Page History

...

This course will teach you how to download, evaluate, and prepare GIS data from public online sources and set up a project in ArcGIS Pro.

Obtaining the Tutorial Data

...

1. On the Desktop, double-click the Computer icon  > gisdata (\\fon-gis04) (O:)  > Short_Courses  > Getting_Started_with_ArcGIS_Series > Introduction_to_GIS.
2. To create a personal copy of the tutorial data, drag the IntroTutorialData folder onto the Desktop.
3. Close all windows.

...

When this button is selected, the order in which the layers are listed corresponds to the order in which the layers are visually ordered stacked in the Map view. This order is similar to how the Bring Forward and Send Backward buttons work in PowerPoint. To test how the drawing order works, let's reorder the layers.

1. Click In the Contents pane, click and hold on the Census_2010_By_SuperNeighborhood layer name and drag and drop it above the BusStops layer.

You will notice that the Census_2010_By_SuperNeighborhood layer is now drawn in front of the BusStops layer, meaning that bus stops are only visible in areas not covered by a super neighborhood. Since this visualization is not desireable, we will return the layers to their previous order.

1. Click In the Contents pane, click and hold on the Census_2010_By_SuperNeighborhood layer name and drag and drop it beneath the BusRoutesNBN layer, but above the Topographic basemap.

The check boxes to the left of each layer name toggle the visibility of each layer.

...