ArcView Tips and Tutorials

Note: For ArcGIS 8.2, see ArcGIS 8.2 Tips and Tutorials

Site Contents

• GIS Data Available for Download
• General - Working with Files
• General - Working with ArcView
• Cartography tips
• Data Creation and Manipulation
• Attribute Tables in ArcView, Excel, and Access
• Vector data and analysis (points, lines, and polygons)
• Raster (grid) data and analysis (including Digital Elevation Models - DEMs)
• 3-D Analysis
• Working with SSURGO Soils data
• GPS Resources and Instructions

General - Working with Files

• Sending files between computers in the lab using FTP
• File Transfer with WS-FTP (PC)
• File Transfer with Fetch (Macintosh)
• Decompressing files compressed with the WinZip utility

General - Working with ArcView

• Getting help with Arcview
• Other Web Sites with ArcView Tips
• ArcView Scripts and Extensions
• Cartography tips

Data Creation and Manipulation

• Creating a subset  theme of a larger theme (for shape files only)
• Creating a subset image of a larger image
• Using digital ortho-photos with Austin and Round Rock GIS data
• Aligning an image file to a shape file or geo-referenced image file
• Digitizing a map (table and heads-up)
• Importing .e00 files with Import71
• Projecting coverages from one projection to another using the Projector extension

Attribute Tables

• Working with tables in and out of ArcView
• Changing an attribute field from numeric to string and vice versa
• Integrating ArcView and Microsoft Access
• Saving Excel files in dBase format

Vector Analysis

• Measuring Distance in ArcView
• Calculating Area, Perimeter and Length in ArcView
  (see also the Conversion Table for changing measurement units (Peter Wallin)
• Overlays in ArcView - Aggregating information from one theme into another (Spatial Joins)

Spatial (Raster Grid) Analysis

• Importing USGS Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data
• Working with Digital Elevation Models (DEM) (Merging, Re-projecting, Creating Shaded Relief Maps)
• Creating a Digital Elevation Grid with x, y, and z units all in the same unit
• Creating a slope map from DEM (Important info about ArcView Spatial Analyst "derive slope" funtion)
• Creating an aspect map from a DEM
• Managing Grids and Creating Permanent Grid Themes in Spatial Analyst
• Terrain Modeling with ArcView GIS from ArcUser magaine - this is a comprehensive set of tutorials explaining how to download, process, and use a variety of USGS data products.
• Everything You Want To Know About SDTS (from the GeoCommunity web site for tutorials, software utilities, etc., particularly related to DEMs in SDTS format)
• Experimental project: neighborhood boundary perception

3-D Analysis

• Creating a 3-D TIN with ArcView 3-D Analyst (do this as the first step to create a slope or aspect grid from contour line data)