Table Of ContentLearning ArcGIS Pro
Create, analyze, maintain, and share 2D and 3D maps
with the powerful tools of ArcGIS Pro
Tripp Corbin, GISP
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Learning ArcGIS Pro
Copyright © 2015 Packt Publishing
First published: November 2015
Production reference: 1261115
Published by Packt Publishing Ltd.
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Birmingham B3 2PB, UK.
ISBN 978-1-78528-449-6
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Contents
Preface ix
Chapter 1: Introducing ArcGIS Pro 1
Installing ArcGIS Pro 2
ArcGIS Pro minimum system requirements 2
Operating system requirements 2
Hardware requirements 3
Other software requirements 3
Recommendations from the author 4
Downloading the install files 5
Installing ArcGIS Pro 9
Conducting a silent install for IT departments 10
Managing and assigning ArcGIS Pro licenses 11
The number and level of ArcGIS Pro licenses 11
Managing ArcGIS Pro licenses 12
Launching ArcGIS Pro 14
Downloading and installing exercise data 15
Opening an existing ArcGIS Pro project 16
Summary 18
Chapter 2: Using ArcGIS Pro – Navigating through
the Interface 19
Understanding the new interface terminology 20
The ArcGIS Pro interface terminology 20
Using the interface 21
Navigating the ribbon 22
The PROJECT tab 22
The MAP tab 25
Exercise 2A – working with the MAP tab 32
Step 1 – opening a project 32
Step 2 – navigating in the map 33
Step 3 – using the Infographics tool (optional) 38
Contextual tabs 39
The FEATURE LAYER contextual tab 39
The APPEARANCE tab 40
The LABELING tab 40
Exercise 2B – Working with 2D and 3D layers 41
Step 1 – opening the project and adding layers 41
Step 2 – changing symbology 42
Step 3 – labeling 46
Step 4 – working with a 3D layer 47
Summary 50
Chapter 3: Creating and Working with ArcGIS Pro Projects 51
Working with an ArcGIS Pro project 52
Understanding project terminology 52
A project item 52
A portal item 53
A project package 53
The home folder 53
The default geodatabase 53
Using the Project pane 53
Exercise 3A – using the Project pane 56
Step 1 – open and save a project 57
Step 2 – navigating in the Project pane 58
Step 3 – adding a database connection 59
Step 4 – adjusting the layers 61
Step 5 – connecting to ArcGIS server 64
Creating a new project and project templates 66
Creating a new project with Esri templates 67
Exercise 3B – using an Esri template to create a new project 67
Step 1 – creating a new project using the Local scene template 68
Step 2 – connecting to data sources and adding your surface 70
Custom project templates 73
Exercise 3C – creating a custom project template 74
Step 1 – create a project 75
Step 2 – setting up a default map in the template 75
Step 3 – adding a layout from an existing map document 77
Step 4 – saving a project as a template 80
Step 5 – creating a new project using a custom template 82
Summary 83
Chapter 4: Creating 2D Maps 85
Creating and configuring 2D maps 86
Creating a new map 86
Exercise 4A – adding and configuring layers in a map 88
Step 1 – creating the project 88
Step 2 – adding layers 90
Exercise 4B – adding a new map to a project 94
Step 1 – creating the new map 95
Step 2 – filtering a layer with a definition query 96
Step 3 – adding annotation to the map 99
Exercise 4C – using map and layer files 99
Step 1 – adding a new map using a map file 100
Step 2 – creating and using a layer file 101
Step 3 – labeling 101
Step 4 – configuring label conflict and placement options 102
Challenge 104
Summary 104
Chapter 5: Creating 3D Maps 105
3D maps 105
Exercise 5A – creating a simple 3D scene 108
Step 1 – creating a project and 3D scene 108
Step 2 – adding a layer 108
Step 3 – making a layer 3D 111
Elevations 112
Ground elevations 113
Digital Elevation Models 113
Triangulated Irregular Networks 114
Extruding features 116
Other methods to display 3D data 118
Exercise 5B – creating a local scene 119
Step 1 – open a project and add a local scene 119
Step 2 – setting the ground surface 119
Step 3 – adding layers and setting symbology 121
Summary 125
Chapter 6: Creating a Layout 127
Things you need to consider when designing a layout 128
Purpose 128
The audience 131
The author's story: A 131
The author's story: B 132
A situation 133
Creating a layout in ArcGIS Pro 134
Exercise 6A – creating a simple layout 135
Step 1 – open ArcGIS Pro and your project 135
Step 2 – adding a new blank layout 135
Step 3 – displaying the desired area 138
Step 4 – adding other elements 139
Challenge 142
Exercise 6B – creating and using a layout template 142
Step 1 – saving a template file 142
Step 2 – creating a new layout using a layout file 142
Step 3 – configuring a new layout 143
The challenge 144
Summary 145
Chapter 7: Editing Spatial and Tabular Data 147
Editable data formats 148
Data formats – editable or not 148
How to know what format data is in 149
How to edit data using ArcGIS Pro 151
How to start editing features and attributes 151
Preparing to edit 151
The EDIT tab 152
Creating new features 156
Feature templates 157
Exercise 7A – creating new features 157
Step 1 – opening your project and preparing to edit 157
Step 2 – adding your source data 162
Step 3 – drawing a new sewer line 163
Step 4 – update attributes 166
Challenge 166
Step 5 – drawing the manholes 166
Step 6 – adding the roads 168
Challenge 176
Editing your schema 176
Adding a field 176
Field name 177
Alias 177
Field data types 177
Exercise 7B – adding a field and populating values 178
Step 1 – adding the field 179
Step 2 – populating the field using the field calculator 181
Importing a new feature class 182
Exercise 7C – importing a Shapefile 182
Step 1 – open the project and add a layer 182
Step 2 – export to geodatabase 183
Summary 184
Chapter 8: Geoprocessing 185
What determines which tools you can use? 186
