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Obtaining the Tutorial Data

Before beginning the tutorial, you will copy all of the required tutorial data onto your Desktop. Option 1 is best if you are completing this tutorial in one of our short courses or from the GIS/Data Center and Option 2 is best if you are completing the tutorial from your own computer.

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1. On the Desktop, double-click the Projections folder and .
2. Doubledouble-click the Projections.aprx project file to open the project in ArcGIS Pro.

Previewing GIS Data

1. In the Catalog pane, in the Databases folder, double-click to expand the ProjectionsData geodatabase.

Inside the ProjectionsData geodatabase, you will notice three feature classes.

As a reminder, by default, the Contents pane is the far left sidebar, the Catalog view is in the central portion of the application window, and the Catalog pane is the far right sidebar, but all three show the same list of project items upon first opening a new project.

1. In the Catalog view in the center of the application, double-click the Databases folder.
2. Double-click the Projections.gdb geodatabase.

Inside the Projections geodatabase, you will notice three feature classes.

1. Click to select the County feature class.

After selecting a feature class, the right side of the Catalog view now shows the metadata provided for this feature class, which, in this case has not been filled out by the data provide.

1. At the bottom of Metadata panel, click the Preview tabIn the Catalog pane, select and hover over the County feature class.

This feature class contains a polygon delineating the boundaries of Harris County. It was obtained from Esri’s now outdated Census 2000 TIGER/Line Data website at httpCensus 2000 TIGER/Line Data website at http://www.esri.com/data/download/census2000-tigerline, which is no longer online, but the same data can be obtained from the United States Census Bureau's TIGER/Line webpage at https://www.esricensus.comgov/geo/maps-data/downloaddata/census2000tiger-tigerlineline.html.

1. In the Catalog paneview, click to select and hover over the MajorRoads feature class.

This feature class contains centerlines of all of the major roads within the greater Houston and Harris County region. It was obtained from the COHGIS 2011 route datasets link on the City of Houston GIS (COHGIS) 2011 Datasets website at http://mycity.houstontx.gov/home/cohgis.html.houstontx.gov/home/cohgis.html, which is no longer online, but the same data can be obtained from the digital collection in the GIS/Data Center.

1. In the Catalog paneview, click to select and hover over the Schools feature class.

This feature class contains the point locations of all schools in Texas. It was obtained from the Download Schools link on the Texas Education Agency (TEA) Texas School District Locator – Data Download website at http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/SDL/sdldownload.html, which is no longer online, but the same content can be downloaded at the new Texas Education Agency Public Open Data Site at http://schoolsdata2-tea-texas.opendata.arcgis.com/.

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