Presenting Data and Final Review

Homework

Hands-on Exercises from Textbook
Chapter 18: Making Maps from Templates
- Exercise 18a, p. 482: Opening a Map Template
  - Show map at Step 14, p. 487.
- Exercise 18b, p. 488: Adding x,y Data to a Map
  - Show map at Step 14, p. 493.
- Exercise 18c, p. 494: Drawing Graphics on a Map
  - Show map at Step 18, p. 499.
Chapter 19: Making Maps for Presentation
- Exercise 19a, p. 503: Laying Out the Page
  - Map will be shown in part d.
- Exercise 19b, p. 512: Adding a Title
  - Map will be shown in part d.
- Exercise 19c, p. 521: Adding a North Arrow, a Scale Bar, and a Legend
  - Map will be shown in part d.
- Exercise 19d, p. 530: Adding Final Touches and Selecting Print Options
  - Show map at Step 19, p. 534.

Be prepared to answer the following questions from Ormsby, Chapters 18 (Making Maps Quickly) and 18 (Making Maps for Presentation).

 
CHAPTER 18: MAKING MAPS FROM TEMPLATES

1. What are map elements? P. 481
2. What are templates? P. 481
3. How are templates created? P. 482
4. What is a graticule? P. 483
5. How do you change the graticule? P. 486-488
6. Which is less involved, adding address data by 
geocoding or adding x-y data? P. 488
7. How do you add x-y data? Pp. 489-492
8. How do you connect x,y dots? P. 496
9. How do you add text? P. 497-498
10. How do you get your map over to PowerPoint? P. 500
11. What is Geography Network? Not in book; see Explore section.

CHAPTER 19: MAKING MAPS FOR PRESENTATION

1. How to you go to Layout view? P. 503
2. What are data frames? Pp. 504-505
3. How do you set landscape mode printing? P. 505
4. What are guides? Pp. 505-506
5.  How do you move and resize data frames? Pp. 507-509
6. How do you set the scale? P. 510
7. How do you save a layout? P. 511
8. In Layout view, what can you do from the Insert menu? 
Pp. 512-520
9. Where do you set font and font size? P. 514
10. How do you nudge location? P. 515
11. How do you group elements for purposes of 
moving jointly? Pp. 515-516
12. How do you create elementary shapes like 
rectangles? P. 516-517
13. How do you print from layout? P. 533

Final Review

Tim Ormsby et al. (2001). Getting To Know ArcGIS Desktop. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.

CHAPTER 10: SELECTING FEATURES BY LOCATION
1. What is "selecting by location" as opposed to "selecting by attribute"? P. 262
2. Give several examples of spatial relationships. P. 263
3. What is the selection layer (ex., neighborhoods on p. 266)? Pp. 263, 266
4. What is the reference layer (ex., freeways on p. 266)? Pp. 263, 266
5. How do you select by location in ArcMap? Pp. 265-268
6. How do you select by location and by attribute? P. 267
7. In Layer Properties, what does the Definition Query tab do? 
How is it different from an "attribute query"?  Pp. 276-277
8. What is a spatial join? Pp. 280-281

CHAPTER 11: PREPARING DATA FOR ANALYSIS
1. What three data prep operations are discussed in this chapter? P. 284
2. When might a public administrator wish to dissolve features? (Not in book)
3. How do you dissolve features? Pp. 287-291
4. How do you create a graph based on an attribute? Pp.295-297
5. What does clipping do? P. 300
6. How do you clip a layer? How do you create a new layer from a 
selection? p. 301-306
7. What is another way to create a new layer, besides dissolving 
and clipping? P. 307
8. How do you export a selection? Pp. 307-312

CHAPTER 12: ANALYZING SPATIAL DATA
1. What is a buffer? What is an overlay? Pp. 314-316 
2. What are the two types of overlay? P. 315.
3. What are the two ways to create a buffer? Which is by 
far the more common? P. 316
4. How do you buffer a feature? Pp. 317-323 
5. How do you do an intersect overlay? P. 326
6. How do you do a union overlay? Pp. 327-331. 
7. How can you define a layer to display only if an attribute 
has a given value? Pp. 337-338
8. How can you fill in cells in an attribute column other than 
manually? Pp. 338-340
9. How can you see descriptive statistics and a frequency 
histogram for a field? P. 340

CHAPTER 13: PROJECTING DATA IN ARCMAP
1. What is projection? Pp. 345
2. Explain GCS and PCS and relate these to the issue of map 
distortions. Pp. 344-347
3. How can you find out the GCS and PCS of a map? Of a 
layer? P. 348
4. What is "on the fly" projection? Pp. 348-349
5. What is the .prj alternative to "on the fly" projection? Pp. 361-367
6. What is the dragging method of adding a new layer to ArcMap?
 P. 354-355.
7. How do you change the coordinate system of a data frame in 
ArcMap? Pp. 356-357
8. How do you copy a layer from one geodatabase to another in 
the ArcMap toc? (The text had 3 frames - Alaska, Hawaii, 
Lower 48 - each was a geodatabase) pp. 358-359.
9. What is a .prj file? What does it do? P. 362
10.  What if you are missing the .prj projection data file for a 
dataset? P. 364-367
11.  Is copying/pasting the same as on-the-fly projection once you 
have defined a projection in a .prj file? Pp. 368-369

CHAPTER 14: BUILDING GEODATABASES
1. What does a geodatabase function as? Pp. 372-373
2. How do you create a .mdb file? Pp. 374-378
3. How do you add features to an existing .mdb file? 
Pp. 378-380
4. How do you make file extensions show if they aren't? P. 375
5. What is a spatial domain? Pp. 391-393. 
6. What is precision? P. 381
7. What is a spatial reference? P. 381
8. How do you create a feature class? Pp. 381-388
9. How do you add fields to a feature class you just created, 
or to an existing one? Pp. 389-391
10.  How do you create a domain? Pp. 391-393 
11. How do you apply a domain to a feature class? 
Pp. 391-395

