This week’s goal was to obtain experience in editing feature classes and shapefiles, digitizing features and snapping.
PROCESS SUMMARY:
1. Log into e_GIS and create folder for the week – Week 10_Data Editing\Work
2. Copy “Dataediting.zip” on r:\drive to S:\Intro2GIS\Week 10_Data Editing\Work and unzip file.
3. Open up ArcMap and minimize window.
4. With ArcCatalog opened and window minimized, navigate to folder with the shape files, GulfCounty_Roads and GulfCounty_Parcels. Drag both files to ArcMap window to add the two layers.
5. Maximize ArcMap and click on Editing toolbar, Editor and Start Editing.
6. With GulfCounty_Parcels layer highlighted, use the Select by Attributes option to select the two recently purchased parcels. Final “where Clause” should read “PARCELNO”=’03334-000R’Or”PARCELNO”=’03341-000R. Verify the expression then Click Ok to select both parcels.
7. Zoom to the selected parcels, click on Editor, select Merge, then select GulfCounty_Parcels-RISH WILLIAM J and hit Ok to complete.
8. Open the GulfCounty_Parcels attribute table, click on Show Selected Records, and make changes as shown: OWN_NAME = Gulf County, OWN_ADDRESS1 = 1000 5th St., OWN_CITY = Port St. Joe, and OWN_STATE stayed FL.
9. Close attribute table, click on Editor, Save Edits, and Stop Editing. Save work.
10. To find suitable parcels for the extension office site, run new select by attributes query “OWN_NAME”=’GULF COUNTY’. 74 records are selected. Right-click GulfCounty_Parcels, select Data, then Export Data as a new shapefile layer titled, County_Owned.shp
11. Open attribute table for County_Owned, select Add Field, Name it Acres, select the type Double, click Ok, ANOTHER WAY TO DO THIS:
12. Right-click column title of new field and select calculate geometry, Select Units - Acres US and hit Ok. Right-click again and select Field Calculator, and typed in the expression round([Acres],2) to round to two decimal places.
13. Open properties of County_Owned, select the Definition Query tab, type in the expression, Acres >=20 to remove parcels less than 20 acres and click Ok. Only 10 parcels are selected.
14. Click Add Data, and add VICD.dbf. Right-click the County_Owned layer, select Join, then Join Attributes from a Table, with the Parcel_ID.
15. To get the available vacant parcels, Select by Attributes of the County_Owned layer with the expression, “VICD.VI_CD1”=’V’, this gave the available parcels that were vacant. Export the selected parcels as a new layer called SuitableParcels.shp.
16. To adjust the roads, Click on Start Editing, select GulfCounty_Road, and select by attribute, roads FID 4168, with expression “FID”=4168.
17. Double-click on the selected road, turn off vertex and edge snapping and drag the road to the center of it proper location in the middle of the roadway. May take some playing around with using the “snapping option” until you get the road in the center. Save Edits.
18. Click the create Features Button in the Edit toolbar, double-click on GulfCounty_Roads, click Ok, then click on the new road to draw the new street with vertices.
19. Click on the attributes for this new road and fill in the new attributes as shown on point #7 of pg. 9 of the lab summary. Click Save Edits and stopping editing.
20. Add all essential Map elements; Change to layout view, landscape, insert neatline, author/date and source, scale bar(be sure to adjust units to feet to match shapefiles), legend.
21. Click to Add a Basemap, Bing Maps Aerial.
22. Adjust the suitable parcels layer to have no fill color and red outline with a width of 2.
23. Adjust the Gulf County Parcels layer also with no fill color and a black outline with a 1.5 outline. Make the roads green in color with a width size of 2.
24. Insert label in the suitable Parcels layer by clicking on the open attribute table and under, “OWN_NAME” type in “03334_000R”.
25. Save map and export as SuitableParcels_Gulf CountyBOCC_Ext.jpg
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