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When local governments
decide to go digital and use a geographic information system (GIS)
to store and access information, many tasks need to be done.
ArcGIS and the Digital City: A Hands-on Approach for Local
Government provides step-by-step exercises using real data with
ArcGIS that take you through the process of building and using GIS
data in a local government.
Containing the authentic
nuts and bolts of daily GIS activities, this is a textbook for GIS
classes in urban planning plus a workbook for local governments.
Planners, analysts, and other local government staff can get
hands-on experience using data sources from a real city
to:
- build a
geodatabase from CAD files and tabular data
- define
coordinate systems
- construct table
joins
- create
and work with topologies
- fix,
update, and edit spatial data
- perform
attribute queries, field calculations, and much more.
Working with ArcGIS 9
geoprocessing tools, you will perform spatial analysis to produce
land-use reports, analyze residential density, and find possible
drug houses near playgrounds.
After doing the
exercises in ArcGIS and the Digital City: A Hands-on Approach
for Local Government, you will understand the power and the
problems associated with working with real data in a GIS, and you
will be able to use ArcGIS Desktop to address issues crucial to
cities and counties.
Please
Note:
The exercises in this book require that you have a licensed copy of
ArcInfo 9.
About the
authors:
William E.
Huxhold, GISP, is a
well-respected GIS theorist and professor in the University of
Wisconsin–Milwaukee Department of Urban Planning. He is the author
of An Introduction to Urban Geographic Information
Systems.
Eric M.
Fowler, GISP, teaches GIS at
the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and develops GIS applications
for governments and private companies at R. A. Smith &
Associates, Inc.
Brian
Parr manages workbooks for
Educational Products at ESRI and is an ArcGIS instructor and
technical writer.
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