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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

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 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 Working with rasters in ArcCatalog

ArcMap

Getting started with ArcMap Creating maps Basics of making maps Creating a new map Adding layers to a map Adding coverages, shapefiles, and geodatabases to a map Adding data from the Internet Adding data from a GIS server Adding TINs as surfaces Adding CAD drawings About coordinate systems and map projections Specifying a coordinate system About creating interactive maps Referencing data in the map Applying a coordinate transformation to a CAD layer About displaying layers About presenting attribute data About map scale Map layout About the map tools About World files Adding x,y coordinate data to a map Managing layers Symbolizing your data Drawing all features with a single symbol Drawing features to show categories Managing categories Ways to map quantitative data Setting a classification About symbolizing data to represent quantity Drawing features to show quantities Drawing features to show multiple attributes Importing the symbology of another layer Using the Eye Dropper tool Drawing TINs as surfaces Drawing CAD layers Drawing a layer transparently Working with reference scales Working with symbol levels Working with variable-depth masking Working with text An overview of working with text Adding new text to a map Working with data frame contents in layout view Organizing annotation into groups About labeling Displaying labels Prioritizing and positioning labels Specifying the text of labels About building label expressions Using text formatting tags About annotation Using feature-linked annotation A comparison of annotation groups vs. geodatabase annotation About coverage annotation pseudo items Displaying geodatabase annotation Displaying CAD and VPF annotation About editing CAD and VPF annotation Displaying coverage and SDE 3 annotation About editing coverage and SDE 3 annotation Displaying MapTips Working with graphics An overview of working with graphics Drawing points, lines, and circles Selecting graphics Moving, rotating, and ordering graphics Aligning, distributing, and grouping graphics Joining graphics Laying out and printing maps Working with styles and symbols About styles Finding the styles you need Creating new symbols and map elements Modifying symbols and map elements Saving the current styles Organizing style contents Creating line symbols Creating fill symbols Creating marker symbols Creating text symbols Working with color Working with color ramps Working with tables Looking at data with graphs Creating reports Querying maps About querying maps Identifying features Displaying a Web page or document about a feature Making hyperlinks with relative pathnames Selecting features interactively Using Select by Attributes Using Select by Graphics About building an SQL expression SQL reference Selecting features according to their location Specifying how selected features highlight Displaying information about selected features Exporting features The Buffer Wizard versus ArcToolbox buffer tools How the Buffer Wizard works with coordinate systems Adding the Buffer Wizard to the Tools menu Using the Buffer Wizard to create buffers around features Using the Buffer Wizard to buffer from selected graphics Joining the attributes of features by their location Using selection layers Analyzing geometric networks Working with rasters in ArcMap About rasters Choosing which raster formats will appear in the Add Data dialog Adding a raster dataset to a map Adding a raster catalog to a map Displaying rasters Improving raster display Displaying the raster resolution Removing the background area of a raster layer Changing the default RGB band combination About projecting raster datasets on-the-fly About georeferencing Georeferencing a raster dataset World files Symbolizing values of nodata in raster datasets Making selections using the geodatabase raster catalog Working with ArcPad An overview of ArcPad Adding the ArcPad toolbar About managing data in ArcPad Getting data for ArcPad Checking in edits from ArcPad Undoing a checkout for editing Working with StreetMap data GPS Support Getting started with ArcMap GPS Support Adding the GPS toolbar Connecting to a GPS device Simulating a connection to a GPS device Using the GPS Position window Changing the display options Keeping the current location in the view Adding a destination Writing GPS locations to a log Tablet PC

ArcReader

Geoprocessing in the ArcGIS environment

Geoprocessing tool reference

Building a geodatabase

Editing in ArcMap

Geocoding

Linear referencing

Map projections

Getting started with map projections An overview of map projections Geographic coordinate systems Projected coordinate systems Geographic transformations Supported 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

Extensions

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