

Adding and configuring layers

Now you know how to start ArcGIS Pro and open a project so you can begin accessing functionality. You have learned how to open an existing map and navigate within the map. You can even see information about features displayed within the map using the Explore tool.

But how did those layers get added to the map? How did ArcGIS Pro know how to display the layers you saw within the map? That is your next step in your ArcGIS Pro journey.

In this recipe, you will learn various methods for adding new layers to a map. You will then discover how to configure various properties associated with a layer, such as its name and symbology.

Getting ready

If you have already completed the previous recipes, you should be ready for this one. If you have not completed them, you will need to do so. This recipe builds on the past ones.

How to do it...

Start ArcGIS Pro and open the

Chapter 1 Ex 1A.aprx

project if you closed ArcGIS Pro at the end of the last recipe.

Open the map named

Map

if it is not already open.

If you are not sure how to open the map, you should refer back to the previous exercise.

As you can see, this is a very simple map. You will want to add some new layers to show additional information.

Click the

Add Data

button. Do not click the words

Add Data

. You want to click the icon located above the words.

In the left window in the

Add Data

dialog box, expand

Project

by clicking the small arrowhead located to the left of

Project

if you do not see the contents in the following image.

Double click

Databases

so you see two databases in the window to the right of the dialog box. You should see the

Chapter 1 Ex 1

and

Trippville_GIS

geodatabases:

Double-click the

Trippville_GIS

geodatabase to reveal its contents.

Double click the

Base

feature dataset.

Select the

Buildings

feature class.

While holding down the

Ctrl

key, click the

Natwtr_Body

and

Natwtr_Stream

feature classes.

Once you have selected those three feature classes, click

to add them as three new layers to your map.

You have just added three new layers to your map using the Add Data button. This is just one of several methods that you can use to add a new layer to a map. You will use some other methods later in this recipe. Now, you will adjust some of the properties associated with the layers you just added.

When you add a new layer to a map in ArcGIS Pro, the software will display the new layer using a random color. Also, it will automatically add the new layers to your map contents based on what type of layer it is. Point layers will be added to the top. Line layers will be added below points. Polygon layers will be added below the line layers. Raster layers are added below the polygons, and base maps are placed at the very bottom. In a map, the drawing order starts with the layers at the bottom of the list and draws each succeeding layer on top of the previous, so that the last layer drawn is the one on the top of the list.

Right-click the

Natwtr_Stream

layer you just added to your map and select

Properties

, located at the bottom of the menu that appears.

Click through the list of options located in the window on the left of the dialog box. Look at some of the properties of the layer that you can configure from this dialog box. You will make some adjustments to these as you work through the recipe.

In the

Layer Properties

dialog box, select

General

from the window on the left side.

In the cell located below

Name

, where it says

Natwtr_Stream

, replace that with

Streams and Creeks

Click

Metadata

in the left window.

Type the following values into the metadata as shown in the screenshot:

Title

Streams and Creeks

How it works...

In this recipe, you started by adding new layers to a map. You added multiple layers at one time using the Add Data button. Once you added the new layers, you began to adjust their properties so that they would be more useful within the map. First, you renamed the layer using a more descriptive and understandable name than the one originally associated with the feature class in the geodatabase. Then, you updated the metadata for the layer so others using the map would have a better understanding of its purpose.

After you updated some of the basic properties of the layers you added, you worked on the symbology so that the map was easier to read. You made the Streams, Creeks, Lakes, and Ponds layers blue so they resembled the features they represent, also, people are accustomed to seeing them presented this way in a map. You made these adjustments by clicking the symbol patch located beneath each layer and then changing the symbol properties in the Symbology pane.

The Buildings layer required a little more effort, because you needed to change the symbology so that you could tell each building type from within the map. This required you to base the symbology on an attribute of the buildings that was stored in a field found in the attribute table of the Buildings layer. To do this, you went to the Appearance tab and selected the Unique Values symbology. Then, you configured this symbology type to use the Building Type field from the attribute table for the layer. Once you pointed the symbology type to that field, it automatically created a unique symbol for each building type it found. In this case, it created a unique symbol allowing you to determine the type of buildings (for example, houses or apartments).