CHAPTER 15: CREATING FEATURES
1. In a line which changes directions between two endpoints, 
what do you call the points at which direction changes (or 
where there is an intersection)? P. 396
2. What do you call the line segments between two vertices 
or endpoints? P. 396
3. How, in general, do you digitize features on a map? 
Pp. 398-400
4.  What is snapping? P. 401
5. What does Auto Complete Polygon do? P. 407
6. How would you draw a line parallel to an existing one? P. 408
7. How would you draw a line of a set length? P. 409
8. When might you want to use the Distance-Distance sketch 
tool? Pp. 411-412
9. What does Square and Finish do? Pp. 416-417

CHAPTER 16: EDITING FEATURES AND ATTRIBUTES
1. How do you delete a feature? Pp. 421-423
2. How do you change the shape of a feature? Pp. 425-426
3. What is the difference between moving a vertice shared 
between two polygons, with the Edit Tool vs. the 
Shared Edit Tool? Pp. 426-428
4. How do you split a polygon? Pp. 432-436
5. How do you merge polygons? Pp. 438-439
6. How do you change selected feature attribute values? 
Pp. 440-443
7. How do you change all feature attribute values, such 
as for a new field? Pp. 444-447 

CHAPTER 17: GEOCODING ADDRESSES
1. What is geocoding? P. 448
2. What happens if you geocode address data to a 
reference polygon layer, such as zip codes? Pp. 448-449
3. What is output as a result of geocoding? P. 449
4. What is an address locator? P. 450
5. What does the Source tab do at the bottom of the toc? 
P. 451
6. How do you create an address locator? Pp. 459-466
7. How do you find an address using an address locator 
you created? Pp. 465-469
8. How do you geocode a set of addresses using an address 
locator you created? Pp. 451-457
9. What is re-matching and how do you do it? Pp. 467-478

CHAPTER 18: MAKING MAPS FROM TEMPLATES
1. What are map elements? P. 481
2. What are templates? P. 481
3. How are templates created? P. 482
4. What is a graticule? P. 483
5. How do you change the graticule? P. 486-488
6. Which is less involved, adding address data by 
geocoding or adding x-y data? P. 488
7. How do you add x-y data? Pp. 489-492
8. How do you connect x,y dots? P. 496
9. How do you add text? P. 497-498
10. How do you get your map over to PowerPoint? P. 500
11. What is Geography Network? Not in book; see Explore section.

CHAPTER 19: MAKING MAPS FOR PRESENTATION
1. How to you go to Layout view? P. 503
2. What are data frames? Pp. 504-505
3. How do you set landscape mode printing? P. 505
4. What are guides? Pp. 505-506
5.  How do you move and resize data frames? Pp. 507-509
6. How do you set the scale? P. 510
7. How do you save a layout? P. 511
8. In Layout view, what can you do from the Insert menu? 
Pp. 512-520
9. Where do you set font and font size? P. 514
10. How do you nudge location? P. 515
11. How do you group elements for purposes of 
moving jointly? Pp. 515-516
12. How do you create elementary shapes like 
rectangles? P. 516-517
13. How do you print from layout? P. 533

CHAPTER 20: CREATING MODELS
1.   What is ModelBuilder? What is a "model"?  (p. 538)
2. In a model diagram, what is a blue oval? A green oval? 
A yellow rectangle? (p. 538)
3. When does modeling greatly speed up your work? 
When not? How? (pp. 538-539)
4. Where in the menu system is help on ModelBuilder? (p. 539)
5.  Where do you create/store models? How do you name them?  
What is the file extension?  (pp. 540-541)
6. After storing an empty model, how do you invoke 
ModelBuiler to create its name? (p. 543).
7.   How is a model dragged into ArcMap? Is this the 
only method? (pp. 544-545)
8. Once we have a model in ArcMap, how do we put an 
actual diagram into it? (pp. 545-546)
9.  How do we set the process for the parameters we want 
on its next run? (pp. 547-548)
10. In ModelBuilder, how do you actually run the model?  
How do you get output to show in ArcMap? (p. 548)
11.  In the diagram, what do drop shadows indicate? (p. 549)
12. What is the purpose of section 20b? (p. 550)
13.  How do you add a second process to ModelBuilder? (pp 551-552).
14. How can you automatically align your diagram in 
ModelBuilder? (p. 553).
15. Why does Ormsby then add a Union process to the 
iagram? (pp. 553-554)
16. How do you label an output oval? (p. 556).
17.  If we stopped with NoCutArea output, would we have a map 
of the entire area F? What is the last step? (pp. 557 - 560).
18. What is the point of Exercise 20c? (p. 562).
19. How do we create a new layer of selected features within 
ModelBuilder? (pp. 563-565)
20. Why does Ormsby need to use the Calculate Field tool 
next? (pp. 567 - 570)
21. How do you get the bar chart of stand values showing 
on p. 571?

Explore

You may be interested in the questions and answers from a work previously assigned in this class:

Andy Mitchell, The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis: Vol. 1: Geographic Patterns and Relationships. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press, 1999.
Michael Zeiler, Modeling Our World: The Esri Guide to Geodatabase Design. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press, 1999.
Yue-Hong Chou, Exploring Spatial Analysis in Geographic Information Systems (Santa Fe, NM: Onword Press, 1997).
G. David Garson and Robert S. Biggs, Analytic Mapping and Geographic Databases (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1992). Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences No. 87.