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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
Geographic coordinate systems
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
Editing and data compilation
Tables and attribute information
Understanding tables and attribute information
Creating tables and managing attribute information
Displaying tables and attribute information
Geoprocessing
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
Coverages
NetCDF: multidimensional, time series data
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
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
Additional geocoding techniques
Alternative searches
The Alternate Name table tab
The Alias Table dialog box
Building an address locator for alternative searches
Searching for an intersection
Building a composite address locator
Keeping an address locator current
Distributing your address locator
Deciding to share an address locator
Collecting address locators
Making your address locator public
Accessing distributed address locators
Sharing pre-9.2 address locators
Adjusting your address locator file
About StreetMap data
Linear referencing
Getting started with linear referencing
Creating route feature classes
Displaying and querying route feature classes
Displaying and querying route events
An overview of displaying and querying route events
Dynamic segmentation
Adding route events
Editing routes
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
Using the Network Analyst extension
Analyzing geometric networks
Mobile GIS
Interoperability and standards support
Overview of interoperability
Overview of OGC and ISO support
ESRI protocols and programming interfaces
GML support in ArcGIS
WFS support in ArcGIS
WCS support in ArcGIS
WMS support in ArcGIS
An overview of WMS support in ArcGIS
KML support in ArcGIS
An overview of KML support in ArcGIS
KML elements
Why share GIS data as KML?
Translating ArcGIS information to KML
Preparing your map documents in ArcGIS for KML publishing
Creating KML files
Serving KML with ArcGIS Server
KML examples
Using folders to organize KML content
Frequently asked questions about KML
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
Extending ArcGIS desktop applications
About extending ArcGIS
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
An overview of GIS servers used with ArcGIS
Using ArcIMS with ArcGIS Desktop
An overview to using ArcIMS with ArcGIS Desktop
Types of ArcIMS services
Publishing GIS contents for use with ArcIMS
Using ArcGIS Server with ArcGIS Desktop
An overview to using ArcGIS Server with ArcGIS Desktop
About the roles of GIS end users, authors, developers, and administrators
Types of services in ArcGIS Server
Authoring and publishing services for ArcGIS Server
An overview of authoring and publishing services
Data access considerations for ArcGIS Server
Publishing resources
Administering ArcGIS Server with ArcCatalog
Overview of ArcGIS Server administration in ArcCatalog
Connecting to a GIS server
Running ArcCatalog under a different operating system account
Adding a server object container
Adding a new service
Adding multiple services at once
Removing a service
Starting, stopping, and pausing services
Displaying server statistics
Creating a server directory
Specifying the log file location
Using a proxy server to connect to the Internet
Setting the capacity of a server object container
Creating a map cache
Publishing a resource to ArcGIS Server
Creating a globe cache
Adding and removing folders
Creating and publishing web maps for ArcGIS Server