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Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop Help
Copyright information
GIS Dictionary
What's new in ArcGIS
Getting started
Map projections and coordinate systems
Mapping and visualization
Editing and data compilation
Geoprocessing
Geoprocessing tool reference
Geodatabases and ArcSDE
An overview of the Geodatabase
Architecture of a geodatabase
Designing a geodatabase
Building a geodatabase
Data management workflows, transactions, and versioning
Geodatabase data storage and schema
How geodatabases are stored in a DBMS
Feature geometry and raster data storage
Inside a geodatabase in Oracle
Inside a geodatabase in SQL Server
Inside a geodatabase in DB2
Inside a geodatabase in Informix
Administering ArcSDE geodatabases
Administering File and Personal geodatabases
Working with geodatabases using SQL
An overview of working with a geodatabase using SQL
Spatial relationships
Spatial operations
SQL implementation differences
Using spatial types with SQL
SQL functions reference
Data management with ArcCatalog
An overview of ArcCatalog
About workspaces
Getting started with ArcCatalog
Building the Catalog
Managing the Catalog's contents
Exploring an item's geography
Searching for items
Working with metadata
About metadata
Metadata standards and the ArcGIS metadata format
Exploring an item's metadata
Changing the default stylesheet
Printing metadata
Creating and updating metadata
Metadata synchronization
Writing metadata documentation
Importing and exporting metadata with ArcCatalog
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
Adding custom places to a Gazetteer Metadata Service
Customizing metadata
Data support in ArcGIS
Extensions
Geocoding and address management
Linear referencing
Getting started with linear referencing
Creating route feature classes
Displaying and querying routes feature classes
Displaying and querying route events
Editing routes
Creating and editing event data
Working with route event data
Network analysis
Mobile GIS
Interoperability and standards support
Customizing and developing with ArcGIS
Guide to data that comes with ArcGIS
Licensing and desktop administration
ArcGIS Image Server
GIS Servers and services
An overview of GIS services
Servers and the services they provide
User, author, administrator, and developer roles
Types of ArcIMS services
Types of services in ArcGIS Server
WMS service
Using GIS Services in ArcGIS Desktop applications
Thinking about maps in web-enabled GIS applications
Understanding map caches in ArcGIS
Managing server connections in the GIS Servers folder
Authoring and publishing services
Administering ArcGIS Server with ArcCatalog