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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

Administering the ArcGIS License Manager 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 extension

ArcCatalog

ArcMap

ArcReader

Geoprocessing in the ArcGIS environment

Geoprocessing tool reference

Building a geodatabase

Editing in ArcMap

Getting started with editing in ArcMap Creating new features Using a digitizer Creating features from other features Editing existing features Splitting lines and polygons Trimming lines Extending lines Flipping lines Dividing lines with points Reshaping lines and polygons using a sketch Adding and deleting vertices Moving vertices Changing the properties of a sketch Scaling features Clipping features Stretching a feature's geometry proportionately Smoothing and generalizing features Editing topology Editing attributes Spatial adjustment Editing geometric networks Editing relationships and related objects Editing annotation Editing dimension features

Geocoding

Linear referencing

Map projections

Writing geoprocessing scripts

Customizing the user interface

Migrating from ArcView GIS 3 to ArcView 9

Migrating from ArcInfo Workstation to ArcGIS Desktop

ESRI Data & Maps

Getting started with ESRI Data and Maps Canada Canada FSA postal centroids Canada Highways Canada Indian Reserves Canada Major Cities Canada Middle Cities Canada Municipalities Canada National Parks Canada Provinces Canada Provincial Parks Canada Railways Canada Regional Municipalities Canada Telephone Area Code Boundaries Canada Water Bodies 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 About StreetMap USA Image data United States (census) United States (hydrography) United States Drainage Systems United States Lakes United States National Atlas Water Feature Areas United States National Atlas Water Feature Lines United States Rivers (generalized) United States Rivers and Streams United States Water Bodies United States (landmarks) United States (other) United States National Atlas Federal and Indian Land Areas United States National Atlas Federal Land Lines United States National Atlas Public Land Survey U.S. State Plane Zones (NAD 1927) U.S. State Plane Zones (NAD 1983) USGS Topographic Quadrangle Series Indexes (1:100,000) USGS Topographic Quadrangle Series Indexes (1:24,000) USGS Topographic Quadrangle Series Indexes (1:250,000) United States (transportation) United States Highways United States Major Highways United States Major Roads United States National Atlas Airports United States National Transportation Atlas Interstate Highways United States National Transportation Atlas Railroads United States TANA/GDT Airports United States TANA/GDT Transportation Terminals

Extensions

3D Analyst ArcScan ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension Business Analyst Geostatistical Analyst Maplex Getting started with Maplex An overview of labels and annotation Better labeling with label classes and label expressions Using text formatting tags for labeling Using the map cache to improve geodatabase labeling performance Labeling features of a layer Labeling features of a layer using label classes Creating label classes based on symbology classification Creating label expressions Managing the labels on your map Label placement properties Enabling the Maplex Labeling Engine Setting label placement properties using the Label Manager Setting label ranking Locking the labels in an area Showing unplaced labels Changing the label placement quality Using Maplex to set label positions Label fitting strategies Resolving label conflicts Feature priority Preventing labels from overlapping certain feature classes Setting labels to be background labels Removing duplicate labels within a given radius Making sure all of the labels for a label class are placed Military Analyst Military Overlay Editor Network Analyst Getting started with Network Analyst Network dataset concepts Designing the network dataset Designing the network dataset Building and editing the network dataset Performing network analysis Types of network analyses Network analysis work flow Network locations Load locations from a feature layer Finding the best route Finding a service area Finding the closest facility Creating an OD cost matrix Network Analyst solver behavior Routing with hierarchy Routing with time windows Migrating to ArcGIS Network Analyst Migrating from ArcView GIS Network Analyst Migrating from ArcInfo Workstation Network Migrating from ArcGIS 8.x and 9.0 Network Analyst tools reference Publisher Spatial Analyst Survey Analyst Tracking Analyst

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