Thursday, April 12, 2012

W13 Loose Ends Part 1 & 2

Loose Ends Part 1


PART II: Process Summary Details

1)      Open ArcMap
2)      Select Data_Editing_BED, click Open
3)      Crtl-click to select multiple layers
4)      Right-click a layer and select Group
5)      Rename New Group Layer to County by clicking on it twice and typing in the new name
6)      Right-click on ‘Group Layer’ and select Ungroup
7)      Select Create under Graphs below the View drop-down
8)      Select Vertical Bar under Graph type and Buildings under Layer/Table
9)      Select Height under Value field
10)  Select Building under X label field
11)  Leave Match with Layer under Color
12)  Select New Series under the Add tab to add another dataset
13)  Click Next and then Finish
14)  Right-click on the graph to view Properties and/or Advanced Properties
15)  Right-click again on the graph and select Add to Layout, your graph should appear in the map layout
16)  Switch to Layout View if it did not automatically switch
17)  Close out all maps in ArcMap
18)  On the Layout toolbar, click Change Layout
19)  Click the Open File in the lower right hand corner
20)  Navigate to a saved map that you would like to use as a template and select it and click Open
21)  Click Finish, in the Data Frame Order window
22)  Now you can the add the data layers you need to perform analysis and you have the template for your map
23)  You will only have to shift item around and add any title and text to each new map
24)  Dynamic text can be used to save time
25)  Insert Text to begin
26)  Items that you want to remain the same each time, just type in the box
27)  Items that you want to change each time or Dynamic will be inside ˂ ˃, left and right arrowhead
28)  The following <dyn type =”date”> is equal to 4/10/2012
29)  The following <dyn type =”date”, format ="dd MMMM yyyy"> is equal to 10 April 2012
30)  Dynamic tags can be used for anything that you want to add to each map
31)  Save map as a template, whatever name you want for future use
32)  Post to Blog and dropbox



Loose Ends Part 2


PART II: Process Summary Details

1)      Copy data from R drive to S drive and unzip
2)      Open Windows Explorer and navigate to a folder that contains GIS data
3)      Double-click on any .mxd file to open it in ArcMap
4)      Right-click on a layer and select Create Layer Package
5)      Select Save package file to and navigate to where you want to store the file
6)      Click Validate, if Share is available, select it and go to step 9, if not go to step 7
7)      If you receive an error, double-click on the line showing error and make any necessary corrections, go back to step 6
8)      You are now ready to share that layer
9)      It can be “Unpacked” in ArcCatalog
10)  To create a Map Package, everything in ArcMap, click on File and select Create Map Package
11)  Select Save package file to and navigate to where you want to store the file
12)  Click Validate, if Share is available, select it and go to step 9, if not go to step 7
13)  If you receive an error, double-click on the line showing error and make any necessary corrections, go back to step 6
14)  You are now ready to share that map
15)  Open the RepairDataSource.mxd from the LooseEnds folder
16)  Open the Layer Properties for one of the layers and go to Source tab
17)  Close the Layer Properties window
18)  Right-click on the Roads layer, click Data, and Repair Data Source
19)  In the Data source window, navigate to the Loosends folder, click on the Roads.shp file and press Add
20)  All reference data in that folder will automatically be added to repair the links
21)  Close the current map and open RelativePathNames.mxd
22)  Click File, open Map Document Properties
23)  Verify ‘Pathnames: Store relative pathnames to data sources” is checked
24)  This allows moving the map and data without loosing  the path to the data
25)  Open the Data Driven Pages Toolbar, then open the Data Driven Pages Setup window
26)  Check the box next to Enable Data Driven Pages and click OK
27)  Click File, Export Map as a PDF
28)  In the Options, under Pages, select Selected
29)  Post items to Blog and dropbox

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