GIS Skills for Engineers
Table of contents
- What are GIS Skills?
- How to use this book
- Understanding DWG objects and GIS features
- Other learning resources
- Complete list of animations
- Data Preparation
- View and interpret metadata
- Create metadata for your map
- Reproject incoming data to a new coordinate system
- Georeference parcels by rubbersheeting
- Clean up duplicates, gaps, and other accuracy problems in DWG files
- Data Conversion
- Export DWG objects to a GIS data store (SDF)
- Convert styled DWG objects to features
- Save the current map in DWG format with visual fidelity
- Data Access
- Bring in data from multiple image files to a single layer
- Transform an image so that it is correctly aligned
- Access data published on a public web server
- Bring in parcel data from AutoCAD Civil 3D
- Bring in point data from a Microsoft Access database
- Bring in a subset of features using a query
- Data Editing
- Edit DWG files in a multi-user environment
- Draft new features for an existing feature class
- Edit feature geometry directly in a SHP file using CAD tools
- Edit features as polylines using PEDIT
- Split a parcel in two and divide attributes
- Create new features from existing AutoCAD objects
- Check out features to edit in the field and update the database later
- Zoom to features by selecting rows in the Data Table (and vice-versa)
- Generate a report by exporting records to a spreadsheet
- Data Management
- Create a GIS data store (SDF) to be populated from various sources
- Bulk copy data from a SHP file to an SDF file
- Edit an existing schema (SDF)
- Limit what can be entered in a field
- Join attribute data to features
- Calculate fields in the Data Table
- Styling and Theming Features
- Hide and show features as you zoom in and out
- Replace points in the map with symbols
- Label features and optimize placement
- Set the number of decimal places for labels
- Add a text layer and edit text
- Set transparency for parcels or other features
- Choose the right type of theme to suit your data
- Manually adjust the ranges of a theme
- Theme based on individual values
- Analysis
- Color a surface by elevation and adjust hillshading
- Change the elevation ranges for a surface
- View a site in 3D
- Drape vector and raster layers over a surface
- Analyze the slope and aspect of a site
- Create a contour layer from a surface
- Create a network topology to show how lines are connected
- Find the shortest path through a network
- Find which lines are within a particular polygon (overlay analysis)
- Select features by location using a buffer
- Create overlapping buffer zones around points
- Sharing Data with Others
- Exchange data with other users by exporting to SDF format
- Share styles with other users of AutoCAD Map 3D using .layer files
- Map Layout and Cartography
- Manage layers with draw order and folders
- Include AutoCAD layers in the Display Manager
- Create and edit a legend
- Printing, Plotting, and Publishing
- Publish a completed map to a MapGuide server
- Create a map book with appropriate-scale tiling for a city
- Produce a multi-sheet DWF file for a map book