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- Page 3: Contents 1 Introducing ArcCatalog 1
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- Page 10 and 11: What can you do with ArcCatalog? Af
- Page 12 and 13: Search for maps and data If you kno
- Page 14 and 15: Tips on learning ArcCatalog This bo
- Page 16 and 17: Exercise 1: Building a catalog of g
- Page 18 and 19: When the Catalog already contains a
- Page 20 and 21: Exercise 2: Exploring data and addi
- Page 22 and 23: 13. Click the tin_study TIN dataset
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- Page 46 and 47: Starting ArcCatalog Starting ArcCat
- Page 48 and 49: Browsing through the Catalog Browsi
- Page 50 and 51: When browsing through a long list o
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times, allowing you to keep track o
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Tip Searching for words within a to
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What’s in the Catalog? 4 IN THIS
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Maps, layers, and graphs You can ac
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Coverages and INFO tables Coverages
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Personal geodatabases let you manag
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Raster datasets contain a rectangul
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CAD drawings You can access CAD dra
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SDC data ArcCatalog provides read-o
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Address locators An address locator
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ArcGIS servers The GIS Servers fold
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Coordinate systems There are two ty
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Building the Catalog 5 IN THIS CHAP
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Adding spatial database connections
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Adding OLE DB connections 1. Double
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Tip Working with GIS servers You wo
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username or password isn’t saved
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Hiding folders and items 1. Click t
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tab in the Options dialog box. If y
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Tip Editing a file type Edit the pr
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Viewing an item’s contents In the
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Working in Details view Sometimes y
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Changing the columns you see When y
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its short name as defined in the CS
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Organizing your data With ArcCatalo
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Converting data to a different form
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Previewing an item’s geographic d
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you decide whether or not you’ve
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Tip Seeing the entire dataset After
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Creating thumbnails 1. In the Catal
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Previewing the values in a table Th
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columns remain fixed. Freezing a ta
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Tip Rearranging frozen columns Afte
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Sorting records in a table Sorting
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Finding values in a table Occasiona
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Adding and deleting columns When ex
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Creating new data sources from the
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9. Click the Save as type dropdown
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Exploring an item’s metadata The
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Metadata for folders While metadata
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Creating and updating metadata By d
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Importing and exporting metadata Im
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Writing documentation Automatically
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Editing metadata Two metadata edito
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which entry is currently displayed.
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Adding enclosures Documentation suc
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Requirements for publishing to an A
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esources describing barracks, train
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Preparing metadata for publication
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FGDC and ISO metadata elements. If
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loaded into the database as the doc
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Managing published documents Once a
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Creating relationships between docu
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Searching for items Defining the na
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Searching with geographic criteria
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Searching with temporal criteria Th
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Defining a general range of time 1
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Exploring the results of your searc
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Selecting a shortcut’s original i
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Opening a map Opening an existing m
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Creating layers It takes time to an
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Creating a layer from the data 1. R
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Creating a group layer from the dat
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data using this method. However, if
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Joining attributes using a relation
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Creating new shapefiles and dBASE t
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Adding and deleting attributes Addi
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Creating and updating indexes With
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Defining a shapefile’s coordinate
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2. Navigate to the coordinate syste
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Tip Modifying default parameters Wh
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Modifying a coordinate system’s p
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ArcInfo and ArcEditor Creating a ne
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ArcInfo and ArcEditor Generating to
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ArcInfo and ArcEditor Defining a co
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ArcInfo and ArcEditor Defining a co
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ArcInfo and ArcEditor Modifying a c
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ArcInfo and ArcEditor Recalculating
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ArcInfo and ArcEditor Maintaining a
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ArcInfo and ArcEditor Adding a rede
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ArcInfo and ArcEditor Deleting an a
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ArcInfo and ArcEditor What is a rel
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ArcInfo and ArcEditor Creating a co
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ArcInfo and ArcEditor 13. Click the
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Raster dataset properties A raster
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When you select a geodatabase raste
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Changing raster dataset previewing
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Not all raster datasets have file e
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or a TIN. If the raster dataset alr
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Setting a nongrid raster dataset’
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You cannot build pyramids on a rast
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Additional raster dataset file info
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Customizing ArcCatalog 15 IN THIS C
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Customizing toolbars Hiding and sho
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Displaying toolbars with large icon
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Tip Creating access keys All menus
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Tip Why open the Customize dialog b
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Changing a command’s appearance G
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Changing the caption 1. Show the to
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Removing a shortcut key 1. Click th
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window. To add your macro to a spec
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Creating custom commands with VBA A
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Working with UIControls If you crea
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Updating the ArcID module 1. Click
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Using the ArcObjects Developer Help
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ArcStorm database An ArcStorm datab
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command 1. An instruction to a comp
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datum In the most general sense, an
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feature class A collection of geogr
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Geospatial Data Clearinghouse A dec
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layout view In ArcMap and ArcReader
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overshoot The portion of an arc dig
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aster A spatial data model that def
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shapefile A vector data storage for
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updated automatically; they will go
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VPF feature class See feature class
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Index Symbols .rrd files 231 A Acce
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Content Theme (continued) categorie
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Feature classes. See also data sour
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J Joins 35, 174-175, 175, 176. See
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R Raster. See also data sources ban
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Tolerances (continued) fuzzy 195, 2