Lab 4: Joins, Relates, and Selecting Features by Location

Introduction

This lab introduces linking attribute data and spatial selection in ArcGIS.  You will learn the following skills in ArcView:

• Joining tables
• Relating tables
• Using location queries
• Combining attribute and location queries

Instructions

Do the tutorial exercises in Chapters 9 and 10 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 9

1. What is a one-to-one relationship?
2. At the end of exercise 9b put your name on the map using a text box and print it.
3. What is a one-to-many relationship?
4. What is the difference between a join and a relate?
5. How do you select attributes that have a one-to-many relationship with spatial objects and then find the locations of the spatial objects?

Chapter 10

1. At the end of exercise 10a put your name on the map using a text box, switch to a layout view, and print the map.
2. What is a definition query?
3. At the end of exercise 10b put your name on the map using a text box, switch to a layout view, and print the map.
4. What is a spatial join?