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This guide was created by the staff of the GIS/Data Center at Rice University and is to be used for individual educational purposes only. The steps outlined in this guide require access to ArcGIS Pro software and data that is available both online and at Fondren Library. |
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- In the table, click the Commercial value to select it.
- Hold down Ctrl and click the Office value to select it too.
- Right-click the Commercial value and select Group values to combine the two categories into one.
- In the Contents pane, right-click each symbol patch individually and select from the row indicated below.
- Select the colors commonly used by planners to indicate the various represent each land usesuse, as displayed below.
- Above the ribbon, on the Quick Access toolbar, click the Save button.
- Minimize ArcGIS Pro.
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In this exercise, you will be mapping land cover by state. The original data table was obtained from The the 2011 Statistical Abstract published by the U.S. Census Bureau at http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/. The particular table was accessed from the “Geography & Environment” section under the “Land, Land Use, and Earthquakes” category and was called table “265, Land Cover/Use by State: 2003”. You will now format this table for import into ArcGIS.
- Double-click the Tabular folder on the desktop Desktop.
- Double-click LandCoverByState to open the file with Excel.
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- Click and hold row 3 and drag the mouse up past the top of the spreadsheet to select rows 1 through 3.
- Right-click row 3 and select Delete.
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Ensure that you are left with the five necessary columns previously mentioned unselected.
- Right-click column P and select Delete.
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