Licensing levels 186
Extensions for ArcGIS Pro 187
Spatial Analyst 188
3D Analyst 189
Network Analyst 190
Exercise 8A – determining the license level and extension 191
Step 1 – open ArcGIS Pro 191
Step 2 – determining the license level and extension 191
The analysis process 192
Preparing data for analysis 193
The Clip tool 194
The Dissolve tool 194
The Project tool 195
The Merge tool 196
The Append tool 197
Exercise 8B – using the Clip and Dissolve tools 198
Step 1 – evaluate the data 198
Step 2 – clipping the streets 199
Step 3 – simplifying the data and calculating the total length 200
Step 4 – exporting a table to Excel 202
Other commonly used geoprocessing analysis tools 203
Overlay analysis 203
Proximity analysis 206
Exercise 8C – performing analysis 209
Step 1 – locating commercial properties near sewer lines 209
Step 2 – exporting selected parcels 212
Step 3 – determining how much of each commercial property is in the floodplain 213
Step 4 – selecting commercial parcels that are not in the floodplain 217
Summary 219
Chapter 9: Creating and Using Tasks 221
What is a task? 221
Components of a task 222
Running a task 224
Exercise 9A – running a simple task 225
Step 1 – start ArcGIS Pro and open a project 225
Step 2 – opening and running a task 225
Creating tasks 227
Exercise 9B – exploring a task 227
Step 1 – open a project 227
Step 2 – opening a task in the Task Designer 228
Step 3 – Reviewing a task's steps 229
Things to consider 230
What is the purpose or goal of the task? 230
What is the workflow which supports the purpose? 230
How will the task be used? 231
Who is the audience for the task? 232
Creating a task 232
Creating a Task Item 233
Creating a Task Group 234
Creating a task 234
Exercise 9C – creating a task 235
Step 1 – open is project and create a Task Item 235
Step 2 – creating a new task 236
Task steps 237
Components of a step 237
General 238
Actions 240
Views 242
Contents 243
Exercise 9D – adding steps to a task 244
Step 1 – open task in the Task Designer 244
Step 2 – adding a step to zoom 244
Step 3 – selecting the street segment 246
Step 4 – selecting nearby parcels 248
Step 5 – exporting selections to Excel spreadsheet 249
Step 6 – run your task 251
Challenge 251
Summary 251
Chapter 10: Automating Processes with ModelBuilder
and Python 253
Tasks, geoprocessing models, and Python scripts – what is
the difference? 254
Geoprocessing model 254
Python script 255
What is the difference? 256
Creating geoprocessing models 257
Model components and terminology 257
Saving a model 259
Exercise 10A – creating a model 262
Step 1 – open the project and the ModelBuilder window 263
Step 2 – adding model components 264
Step 3 – adding another process 267
Running a model 270
Exercise 10B – running a model 270
Step 1 – running the model from ModelBuilder 270
Step 2 – resetting the run state 272
Step 3 – running the model from a toolbox 273
Making a model interactive 274
Exercise 10C – making a model interactive 276
Step 1 – marking variables as parameters 276
Step 2 – exposing hidden variables 277
Step 3 – running the model 280
Python 280
Some Python basics 281
Commenting and documenting your scripts 281
Variables 283
Data paths 284
The ArcPy module 284
Locating Python syntax for a geoprocessing tool 285
Exercise 10D – creating a Python script 287
Step 1 – open IDLE 288
Step 2 – writing the script 290
Step 3 – adding the script to ArcGIS Pro and running it 293
Summary 295
Chapter 11: Sharing Your Work 297
Sharing content with those on your network 298
If they have ArcGIS Pro 298
A layer file 298
Map files 300
Layout files 301
If they don't have ArcGIS Pro 301
Exporting to other GIS formats 302
Exercise 11B – exporting to KML 303
Exporting to non-GIS formats 308
Sharing content with those not on your network 310
A layer package 311
Exercise 11C – creating a layer package 311
A map package 316
The map package challenge 316
Project packages 317
The project package challenge 317
Summary 318
Appendix A: ArcGIS Pro Glossary 319
Appendix B: Chapter Questions and Answers 327
Index 335
Preface
Preface
Esri's ArcGIS Platform is the premiere GIS solution for those wishing to build a fully
functional and scalable GIS. ArcGIS includes many integrated components, such as
desktop applications, databases, image and web servers, cloud applications, and data
along with mobile and web applications. ArcGIS Pro is Esri's latest addition to this
already amazing GIS platform.
ArcGIS Pro is a 64-bit desktop GIS application that makes use of a modern ribbon
interface. This means that it has the ability to make full use of modern computer
hardware while at the same time presenting users with an easy-to-use and intuitive
interface. It contains powerful tools for visualizing and analyzing 2D and 3D data.
This book will take you from software installation to performing geospatial analysis.
It is packed with how-tos for a host of commonly performed tasks. You start by
learning how to download and install the software, including hardware limitations
and recommendations. Then, you are exposed to the new ribbon interface and how its
smart design can make finding tools easier. After you are exposed to the new interface,
you are taken through the steps of creating a new GIS project to provide quick access
to project resources. With a project created, you learn how to construct 2D and 3D
maps, including how to add layers, adjust symbology, and control labeling. Next, you
learn how to access and use analysis tools to help answer real-world questions. Finally,
you will learn how processes can be automated and standardized in ArcGIS Pro using
tasks, models, and Python scripts.
This book will provide an invaluable resource for all those seeking to use ArcGIS Pro
as their primary GIS application or for those looking to migrate from ArcMap and
ArcCatalog.
