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What's new in ArcGIS 9.2 Migration guides Migrating from ArcView GIS 3 to ArcView 9 Migrating from ArcInfo Workstation to ArcGIS Desktop

Getting started

Map projections and coordinate systems

Getting started with map projections Geographic coordinate systems About geographic coordinate systems Spheroids and spheres Datums North American datums What happens to features at +/-180 (dateline)? Projected coordinate systems About projected coordinate systems About map projections Projection types Planar projections Conic projections Cylindrical projections Other projections Projection parameters Geographic transformations Supported map projections List of supported map projections Aitoff Alaska Grid Alaska Series E Albers Equal Area Conic Azimuthal Equidistant Behrmann Equal Area Cylindrical Bipolar Oblique Conformal Conic Bonne Cassini-Soldner Chamberlin Trimetric Craster Parabolic Cube Cylindrical Equal Area Double Stereographic Eckert I Eckert II Eckert III Eckert IV Eckert V Eckert VI Equidistant Conic Equidistant Cylindrical Equirectangular Fuller Gall's Stereographic Gauss-Kruger Geocentric Coordinate System Geographic Coordinate System Gnomonic Great Britain National Grid Hammer-Aitoff Hotine Oblique Mercator Krovak Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area Lambert Conformal Conic Local Cartesian Projection Loximuthal McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Quartic Mercator Miller Cylindrical Mollweide New Zealand National Grid Orthographic Perspective Plate Carree Polar Stereographic Polyconic Quartic Authalic Rectified Skewed Orthomorphic Robinson Simple Conic Sinusoidal Space Oblique Mercator State Plane Coordinate System Stereographic Times projection Transverse Mercator Two-Point Equidistant Universal Polar Stereographic Universal Transverse Mercator Van der Grinten I Vertical Near-Side Perspective Winkel I Winkel II Winkel Tripel Vertical coordinate systems About vertical coordinate systems Vertical datums Geoid

Mapping and visualization

An overview of mapping and visualization Using ArcMap Working with layers Adding layers to a map Adding x,y coordinate data as a layer Changing a layer's drawing order Changing a layer's text description Setting layer properties Managing group layers Saving a layer to disk Copying layers Displaying layers at certain scales Displaying a subset of features in a layer Repairing broken data links Viewing a layer's metadata in ArcMap GIS service layers Navigating and interacting with maps Navigating maps and layout pages Looking at a map in data view and layout view Quick ways to navigate maps and pages Moving around the map Setting the map scale Saving and navigating to favorite places Working with spatial bookmarks Opening magnifier, viewer, and overview windows Setting a custom extent for the map's full extent Working with data frame reference scales Working with the map cache Interacting with maps Adding graphics and text to maps Symbolizing data Applying symbology Styles and symbols Animation Using cartographic representations Getting started with representations Representation concepts Working with representations Editing feature representations Page layout and map composition Working with graphs and reports Looking at data with graphs About looking at data with graphs Types of graphs Sources of information to graph Using Series with graphs Creating a graph Setting the colors of a graph Displaying a graph Graph options Modifying a graph Adding a function Managing graphs Saving and loading a graph Exporting a graph Interactive querying of graphs Working with graphs in Layout Using graph templates Further information about graph types Using the advanced properties Creating pre-ArcGIS 9.2 style graphs (Pre-ArcGIS 9.2) Looking at data with graphs About looking at data with graphs (Pre-ArcGIS 9.2) Types of graphs (Pre-ArcGIS 9.2) Creating a graph (Pre-ArcGIS 9.2) Displaying a graph (Pre-ArcGIS 9.2) Modifying a graph (Pre-ArcGIS 9.2) Creating a static copy of a graph (Pre-ArcGIS 9.2) Managing graphs (Pre-ArcGIS 9.2) Saving and loading a graph (Pre-ArcGIS 9.2) Exporting a graph (Pre-ArcGIS 9.2) Enabling pre-ArcGIS 9.2 style graphing Creating reports About reports Creating a simple report Setting the report type and size Working with fields in reports Organizing report data Adding report elements Controlling the presentation of a report Saving and loading a report Using Crystal Reports

Editing and data compilation

Geoprocessing

Geoprocessing tool reference

Geodatabases and ArcSDE

Data management with ArcCatalog

Data support in ArcGIS

Extensions

Geocoding and address management

Linear referencing

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