Introduction

ArcPad is a field-based extension to your mapping and GIS system. The ability to compare your data directly to geographic features in the real world adds a deeper sense of reality to your GIS database. It also opens many new avenues for field data collection, display, and analysis.

Whether you need to add new pump station locations, take a measurement or locate an address, you can do it in the field with ArcPad. This chapter will guide you through the basics of ArcPad and the ArcPad interface and illustrate how to use the tools provided.