Exploring Spatial Information using ArcGIS Pro

This video explores the Start Page of ArcGIS Pro where you can access Help, sign in/out of ArcGIS Online or a Portal, create New projects and open existing projects from a Recent projects list or by browsing.

This video uses the Start Page of ArcGIS Pro to create New projects using the Catalog, Global Scene and Local Scene templates, and also how to Start without a template.

This video introduces you to viewing the Help Pages of ArcGIS Pro which are available Online, or can optionally be Installed and used offline.

This video explores the many tabs on the Project Page of ArcGIS Pro and shows how to navigate between the Start and Project Pages.

This video explores the tabs on the Ribbon of the User interface and the buttons above that. Some of these are grouped into the Quick Access Toolbar.

This video explores some of the pane and view types that can appear below the Ribbon on the User Interface. These include Contents, Catalog and Geoprocessing panes, and Map, Catalog and Scene views.

This video shows changing extent of Map view using mouse (zoom/pan), button (Full Extent, Fixed Zoom), Bookmark, Go To XY, shortcut key (rotate, back to North, switch tool), scale value, Locate tool.

This video uses the List By Drawing Order and List By Data Source views of the Contents pane to toggle visibility, change drawing order and change basemaps.

This video uses the Contents pane to add, remove and re-order layers, the Add Data button to add data by browsing/path, and the Catalog pane to drag and drop, create folder connections and favorites.

This video uses various configurations of the Pop-up tool (Topmost Layer, Visible Layers, Selectable Layers, Selected in Contents) to identify features. We also set No Pop-ups, and Disable Pop-ups on individual layers. We show how URL values in fields can be used as hyperlinks to web pages from the Pop-up pane.

This video uses the Configure Pop-ups pane to configure Fields, Text, Charts and Images on Pop-ups. The image that we configure is hosted on Wikimedia Commons and its web page is hyperlinked to.

This video first creates a file geodatabase table; adds fields for site identifier, latitude and longitude; populates these fields with values; and then uses the XY Table To Point tool to convert rows in the table into points in a feature class.

This video shows how to configure properties of layers (including ArcGIS Online basemaps) and labels to toggle visibility based on the current map scale either side of or between scale ranges.

This video will write, remove, combine, activate and deactivate definition queries which are properties of layers that allow us to filter them using SQL where clauses.

This video uses six ways to select features interactively using a mouse by rectangle, polygon, circle, lasso, line and trace. To show what has been selected it uses the List By Selection view of the Contents pane, the Attribute Table view, and then the Attributes pane to pop-up information from it.

This video explores the Selection Options to create new selections, add to existing selections, remove from existing selections and select from within existing selections. It shows shortcut keys to do this more smoothly than returning to the Selection Options dialog to press radio buttons. Other options display the interactive selection graphic, show the selection chip and Keep invisible features selected with a new selection.

This video mainly uses the Select By Attributes tool to construct SQL where clauses for selecting features, but it also uses the Buffer, Feature Class to Feature Class, and Select tools to show how selected sets of features can be buffered and exported to create new feature classes.

This video mainly uses the Select By Location tool to select features in one layer using the geometry of features in another layer. It also combines such spatial selections with selections by attribute and interactive selections using a mouse to create a simple workflow.

This video sets three challenges to use the Select Layer By Attributes and Select Layer By Location tools within workflows that include testing the proximity of features in one layer to those in another.

This video uses the Locate and Infographics tools to find two places and access their demographic and landscape data via the Esri GeoEnrichment service.

This video uses the Measure Tool to measure lengths, areas and features in units of meters, kilometres, miles and square kilometres with and without point snapping and vertex snapping to improve their accuracy.

This video shows six ways that the Contents pane can be viewed using its List By Drawing Order, Data Source, Selection, Editing, Snapping and Labeling options. Each view provides additional ways that the contents of a Map can be interacted with beyond those in the default List By Drawing Order.

This video uses layer groups to group layers into a hierarchy so that groupings of layers can have properties like their visibility and visibility ranges altered together instead of just by individual layers.

