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Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop Help
Copyright information
GIS Dictionary
What's new in ArcGIS Desktop 9.1
What was new in ArcGIS Desktop 9.0
Getting started
Desktop Administration
ArcCatalog
Getting started with ArcCatalog

An overview of ArcCatalog

Starting ArcCatalog

Browsing through the Catalog

What's in the Catalog?

Repositioning the Catalog tree

Stopping ArcCatalog
Building the Catalog

About folders and file types

Managing folder connections

Geodatabases and their contents

Creating and accessing geodatabases

Creating spatial database connections

Adding OLE DB connections

About GIS servers and services

Connecting to GIS servers

Working with database connections

Hiding folders and items

Changing a data format's properties

Working with file types
Managing the Catalog's contents
Exploring an item's geography
Exploring the values in a table
Working with metadata
Searching for items
Working with maps and layers
Working with shapefiles
Working with CAD data

About CAD data

Defining a coordinate system for CAD data

Supported AutoCAD entities and MicroStation elements
Working with coverages

About coverages and INFO tables

Creating a new coverage

Creating a new INFO table

Generating topology

Defining a coverage's coordinate system

Modifying a coverage's tics

Modifying a coverage's extent

Setting a coverage's tolerances

Maintaining attributes

About relationships and relationship classes

Creating a coverage relationship class
Working with rasters in ArcCatalog

About raster data

Properties of raster datasets

Exploring geodatabase raster catalogs

Tabular raster catalogs

Initial display properties of a raster

Setting the default band for a raster

Defining a raster's coordinate system

Calculating statistics for your raster dataset

Creating raster pyramids

Mosaicking rasters

Raster display performance tuning

Performance tuning for rasters in ArcSDE

Choosing which raster formats will appear in ArcCatalog

Supported raster formats

Technical specifications for raster formats

Pixel depth capacity
ArcMap
ArcReader
Geoprocessing in the ArcGIS environment
Geoprocessing tool reference
Building a geodatabase
Editing in ArcMap
Geocoding
Linear referencing
Getting started with linear referencing

An overview of linear referencing

The need for linear referencing

About storing features as relative locations

Segmented data

Routes and measures

Route locations and route events

Linear referencing and topology

Adding the Route Editing toolbar

Accessing the Route Events Geoprocessing wizard

Accessing the Create Routes wizard

Accessing the Calibrate Routes wizard
Creating route data
Displaying and querying routes and events
Editing routes
Creating and editing event data

About creating and editing event data

Creating event tables in ArcCatalog

About overlaying event data

Overlay events

About aggregating event data

Aggregating route events

About transforming event measures

Transforming event measures

About locating features along routes

Locating features along routes

Editing event tables in ArcMap
Map projections
Writing geoprocessing scripts
Getting started with writing geoprocessing scripts

An overview of writing geoprocessing scripts

Creating and debugging geoprocessing scripts

Additional help with writing geoprocessing scripts
Accessing tools within a geoprocessing script
Batch processing with geoprocessing scripts

About batch processing with geoprocessing scripts
Messaging and script tools

About geoprocessing script messages

Using AMLs with script tools
Data properties and access when scripting
Scripting Object: Properties and methods

IGPDispatch object

Geoprocessor programming model
Properties and Methods
Customizing the user interface
Migrating from ArcView GIS 3 to ArcView 9

Comparing ArcView GIS 3 to ArcView 9

ArcView terminology

ArcView GIS extensions at 9

Importing an ArcView GIS 3 project into ArcMap

Importing an ArcView GIS 3 legend into ArcMap

Working with tables in ArcView 9

New features and functionality beyond ArcView GIS 3

ArcView 9 and the geodatabase

ArcView 9 import tools
Migrating from ArcInfo Workstation to ArcGIS Desktop
ESRI Data & Maps
Extensions
Getting more help
Help for developers