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  1. HGAC_Major_Roads, HGAC_tracts, METRO_BusRoutes, and METRO_BusStops are Shapefile feature classes, so these Shapefiles require a specific method to be imported into the Project Geodatabase. In the Catalog pane, right-click on HGAC_tracts.shp and select Export > Feature class(es) to geodatabase.



  2. In the Geoprocessing pane, click the Folder button to the right of the blank input features drop-down.
  3. In the 'Input Features' window, click Project > Folders > Downloads in the right column and click Open.
  4. Find and select HGAC_Major_Roads.shp and click OK. 
  5. Repeat steps 2-4 for METRO_BusRoutes.shp and METRO_BusStops.shp.
  6. In the Geoprocessing pane, accept default settings as shown below and click Run. 



  7. Navigate back to the Catalog pane by selecting the Catalog tab at the bottom of the Geoprocessing pane.
  8. In the Catalog pane, right-click on Intro.gdb and select Refresh. 
  9. Expand Intro.gdb. Your Project Geodatabase should now contain four Geodatabase feature classes: HGAC_Major_Roads, HGAC_tracts, METRO_BusRoutes, and METRO_BusStops.



  10. In the Catalog pane, in the Folders section, right-click on Downloads and select Remove.

The Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) is the 13-county Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Houston region. Federal legislation requires that an MPO be designated for each urbanized area with a population greater than 50,000 people (as established by the U.S. Census Bureau) in order to conduct long-range metropolitan transportation planning and be eligible for Federal funding for transportation projects. Their mission to carry out metropolitan transportation planning means that MPOs are a great source of data on topics such as demographics, employment, land use, transportation, and environmental conditions and most of these topics are well-suited towards GIS analysis.

Most of the data provided on the H-GAC portal is not originally created by the H-GAC, but rather is either aggregated from multiple municipalities up to the 13-country region, or clipped from the country or state down to the 13-county region.