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What's new in ArcGIS Desktop 9.1

What was new in ArcGIS Desktop 9.0

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Desktop Administration

ArcCatalog

Getting started with ArcCatalog Building the Catalog 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 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 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

ArcMap

ArcReader

Geoprocessing in the ArcGIS environment

Geoprocessing tool reference

Building a geodatabase

Editing in ArcMap

Geocoding

Getting started with geocoding 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 Deleting an address locator Locating addresses Additional geocoding techniques Keeping an address locator current Updating your reference data Versioned data and the geocoding index Rebuilding geocoding indexes Distributing your address locator Sharing elements of the geocoding framework Deciding to share an address locator Collecting address locator related files Making your address locator public Accessing distributed address locators Adjusting your address locator file

Linear referencing

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

Customizing the user interface

Migrating from ArcView GIS 3 to ArcView 9

Migrating from ArcInfo Workstation to ArcGIS Desktop

ESRI Data & Maps

Extensions

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Help for developers