This video uses the Symbology pane and its two main tabs (Gallery and Properties) to assign a Single Symbol to point, line and polygon layers. For some symbols we also access the Layers tab to alter the properties of individual symbol layers within a symbol.

This video uses the Unique Values symbol renderer to set default symbols for each value first, and then performs modifications to those symbols to change their groupings, color and shading (including a gradient fill).

This video shows how to render two layers using fields with numeric values. First a polygon layer is rendered using graduated colors, then a point layer is rendered using graduated symbols by size, and normalized as a percentage of the total.

This video shows five more ways to symbolize layers by using Unclassed colors, Proportional symbols, Dot Density, Charts and Heat Maps.

This video first copies a Natural Earth shapefile into the project’s default geodatabase, and adds a field named COLOR to it which is calculated to store a hexadecimal color value. This field is used to configure attribute driven colors, and then selections of features are calculated to different colors using the hexadecimal, RGB and CMYK color models.

This video looks at the Effects button group where we can adjust transparency, swipe (peel back) and flicker (blink) both layers and layer groups.

This video uses the Label Class pane and the Feature Layer | Labeling ribbon to modify labelling properties of a layer like: font size; halo color, size and outline size; and placement in center or repeated along border.

This video uses the Label Class pane and the Feature Layer | Labeling ribbon to View Unplaced labels, and modify labelling properties of a point layer (anchor point position, rotation, fitting strategy, font size, font reduction) and also of a line layer (centering on lines, using halo to mask label against feature).

This video uses the Label Class pane and the Feature Layer | Labeling ribbon to modify labelling properties of a polygon layer (boundary,horizontal, straight and curved labeling) and sets a challenge that involves using the Clip Layer property of the Map.

This video creates three label classes within a layer that has a point feature class as its source, and this is done so that different label properties can be assigned to subsets of features within that layer. There is a challenge set to have you create the second and third label classes after you are shown how to do the first one.

This video uses the Arcade programming language and Text Formatting Tags to write Label Expressions that: concatenate field values and strings; turn field values to uppercase; format integer numbers with thousand separators; and change font bolding, size, name and color.

This video uses the Python programming language and Text Formatting Tags to write Label Expressions that: concatenate field values and strings; turn field values to uppercase; format integer numbers with thousand separators; and change font bolding, size, name and color.

This video examines the Layer Properties available on the General (name and visibility range), Metadata and Source tabs. To illustrate the Set Data Source option a shapefile is copied to a file geodatabase feature class using an SQL clause to only copy a single feature. The copied polygon is then projected from WGS 1984 to an Albers coordinate system.

This video examines the Layer Properties available on the Selection, Joins and Relates tabs. The color of the symbol used to display selections on one particular layer is changed, and the option to automatically select related data is used. Populations of countries are joined to cities within them so that an Arcade expression can be used to label those cities with the percentage of their country’s population that live in them.

This video examines the Layer Properties available on the Time and Range tabs. We configure a temporal layer so that a time slider appears on our map view and then we add a range to the layer to see a range slider appear on the map.

This video examines the Layer Properties available on the Definition Query, Display, Cache and Indexes tabs. We will undertake a brief challenge to set a Definition Query, and then see how to configure MapTips, how to stop a layer’s symbology scaling when a reference scale is set, and how to create spatial and attribute indexes.

This video examines the Map Properties available on the General tab. Here we can change the map name, its display units (e.g. decimal degrees, degrees minutes seconds, UTM), its reference scale, its rotation and its background color.

This video examines the Map Properties available on the Extent and Clip Layers tabs. The Extent tab controls the extent to which the Full Extent button sets a Map view while the Clip Layers tab can graphically clip some or all layers using an extent or layer features.

This video examines the Map Properties available on the Coordinate Systems and Transformations tabs using Web Mercator and WGS 1984 globally and Australian projections and datums of MGA Zone 56 and GDA 2020

This video examines the Map Properties available on the remaining tabs. We capture some metadata for the map, and view it in the Catalog view. We change the color for unplaced labels, and see how labels can be rotated when a Map view is rotated.