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Lab Manual/Exercise WorksheetsLab Manual/Exercise Worksheets prepared by Christopher J. Sutton, Western Illinois University
Creating a Base Map. In this exercise, students do "heads up" digitizing to create map layers using an aerial photograph. Skills covered in the exercise include: using ArcCatalog to create map layers, creating a spatial bookmark, drawing map features, and modifying symbol properties.Acknowledgments
The author wishes to thank ESRI, Inc. for their prompt and generous permission to use screenshots of the GUI and data used in these exercises. ArcMap is the intellectual property of ESRI and is used herein by permission. Copyright © 2008 ESRI. All rights reserved. http://www.esri.com
I thank the Western Illinois University GIS Center for use of the aerial photograph included in the Creating a Base Map exercise.
In addition to the data provided by ESRI, data used in the exercises are from the following sources: The National Atlas
2002 Agricultural Census
CIA World Factbook
U.S. Bureau of the Census
Federal Aviation Administration
NOAA Coastal Services Center
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Creating a Base Map is a PDF (Portable Document Format) document that must be downloaded to your hard drive. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it. If you do not have the Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can download it from the Adobe web site for free.  <![CDATA[<a onClick="window.open('/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=gif::::/sites/dl/free/0072943823/41597/getacro.gif','popWin', 'width=138,height=101,resizable,scrollbars');" href="#"><img valign="absmiddle" height="16" width="16" border="0" src="/olcweb/styles/shared/linkicons/image.gif"> (1.0K)</a>]]> Creating a Base Map PDF
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The mapping project file ([exercise name].mxd) and data files (contained in a separate folder) are compressed as a ZIP file and must be unzipped in order to work. Save the file to a location on your computer or external drive and unzip it.
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