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Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop Help
Copyright information
Acknowledgements
GIS Dictionary
What's new in ArcGIS
Getting started
Fundamentals of GIS
Three views of GIS
How maps convey geographic information
Georeferencing and coordinate systems
Elements of geographic information
How GIS represents and organizes geographic information
How ArcGIS users work with geographic information
Users work with many data types and data formats in ArcGIS
Comparing Geoprocessing and Spatial Analysis
Introducing ArcGIS Desktop
Tutorials
Toolbars
Getting more help
Using this Help system
Getting help within the applications
ArcGIS Desktop Resource Center
ArcGIS Desktop Documentation Library
Accessing ESRI Software Training
Using the GIS Dictionary
Contacting Technical Support
Support for users located outside the United States
Contacting ESRI
Map projections and coordinate systems
Getting started with map projections
Geographic coordinate systems
About geographic coordinate systems
Spheroids and spheres
Datums
North American datums
What happens to features at +/-180 (dateline)?
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Projected coordinate systems
About projected coordinate systems
About map projections
Projection types
Planar projections
Conic projections
Cylindrical projections
Other projections
Projection parameters
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
Mapping and visualization
An overview of mapping and visualization
Using ArcMap
Working with layers
Navigating and interacting with maps
Adding graphics and text to maps
Working with graphics
Working with text
Symbolizing data
Applying symbology
Styles and symbols
Animation
Using cartographic representations
Page layout and map composition
Getting started with laying out and printing maps
Map elements
Grids and graticules
Rulers and guides
Working with data frames in layout view
Creating interactive and paperless maps
Map output
Map series
Designing maps for optimal performance
Working with graphs and reports
Working with web maps in ArcGIS
An overview of GIS Web map layers
Working with ArcGIS Server in ArcGIS Desktop
Using services from ArcGIS Server
Using services from ArcIMS
Using OGC Services
Using KML
Using ArcGIS Online
Using image service layers
Working with service layers in the table of contents
Printing and exporting maps containing service layers
Publishing optimized map services in ArcGIS
Publishing optimized map services
Drawing differences between ArcMap and optimized map services
Map Service Publication Toolbar error messages
Map Service Publication Toolbar warning messages
Map Service Publishing Toolbar information messages
Editing and data compilation
An overview of editing and data compilation
Getting started with editing
Common editing tasks
Common point editing tasks
Common line editing tasks
Common polygon editing tasks
Common annotation editing tasks
Common multipoint editing tasks
Editing data in a different projection
Creating new features
About creating new features
Creating point features and vertices
Creating lines and polygons
Creating segments using angles and lengths
Creating segments using angles from existing segments
Creating segments that are circular arc curves
Creating segments by tracing features
Creating buffers
Mirroring features
Combining features from different layers
Intersecting features
Merging and separating features
Copying parallel line features
Creating a fillet curve between two lines
Creating cul-de-sac lines
Creating lines with the Traverse window
Creating lines with the 2-Point Line window
Creating lines with the Offset Line window
Editing existing features
Editing attributes
Editing annotation
Editing dimension features
About editing dimension features
Creating dimension features
Modifying a dimension feature's geometry and style
Using a digitizer
About digitizing
An overview of preparing to digitize
Registering the paper map
Digitizing features on a paper map
Spatial adjustment
Editing topology
Editing relationships and related objects
COGO
Tables and attribute information
Understanding tables and attribute information
Creating tables and managing attribute information
Displaying tables and attribute information
Previewing a table in ArcCatalog
Adding and viewing tables in ArcMap
Setting field properties, aliases, and table display options
Navigating to and finding records in a table
Sorting records in a table
Selecting records in a table
Summarizing data in a table
Printing a table
Adding a table to a layout
Viewing statistics for a table
Creating a graph from a table
Creating a report from a table
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
An overview of writing geoprocessing scripts
Getting started with writing geoprocessing scripts
Accessing tools within a geoprocessing script
Creating script tools
Batch processing with geoprocessing scripts
Data properties and access when scripting
Working with AMLs
Scripting object: Properties and Methods
Geoprocessing environments
Documenting tools and toolboxes
Sharing tools and toolboxes
Geoprocessing with ArcGIS Server
An overview of geoprocessing with ArcGIS Server
Key concepts for geoprocessing services
Guide to related geoprocessing with server topics
Input and output data types
Creating models for geoprocessing services
Preparing map documents containing tool layers
Defining output symbology for geoprocessing tasks
Defining symbology for input feature sets
Publishing geoprocessing services
Managing the jobs directory
Deploying services on multiple computers - LocalJobsDirectory
Data access considerations for geoprocessing tasks
Creating tasks for the UNIX/Linux environment
Creating script tools for geoprocessing tasks
Using geoprocessing tasks in Python scripts
Spatial reference considerations for geoprocessing services
Performance tips for geoprocessing services
Checklist for authoring and publishing geoprocessing services
Python scripts to zip and unzip data
Geoprocessing service examples
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
An overview of ArcCatalog
About workspaces
Getting started with ArcCatalog
Starting ArcCatalog
Browsing through the Catalog
What's in the Catalog
Repositioning the Catalog tree
Stopping ArcCatalog
Building the Catalog
Managing the Catalog's contents
Exploring an item's geography
Searching for items
Working with metadata
About metadata
Metadata standards and the ArcGIS metadata format
ArcGIS support for the ISO 19139 metadata standard
Exploring an item's metadata
Changing the default stylesheet
Printing metadata
Creating and updating metadata
Metadata synchronization
Writing metadata documentation
Importing and exporting metadata with ArcCatalog
Importing and exporting metadata
Editing metadata
Using the FGDC metadata editor
Using the ISO metadata editor
Managing enclosures
Requirements for publishing metadata to an ArcIMS Metadata Service
Adding information required by the ArcIMS Metadata Service
Publishing metadata to an ArcIMS Metadata Service
Managing published metadata documents
Changing a published document's properties
Adding custom places to a Gazetteer Metadata Service
Customizing metadata
Image and raster data management
Understanding raster data
What is raster data?
