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Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop Help
Copyright information
Acknowledgements
GIS Dictionary
What's new in ArcGIS
Getting started
Map projections and coordinate systems
Getting started with map projections
An overview of map projections
Projection basics the GIS professional needs to know
About the geoid, ellipsoid, spheroid and datum, and how they are related
Identifying an unknown coordinate system
Converting Degrees Minutes Seconds values to Decimal Degree values
Geographic coordinate systems
Projected coordinate systems
Geographic transformations
Supported map projections
List of supported map projections
Aitoff
Alaska Grid
Alaska Series E
Albers Equal Area Conic
Azimuthal Equidistant
Behrmann Equal Area Cylindrical
Bipolar Oblique Conformal Conic
Bonne
Cassini-Soldner
Chamberlin Trimetric
Craster Parabolic
Cube
Cylindrical Equal Area
Double Stereographic
Eckert I
Eckert II
Eckert III
Eckert IV
Eckert V
Eckert VI
Equidistant Conic
Equidistant Cylindrical
Equirectangular
Fuller
Gall's Stereographic
Gauss-Krüger
Geocentric Coordinate System
Geographic Coordinate System
Gnomonic
Goodes Homolosine
Great Britain National Grid
Hammer-Aitoff
Hotine Oblique Mercator
Krovak
Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area
Lambert Conformal Conic
Local Cartesian Projection
Loximuthal
McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Quartic
Mercator
Miller Cylindrical
Mollweide
New Zealand National Grid
Orthographic
Perspective
Plate Carrée
Polar Stereographic
Polyconic
Quartic Authalic
Rectified Skewed Orthomorphic
Robinson
Simple Conic
Sinusoidal
Space Oblique Mercator
State Plane Coordinate System
Stereographic
Times projection
Transverse Mercator
Two-Point Equidistant
Universal Polar Stereographic
Universal Transverse Mercator
Van der Grinten I
Vertical Near-Side Perspective
Winkel I
Winkel II
Winkel Tripel
Vertical coordinate systems
About vertical coordinate systems
Vertical datums
Geoid
Mapping and visualization
Editing and data compilation
Tables and attribute information
Geoprocessing
What is geoprocessing?
A whirlwind tour of geoprocessing
Geoprocessing tools
Geoprocessing framework
Frequently Asked Questions about geoprocessing
Fundamental tool concepts
An introduction to the fundamental tools
Overlay analysis
Proximity analysis
Table analysis and management
Surface creation and analysis
Statistical analysis
Extracting data
Using geoprocessing tools
An overview of using tools
Using the tool dialog
Managing toolboxes
Managing tools and toolsets
Batch processing
Using tools in the command line
Tool layers
Automating your work with models
Automating your work with scripts
Geoprocessing environments
An overview of geoprocessing environments
Environment levels and hierarchy
Script environments
Specifying application environment settings
Specifying tool environment settings
Specifying model environment settings
Specifying model process environment settings
Environment categories
Documenting tools and toolboxes
Sharing tools and toolboxes
An overview of sharing tools and toolboxes
Methods for distributing tools
Pathnames explained: Absolute, relative, UNC, and URL
A structure for sharing tools
Sharing and connecting to UNC pathnames
Accessing ArcSDE data in tools
Techniques for sharing Python scripts
Managing intermediate data in shared models
Sharing stylesheets
Checklist for sharing tools and toolboxes
Geoprocessing with ArcGIS Server
Keeping track of geoprocessing history
An overview of geoprocessing history
History log files
Geoprocessing history in metadata
Advanced modeling through simulations
Geoprocessing tool reference
Geodatabases and ArcSDE
Data management with ArcCatalog
Image and raster data management
Data support in ArcGIS
An overview of data support in ArcGIS
Data formats supported in ArcGIS
CAD data
The composition of a CAD drawing
Working with CAD data in ArcGIS
Displaying CAD features
Georeferencing CAD data
CAD feature attributes and queries
CAD data translation
Geoprocessing tools for CAD translation
Common CAD data workflows
Coverages
NetCDF: multidimensional, time series data
Shapefiles
Terrains
Extensions
Geocoding and address management
Linear referencing
Getting started with linear referencing
Creating route feature classes
An overview of creating route feature classes
Creating route feature classes
Defining the measure properties of your m coordinates
Using existing linear features to create routes
Creating routes from existing lines
About calibrating route measures using points
Calibrating routes with points
Migrating route features to a geodatabase
Accessing the Create Routes wizard
Accessing the Calibrate Routes wizard
Displaying and querying route feature classes
An overview of displaying and querying route feature classes
Working with route feature classes in ArcMap
Setting the route identifier field
Querying route feature classes
Displaying route measure anomalies
About hatching route feature classes
Hatching options
Displaying hatches
Manipulating the text on hatches
Working with hatch styles
Displaying and querying route events
Editing routes
An overview of editing routes
Creating route features from existing lines
Using ArcMap to calibrate routes with points
About setting route measures
Remeasuring routes
Adding the Route Editing toolbar
Creating and editing event data
An overview of creating and editing event data
Creating event tables in ArcCatalog
About locating features along routes
Locating features along routes
Editing event tables in ArcMap
Working with route event data
Network analysis
Mobile GIS
An overview of Mobile GIS
ArcGIS Mobile integration
GPS
Tablet PC
ArcPad integration
Interoperability and standards support
Customizing and developing with ArcGIS
An overview of customizing ArcGIS
Customizing the user interface
Writing macros using VBA
Getting started with VBA
Creating, editing, and running macros
Creating custom commands with VBA and UI Controls
Adding custom commands and toolbars from .dlls
Updating the ArcID module
Locking documents and templates
Changing VBA security
Sample VBA code
Extending ArcGIS desktop applications
Guide to data that comes with ArcGIS
Licensing and desktop administration
GIS Servers and services