Geog3561_5561_F23_Lab01

Geography 3561/5561 Fall 2023 Lab 01: ArcGIS Intro I - The first steps II. Starting/ending an ArcGIS Pro session and getting help You can now move on to begin working with ArcGIS Pro. 1. Starting ArcGIS Pro: ● You start ArcGIS Pro by selecting Start > All Programs > ArcGIS > ArcGIS Pro. ● You will need to log in to your ArcGIS Online account to have access to our licensing portal. Every student has an ArcGIS Online account connected to their x500 ID. Upon opening ArcGIS Pro there will be a prompt in the top right corner of the window to sign into ArcGIS Online. Click Sign In. ● A login window will appear. Click Enterprise login below the username and password boxes. The next window will ask you to enter the organization’s URL. Enter “umn” into the box and press continue.

Geography 3561/5561 Fall 2023 Lab 01: ArcGIS Intro I - The first steps III. Working with geographic data in ArcGIS Pro In this section, you will learn about ArcGIS Pro’s basic tools for loading, viewing, and querying data. 1. At first, you should add data to your project. In the Catalog pane, right click on Folders , then click on the Add Folder Connection then navigate to your Lab01 working folder and select it. Click OK. 2. After connection, you can see there is a Geodatabase (with a .gdb extension) in your folder. The name of the geodatabase is same as your project. ArcGIS Pro will automatically create a geodatabase in the same folder that stores the project file. It can be used to store spatial and non-spatial data. 3. Next you will find five files that are called country.shp , lakes.shp , and neighbors.shp , rivers.shp and USstates.shp in your folder as shown in Figure 2. These are five shapefiles of spatial data that represent different spatial features in the world. Figure 2 4. Add country.shp , lakes.shp and rivers.shp to your map document. Do this by either right clicking and selecting “Add to Current Map” (Figure 3) or by dragging and dropping. Figure 3 5. You can see the feature classes are added to the Contents pane as layers and displayed in the map view area. In the Contents pane, you’ll see the names of the layers in the view are displayed together with the symbols that represent them. To the left of each of the layers is a checkbox. Click on the checkboxes.

Geography 3561/5561 Fall 2023 Lab 01: ArcGIS Intro I - The first steps 12. Now zoom to North America in the view you have just completed. Click the Explore in the Navigate group to make it highlighted in blue. Try the zoom in function on a map: Place your cursor near the NW corner of North America, scroll up your mouse wheel several times. Then try the zoom out function by placing the cursor somewhere inside the map and scroll down the mouse wheel several times. 13. If you find it hard to zoom back to the initial display of the view, you can use the Zoom to Full Extent in the Navigate group. 14. Click the Select icon in the Selection group and click on Japan. What happens to the coastlines of Japan? To get a better view of Japan, click on Zoom to Selection button in the Navigate group. Now Japan is a selected feature in the layer country . Later in the course we will learn how to perform different operations with selected features. Now, unselect everything by clicking on a "blank" part of the map. You may also click on the Clear button in the Selection group to unselect everything. 15. There are two buttons in the Navigate group. Click these two buttons. What is the difference between the functions of these two buttons and the Zoom In and Zoom Out steps that you performed in earlier processes? 16. Now try holding the Ctrl key down and scrolling the mouse wheel. What is different compared to scrolling the mouse wheel without the Ctrl key pressed down? 17. You can change your scale manually with the map scale box at the lower left of the map view. Type 1:10,000,000 or select it from the pull down menu. What is scale? What is the appropriate scale to view Ireland in a single screen? Also notice that the spatial coordinates of your cursor are displayed at the bottom of the ArcPro window. The coordinates are given in X,Y format, meaning longitude is listed first, followed by latitude. Move your cursor around and see how the coordinates shift. We will learn more about coordinate systems in Lab03 . 18. Zoom to the full extent of the map, again using this button . Click the Explore button, then click anywhere within the United States on the map. This step achieved the Identify function in ArcPro. What appears in the pop-up window?

Geography 3561/5561 Fall 2023 Lab 01: ArcGIS Intro I - The first steps 4. To avoid confusion, rename the map frame Map , which contains the rivers , lakes , and country layers, as World : Double-click on Map in the Contents pane. Rename the map frame World with the name textbox under the General tab (see Figure 9). Click OK. Figure 9 5. Click Insert tab in the ribbon, then select New Map . A new map frame opened in the map view area (Figure 10). Figure 10 6. Note that the view area is now only containing the default basemap, as Map (instead of World) is your current map frame. Rename it North America as you did in Step 4. In the Catalog pane, expand Folders > Lab01 > data folder. Add neighbors.shp to the map frame “North America”. 7. Make use of the skills you learned in the previous section to change the fill color of the neighboring countries to light yellow. 8. Now add USstates.shp as a new layer, and change the fill color of the United States to light green. 9. Likewise, add lakes.shp to the same map frame, and color them appropriately. 10. Zoom in to the northern portion of Michigan's lower peninsula (Figure 11).

Geography 3561/5561 Fall 2023 Lab 01: ArcGIS Intro I - The first steps 9. Now move the mn_states shapefile into a subfolder. First, create a new folder in your working folder and name it mn_data . Then, select all of the mn_states files, cut them, and paste them into the new mn_data folder. When you are done, you should make sure that no mn_states files are left in your main working folder. Now that you’ve moved the shapefile, what do you think will happen to your ArcPro project? 10. Open ArcGIS Pro again, and then open your lab01 project. The MN_states layer is no longer visible in the view area. Look for a red exclamation mark next to the MN_states layer (see Figure 14). It is there because ArcGIS Pro cannot find the MN_states shapefile. Figure 14 Note: An ArcGIS Pro project file (which ends with .aprx) does not contain any geographic data . Instead, it may contain links to shapefiles or other data files. If you move or delete a data file that was included in a project, the project file still links to the old location of the file. When you open the project, it cannot find the file at its old location, so you need to indicate where the file is now located (if it still exists). 11. Click on the red exclamation mark to repair the layer's data source. Browse to the new location of the mn_states shapefile, select it, and click OK . Now the file link in your map document is updated with the new disk location of mn_states. The MN_States layer is loaded up in the view area again. 12. Save the project and move on to the questions below. SUBMISSION FOR GRADING Answer the questions in the Answer Sheet. Save your answers as a PDF. Name the file in this manner: The first letter of the day of the week of your lab ( T or W ), followed by an underscore ( _ ), then your last name, then another underscore ( _ ), then lab01 . For example, David Harvey from the Tuesday lab section would name his assignment T_Harvey_lab01 . You should follow this naming convention for all lab assignments. Upload your completed file to the course Canvas page.