Raster bands
Cell size of raster data
Representing features in a raster dataset
Discrete and continuous data
Raster dataset zones and regions
Raster dataset attribute tables
Raster data organization
Gathering basic raster dataset information
Supported raster data
Properties of raster data
Designing a raster database
Design methodology for a raster database
Why store rasters in a geodatabase
Example raster case studies including the storage decisions
Raster datasets as attributes
More details about rasters in ArcGIS
Building and managing a raster database
How raster data is stored in a geodatabase
Exploring geodatabase raster catalogs
Creating raster datasets in a geodatabase
Creating raster catalogs in a geodatabase
Importing raster datasets
Exporting or converting raster datasets
Exporting raster catalogs
Mosaicking raster datasets
Persisting a transformation to a raster dataset without rectifying it
Migrating your 8.x raster catalog
Updating your geodatabase raster catalog footprints
Loading large raster datasets into ArcSDE
Transferring large raster datasets
Building large raster datasets-case studies
Raster data and disconnected editing
Raster display and visualization
Raster analysis and geoprocessing
Serving raster data
Serving raster data
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
What is a coverage
Summary of coverage feature classes
Coverage resolution (precision)
How coverages are stored
Creating a new coverage
Understanding and maintaining attributes in a coverage
About fields (items) in coverage attribute tables
Creating a new INFO table
About the coverage extent
Coverage tics
Defining a coverage's coordinate system
Coverage topology
Coverage tolerances
Coverage relationships and relationship classes
Coverage data limitations
Importing an ArcInfo interchange file (E00)
NetCDF: multidimensional, time series data
An overview of netCDF data
Understanding netCDF data
Working with netCDF data in ArcGIS
Shapefiles
About shapefiles, dBASE tables, and file types
Shapefile file extensions
Creating new shapefiles and dBASE tables
Adding and deleting fields in shapefiles
Creating and updating indexes in shapefiles
Defining a shapefile's coordinate system
How to salvage a corrupt shapefile
Terrains
Extensions
Geocoding and address management
Getting started with geocoding
An overview of geocoding
Definition of the address locator
Understanding geocoding
What is an address?
The geocoding work flow
The geocoding framework
The process of geocoding
Customization of the address locator
Common geocoding tasks
Preparing for geocoding
Building an address locator
Defining the address locator components
Creating an address locator
Modifying an address locator's settings
Managing address locators in ArcMap
Managing address locators in ArcCatalog
Migrating address locators created with ArcGIS prior to version 9.2
Locating addresses
The geocoding process
Finding an individual address
Getting an address of a location
Geocoding a table of addresses
Rematching a geocoded feature class
Additional geocoding techniques
Keeping an address locator current
Distributing your address locator
Adjusting your address locator file
Exploring the address locator file
Why change your address locator file?
Changing default settings
Changing default settings in the address locator template file
Table schema and the locator file
Accommodating alternative reference table schema
Modifying the query
Accommodating changes in the geocoding rule base files
Address Locator Properties dialog box
About StreetMap data
About StreetMap data
Linear referencing
Network analysis
Mobile GIS
Interoperability and standards support
Overview of interoperability
Overview of OGC and ISO support
ESRI protocols and programming interfaces
GML support in ArcGIS
An overview of GML support in ArcGIS
How to work with GML in ArcGIS
Using the GML simple features profile
Using supported GML profiles
Adding new GML profiles
Working with WFS within ArcGIS
WFS support in ArcGIS
WCS support in ArcGIS
WMS support in ArcGIS
KML support in ArcGIS
Customizing and developing with ArcGIS
An overview of customizing ArcGIS
Customizing the user interface
About customizing the user interface
Basic user interface elements
Hiding and showing toolbars
Creating custom toolbars
Changing a toolbar's or menu's contents
Changing a command's appearance
Creating shortcut keys
Setting toolbar options
Saving your customizations
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
Administering the ArcGIS License Manager
Setting up license managers for ArcGIS 93 concurrent use products
Checking license availability
Viewing and changing the license manager
Common license manager problems and how to solve them
Setting the software product
Registering ArcView or ArcEditor and extensions
Evaluating an ArcGIS Desktop extension
Error reporting for ArcGIS software crash data
Frequently asked questions about error reporting
GIS Servers and services