Creating and Editing Data Using ArcGIS Pro (3.4) Class Resources

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This 2-day course teaches best practices to create accurate geographic data and maintain it over time. You will get ample hands-on practice with a variety of ArcGIS Pro tools that streamline the editing process and decrease the potential for errors when updating your GIS database.  These resources are dynamic and will be updated as needed.

• Resources
• Lesson 1 - Editing in ArcGIS Pro
• Lesson 2 - Preparing to edit GIS data
• Lesson 3 - Creating 2D features
• Lesson 4 - Maintaining spatial integrity
• Lesson 5 - Modifying 2D features
• Lesson 6 - Editing attributes
• Lesson 7 - Using topology
• Lesson 8 - Editing annotation
• Lesson 9 - Creating and modifying 3D features
• Lesson 10 - Implementing the editing workflow
• Additional Web Based and Instructor-Led Training
• Technology Resources
• Webinars and Books

Resources

Lesson 1 - Editing in ArcGIS Pro

• Editing basics in ArcGIS Pro (Web Course)
• ArcGIS Pro Editing Essentials (Training Seminar)
• Editing in ArcGIS Pro
• A quick tour of editing
• Get started editing
• Optional settings for editing
• Map units, display units, and location units

Lesson 2 - Preparing to edit GIS data

• What is a geodatabase?
• Types of geodatabases
• Shapefiles in ArcGIS Pro
• Edit web feature layers
• Configure feature layers and fields for editing in ArcGIS Pro (ArcGIS Blog)
• Feature classes
• Coordinate systems, projections, and transformations
• Specify a coordinate system
• Geographic datum transformations
• About geographic transformations and how to choose the right one (ArcGIS Blog)
• Transformation warning: What does it mean and what should I do? (ArcGIS Blog)
• Project (Data Management)
• Introduction to editor tracking
• Enable or disable editor tracking

• Maintain data accountability with editor tracking - Part 1 (ArcGIS Blog)

Lesson 3 - Creating 2D features

• ArcGIS Pro Tips: Group templates, galleries, and grids make editing a snap
• Introduction to 2D and 3D features
• Introduction to feature templates
• Create a feature template
• Delete a feature template
• Configure a feature template
• Create a group template
• Create a preset template
• Filter and find feature templates
• Create point and multipoint features
• Polyline and polygon construction tools
• Edit features to create enumeration areas (Tutorial)
• Editing tools to create multipart polygons, specifically donut polygons
• Collect data in the field from your GNSS device with ArcGIS Pro
• Copy features between layers
• Add Google Maps to ArcMap and Pro
• Getting started with configuring GNSS devices in ArcGIS Pro

• Data management and editing in ArcGIS Pro 

Lesson 4 - Maintaining spatial integrity

• Turn snapping on and enable snap agents
• Toggle snapping on or off by layer
• Change snapping settings
• Turn the reference grid on
• Use the reference grid
• Customize the reference grid
• Introducing editing with Inference in ArcGIS Pro (ArcGIS Blog)
• Use on-screen constraints
• Filter undo and redo for editing

Lesson 5 - Modifying 2D features

• Modify features
• Modify Features tool reference
• Select features for editing
• Create polygon features

• How the Editing tools’ Selection Filtering experience streamlines user workflows

Lesson 6 - Editing attributes

• Edit feature attributes
• Use the fields view
• Create and manage fields
• Introduction to attribute domains
• Introduction to subtypes
• Apply Subtypes and Domains to Vienna Hiking Trails (Web Course)

Lesson 7 - Using topology

• Getting Started with Geodatabase Topology (ArcMap 10.7) 
• Map topology
• Topology basics
• Topology in ArcGIS
• Align a topology edge
• Move a topological edge or feature
• Edit a topology edge
• Edit a topological vertex
• Reshape a topology edge
• Work with topology properties
• Validate and fix geodatabase topology
• Topology rules poster

• Use geodatabase topology for ecomobility (Tutorial)

Lesson 8 - Editing annotation

• Map text in ArcGIS Pro
• Labeling basics
• Annotation
• Manage annotation feature class properties
• Manage annotation feature class editing properties
• Create annotation feature classes
• Convert labels to annotation
• Edit annotation text
• Move, rotate, or scale annotation
• Stack or unstack annotation
• Upgrade annotation feature classes

• Pro Map Text II: Annotation (ArcGIS Blog)

Lesson 9 - Creating and modifying 3D features

• Create Multipatch Features and Texture Editing (Learn ArcGIS)
• Navigation in 3D
• Use the on-screen navigator
• Introduction to 2D and 3D features
• Extrude features to 3D symbology
• Marker symbol layers
• Create multipatch or 3D Object features
• Modify a multipatch or 3D object
• Move, rotate, or scale a feature
• Create realistic 3D urban scenes (Tutorial)
• Use 2D data in a 3D scene (Tutorial)

Lesson 10 - Implementing the editing workflow

The ArcGIS Pro editing workflow has been used throughout the course to guide how edits are made to spatial data.  In Lesson 10, you will review the steps of the workflow and consider how to apply them in your daily work.  A final class project with limited exercise steps has been designed to mimic editing in real world environments.

Additional Web Based and Instructor-Led Training

 

• Migrating from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro:  This instructor led course prepares experienced ArcMap users to be productive in ArcGIS Pro right away.
  
  
• Mapping and Visualizing Data in ArcGIS:  This instructor led course teaches ArcGIS Pro techniques to create and share a variety of professional quality information products including print maps, web maps, 3D scenes, animations, and charts.
  
  
• Spatial Analysis with ArcGIS Pro:  This instructor led course assists you in learning essential concepts and a standard workflow you can apply to any spatial analysis project.
  
  
• Explore our Courses:  Search for and enroll in a variety of Esri Training learning formats such as Instructor Led, Web Learning, Seminars, MOOC's and more.
  
  
• Learn ArcGIS:  Guided lessons based on real-world problems.
  
  

  Technology Resources

• ArcGIS Pro 3.4 System Requirements:  Before installing or upgrading ArcGIS Pro on a virtual or physical machine, make sure your system meets the minimum requirements to run it. Also, learn what resources are recommended to get the best performance.
  
  
• Can your computer run ArcGIS Pro 3.4?:  Check your computer's ability to run ArcGIS Pro 3.4.
  
  
• ArcGIS Pro Free 21-Day Trial:  Don't have ArcGIS Pro yet?  Not ready to purchase a license?  Try ArcGIS Pro for a 21-day free trial.
  
  
• ArcGIS Pro Resources:  visit this website to learn of Discovery Paths, read the ArcGIS Blog for updates and articles, learn of new ArcGIS Pro news and the ArcGIS Pro Roadmap.

 

Webinars and Books

• What's new in ArcGIS Pro 3.4
• Ideas in ArcGIS Pro 3.4
• Switching to ArcGIS Pro from ArcMap, second edition: 

  With the retirement of ArcMap coming soon, users need a tool to learn ArcGIS Pro quickly and efficiently—one that explains the new approach and improved functionality without bogging it down. Experienced users don’t need an in-depth introduction; they need one that gets them up and running using ArcGIS Pro in their daily workflows.