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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
Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop 9.0

An overview of the new functionality in ArcGIS Desktop 9.0

Introducing the new geoprocessing framework

What's new in labeling

What's new in annotation

What's new in raster data

What's new in the geodatabase

What's new in geocoding

What's new in coordinate systems

What's new in application development and deployment

What's new in ArcGIS Desktop licensing
What's new in ArcMap: other changes in version 9.0

Quick ArcMap tips and tricks

What's new in ArcMap: Geoprocessing

What's new in ArcMap: Printing maps

What's new in ArcMap: Table of contents

What's new in ArcMap: Map documents

What's new in ArcMap: Data frames

What's new in ArcMap: Layers

What's new in ArcMap: Group layers

What's new in ArcMap: Selection

What's new in ArcMap: Tables

What's new in ArcMap: Identify tool

What's new in ArcMap: Symbology

What's new in ArcMap: Elements

What's new in ArcMap: Editing

What's new in ArcMap: Internet data

What's new in ArcMap: Linear referencing

What's new in ArcMap: GPS support

What's new in ArcMap: Miscellaneous
What's new in ArcCatalog: other changes in version 9.0

What's new in ArcCatalog: General

What's new in ArcCatalog: Data conversion tools

What's new in ArcCatalog: Internet data

What's new in ArcCatalog: Metadata
What's new in ArcGIS Desktop extensions in version 9.0

Introducing the new Maplex for ArcGIS extension

What's new in 3D Analyst

What's new in ArcGIS Publisher and ArcReader

What's new in ArcGIS Spatial Analyst

What's new in ArcGIS Survey Analyst

What's new in ArcPress for ArcGIS

What's new in ArcGIS StreetMap
Getting started
Desktop Administration
ArcCatalog
Getting started with ArcCatalog
Building the Catalog
Managing the Catalog's contents

The Contents tab

Working in Details view

Changing the columns in Details view

Modifying the default settings for exploring contents

Exploring an item's properties

Organizing your data

Converting data to a different format
Exploring an item's geography

Previewing an item's geographic data

Exploring data in Geography view

Creating thumbnails
Exploring the values in a table
Working with metadata
Searching for items
Working with maps and layers

About maps, layers, and graphs

Opening a map from ArcCatalog

Adding data to maps

Creating a layer

Creating a group layer

Repairing the data sources in a layer

Joining attributes to the layer's data
Working with shapefiles

About shapefiles, dBASE tables, and file types

Creating new shapefiles and dBASE tables

Adding and deleting attributes

Creating and updating indexes

Defining a shapefile's coordinate system
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

About editing routes

Using ArcMap to create routes from existing lines

Using ArcMap to calibrate routes with points

About setting route measures

Remeasuring 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
Accessing tools within a geoprocessing script

Running tools in a geoprocessing script

Using environment settings

Access to licensing and extensions in 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

Describing data in a geoprocessing script

Data access using cursors in a geoprocessing script

Working with geodatabases in a geoprocessing script
Scripting Object: Properties and methods
Customizing the user interface

About customizing the user interface

Basic user interface elements

Saving your customizations

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

Creating, editing, and running macros

Creating custom commands with VBA and UIControls

Adding custom commands and toolbars from .dlls

Updating the ArcID module

Locking customization, documents, and templates

Changing VBA security

Sample VBA code

Customize commands available in ArcMap

Customize commands available in ArcCatalog
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
3D Analyst
ArcScan
Getting started with ArcScan

An overview of ArcScan

How ArcScan works in the editing environment

Enabling the ArcScan extension

Adding the ArcScan toolbar

Changing the raster layer symbology

Selecting the target raster layer
Raster tracing

About raster tracing

Types of raster snapping properties

Setting the raster snapping options

Applying the vectorization settings for raster tracing

Creating line features using raster snapping and the Sketch tool

Creating line features using the Vectorization Trace tool

Creating polygon features using raster snapping and the Sketch tool

Creating polygon features using the Vectorization Trace tool
Batch vectorization
Cell selection
Raster cleanup

About preparing raster data for vectorization

Starting and stopping the raster cleanup session

Using the raster cleanup commands

Using the Raster Painting tools
Vectorization options and settings
ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension
Business Analyst
Geostatistical Analyst
Maplex
Military Analyst
Military Overlay Editor
Network Analyst
Publisher
Spatial Analyst
Survey Analyst
Getting started with Survey Analyst

An overview of Survey Analyst

What can you do with Survey Analyst?

Enabling the Survey Analyst extension

Adding the survey toolbars to ArcMap
Organizing survey data
Visualizing survey data
Using the Survey Explorer
Using computations
Editing feature geometry

About editing feature geometry

Survey-aware feature classes

Using the edit sketch

Using COGO computations with the edit sketch

Linking survey points to feature geometry

Breaking links between survey points and features

Updating features
Analyzing and editing survey data
Managing shared survey data

About managing shared survey data

Survey datasets and versions

Registering a survey dataset for edit sessions

Locking survey projects for edit sessions
Tracking Analyst
Getting more help
Help for developers