Lab 7: Creating Features and Editing Features and Attributes

Introduction

This lab introduces spatial feature creation and entity and attribute editing in ArcGIS.  You will learn the following skills in ArcView:

• Drawing features
• Using features construction tools
• Deleting and modifying features
• Splitting and merging features
• Editing feature attribute values

Instructions

Do the tutorial exercises in Chapters 15 and 16 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 be stapled together.

Chapter 15

1. What is digitizing?
2. What is heads-up digitizing?
3. What are end points, vertices, and edges?
4. What is an edit sketch?
5. At the end of exercise 15a put your name on the map using a text box, switch to a layout view, and print the map.
6. At the end of exercise 15b, zoom to the Full View bookmark,  put your name on the map using a text box, turn the subdivision image on, switch to a layout view, and print the map.

Chapter 16

1. At the end of exercise 16a, zoom to the Full View bookmark, put your name on the map using a text box, and print the layout view map.
2. At the end of exercise 16b, zoom to the Full View bookmark, put your name on the map using a text box, and print the layout view map.
3. How do you create a new field in an attribute database and calculate values for that field that are a function of another field?