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ArcGIS Pro 3.x Cookbook

ArcGIS Pro 3.x Cookbook

By : Tripp Corbin, GISP
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ArcGIS Pro 3.x Cookbook

ArcGIS Pro 3.x Cookbook

4.8 (16)
By: Tripp Corbin, GISP

Overview of this book

ArcGIS Pro, Esri's newest desktop GIS application, offers powerful tools for visualizing, maintaining, and analyzing data. This cookbook will help existing ArcMap users transition to ArcGIS Pro and teach new users how to utilize its GIS tools effectively. You’ll learn how to create geodatabases, convert data formats, link tables from outside sources, edit 2D and 3D data, ensure data integrity with topology, and enable advanced geodatabase behavior. By the end, you'll be able to effectively use ArcGIS Pro as your primary desktop GIS application, maintaining, analyzing, and displaying data using common methods and tools.
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Converting Data

As you may have noticed by now, GIS data comes in many formats. There are geodatabases, shapefiles, Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) files, DBF files, rasters, spreadsheets, and more. ArcGIS Pro allows you to use all of these. However, there are limits to what ArcGIS Pro allows you to do with some of these formats. Some of these are read-only, such as CAD files or spreadsheets. Others you can read and edit, such as shapefiles and geodatabases. Also, if you have data spread across multiple locations, formats, and files, it can make it difficult to use.

If you are going to be editing and analyzing data, it is recommended that you consolidate all the required data into a single format. For ArcGIS Pro, the primary storage format is a geodatabase. Shapefiles are generally considered a secondary option. To consolidate your data sources, you may need to convert and combine data from one or more sources into a single source. ArcGIS Pro provides several methods and tools to...

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