Lab 3: Labeling Features and Querying Data

Introduction

This lab introduces labeling and querying in ArcGIS.  You will learn the following skills in ArcView:

• Using dynamic labels
• Setting rules for placing labels
• Using interactive labels and creating annotation
• Identifying, selecting, finding, and hyperlinking features
• Selecting features by attribute
• Creating reports

Instructions

Do the tutorial exercises in Chapters 7 and 8 of Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop.

Deliverables

Answer the following questions and produce the following outputs.  Hand them in to the instructor at the beginning of the next lab section.  Labs should be typed, include your name and lab number, be well organized, and stapled together.

Chapter 7

1. At the end of section 7a put your name above Gulf of Mexico and print the map.
2. At the end of exercise 7b switch to the layout view, and print the map.
3. At the end of exercise 7c put your name above the Gulf of Mexico and print the map.

Chapter 8

1. After you finish exercise 8a answer the following questions by using the find and hypertext tools.  Who owns the house at 822 Columbia? What color is the house?  How many stories is the house?
2. What is SQL and what can it do?
3. At the end of exercise 8b do another query to answer the following questions.  How many houses 3 or more bedrooms and a sale price less than $120,000? What are their addresses?
4. Print the report at the end of exercise 8c.  However, rather than making the title "Available Three Bedroom Houses" as specified in the exercise, make the title "Potential Homes For Your Name."