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Manual Arcgis

Graphic text and objects can be used to label features and areas on a map as well as create map elements like titles and legends. The title, north arrow, scale bar, and legend on the sample map are all composed of graphic objects. The ArcMap interface consists of a table of contents and display windows along with toolbars and menus. The table of contents lists the layers in the map document and allows users to control layer display properties. It provides different views like Display, Source, and Selection tabs to organize layers.

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Manual Arcgis

Graphic text and objects can be used to label features and areas on a map as well as create map elements like titles and legends. The title, north arrow, scale bar, and legend on the sample map are all composed of graphic objects. The ArcMap interface consists of a table of contents and display windows along with toolbars and menus. The table of contents lists the layers in the map document and allows users to control layer display properties. It provides different views like Display, Source, and Selection tabs to organize layers.

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1 Introduction

Feature labels (street names in this map) are created for each feature. Theyre
placed automatically and cant be edited individually.

Graphic text is used to quickly label individual features. It can also be used to
create labels for general locations not represented by specific features, such as
the civic center area shown on this map.

Graphic objects

Graphic objects, such as circles or boxes, are used to highlight the data thats displayed in
the map document. Graphic objects, along with graphic text, are also used to create map
elements, such as titles, neatlines, legends, scalebars, and north arrows, that describe the
information on your map.

The title, north arrow, scalebar, and legend are all composed of graphic objects,
as is the blue circle on the map.

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Using ArcGIS Desktop


The ArcMap interface

The ArcMap interface consists of the two main windowsthe table of contents and display
windowsalong with a number of standard and specialized toolbars and menus.
The table of contents

The table of contents lists the data frames and layers in the map document, and shows you
the current symbols for each layer. Use the check boxes to turn layers on and off. Drag
layers up or down in the table of contents to change the drawing order (layers higher in the
list draw on top).

Click and drag a layer to


change the order.

The table of contents is also where you control how layers are drawn, via context menus
(right-click a layer name to display the menu). You can change the colors and patterns used
to draw features, label features, and more.

The tabs at the bottom of the table of contents window present different views of the layer
list. The Display tab is the default, and is the one youll use when displaying and querying
datait shows a simple list of all the layers, organized by data frame (group layers are used
to manage several layers as a unit). The Source tab is useful when youre editing datait
shows the layers organized by where their underlying dataset is stored (either in a folder
or a geodatabase). It also lets you see other nonlayer data stored with your map, such as
tables not associated with a geographic dataset. The Selection tab gives you an overview of
selected subsets of data that are currently active, and lets you set selectable layers.
Folder

Checked box indicates


layer available for selection

Geodatabase

Bold indicates layer having


a selected subset

Data frame
Layer
Group Layer

The Display tab

The Selection tab

The Source tab

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