You added the Power Poles layer from the Catalog pane by right-clicking the feature class within the geodatabase and selecting Add to Current Map. You then adjusted the color of the Power Poles symbol to red by right-clicking the symbol and selecting Mars Red from the presented color palette.

Finally, you created a Map File based on the map you made, so you will be able add the map to other projects quickly and easily. The map will be added with all the layer properties and settings that you just configured, so you will not need to go through that process again.

Creating a project

We have mentioned several times that you must first open a project before you are able to access the functionality included in ArcGIS Pro. You have begun to experience this in the previous recipes where you opened and worked with existing projects. These were already configured, and contained several project items including maps and database connections. How were these projects created?

In this recipe, you will create a new project using one of the four project templates included with ArcGIS Pro. You will see the structure created by ArcGIS Pro when a new project is created.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, all you need to do is ensure that you have ArcGIS Pro installed, access to a license, and the data for the book downloaded and installed. This recipe does not even require you to have completed the previous recipes, though it might help provide a better understanding of what you are doing.

How to do it...

Start ArcGIS Pro.

When the

ArcGIS Pro

start window appears, select the

Blank

template from

Create a new project

on the right side:

In the

Name

cell, name your new project

%your name%Chapter1NewProject

(for example

TrippChapter1Newproject

Click the

Browse

button located next to the

Location

cell. It looks like a small file folder with a blue arrow.

Under

Computer

, click the

C:\

drive.

Scroll down and double-click the

Student

folder.

Double-click the

ArcGISProCookbook

folder.

Select the

MyProjects

folder and click

. Do not double-click it.

Verify that your

Create a New Project

dialog window looks like this, except for the name which will include your name:

Once you have verified that you have entered everything properly, click

You have just created your first new project in ArcGIS Pro using the Blank template. This created a new bare bones project. This project contains the minimum number of items you will find in a project. You can now begin to explore your new project.

Expand the

Toolboxes

folder in the

Catalog

pane.

Question: What do you see in this folder?

Answer:

Expand the

Databases

folder in the

Catalog

pane.

Question: What do you see in this folder?

Answer:

Expand the other folders within the project.

Question: What do you notice is missing from your new project?

Answer:

You should have noticed that your new project contains a single custom toolbox and file geodatabase that has the same name as your project. These were automatically created by ArcGIS Pro when you created the new project. You should have also noticed that several styles and locators were also automatically connected by default.

There are three basic types of geodatabase: personal, file, and SDE. ArcGIS Pro only supports file and SDE geodatabases. It does not support the personal geodatabase. To learn more about geodatabases, go to http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/data/geodatabases/overview/what-is-a-geodatabase-.htm.

This new project is missing several key elements that you will need to perform any GIS work. First, it is missing a map. Second, if you expand the geodatabase that is connected to the project, you will notice it is empty. So, you also need data. Now you will connect to an existing geodatabase and then add a map.

Right-click the

Databases

folder in the

Catalog

pane and select

Add Database

Click

C:\

under

Computer

in the area located on the left of the

Select Existing Geodatabase

window that appears.

Scroll down and double-click the

Student

folder.

Then double-click

ArcGISProCookbook

and

Databases

Select the

Trippville_GIS.gdb

and click

. Do not double-click the

Trippville_GIS

geodatabase.

Right click the

Trippville_GIS.gdb

you just added to your project and select

Add to New Projects

, as shown in the following image:

You just added a connection to the Trippville GIS geodatabase you have been using in the other recipes. In those, the database connection had already been established. Now you know how it was done. Once you added the connection, you then added it to your favorites and set it so it will automatically be added to any new projects you create.

You still need to add a map. You could do this the same way you did in the previous recipe. However, in this one you will import the Map File you created in the last recipe.

Click the

Insert

tab in the ribbon:

Click the

Import Map

tool in the

Project

group on the

Insert

tab in the ribbon:

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Determining whether your computer can run ArcGIS Pro

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