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- On the Desktop, double-click the Computer icon > gisdata > GISData (\\file-rnassmb.rdf.rice.edu\research\FondrenGDC) (RO:) > > GDCTraining > 1_Short_Courses > > Introduction_to_Geoprocessing.
- To create a personal copy of the tutorial data, drag the Geoprocessing folder onto the Desktop.
- