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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 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 About tabular data sources Previewing the values in a table Changing how tables look Calculating statistics Sorting records in a table in ArcCatalog Finding values in a table Adding and deleting columns Creating new data sources from the values in a table Working with metadata About metadata Exploring an item's metadata Changing the default stylesheet Printing metadata Creating and updating metadata Writing documentation 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 Searching for items Working with maps and layers Working with shapefiles 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

Linear referencing

Map projections

Writing geoprocessing scripts

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

Getting started with ESRI Data and Maps Canada Europe Mexico World World Administrative Units World Cities World Continents World Countries (generalized) World Countries 1992 World Countries 2005 World CountryWatch Demographics (table) World Country Memberships of Political Organizations (table) World Drainage Systems World Gazetteer World Lakes World Latitude and Longitude Grids World Named Latitudes and Longitudes World Regions World Rivers World Time Zones World UTM Zones World Wildlife Fund Marine Ecoregions World Wildlife Fund Terrestrial Ecoregions StreetMap USA Image data North America Digital Elevation Model North America Shaded Relief Global Digital Elevation Model (ETOPO2) Global Digital Elevation Model (GTOPO30) Global Imagery 150-meter Resolution Sample High-Resolution Images World at Night World Cloud Free WOrld Shaded Relief World Topography and Bathymetry World with Clouds World with Ice WorldSat Color Shaded Relief United States (census) United States (hydrography) United States (landmarks) United States (other) United States (transportation)

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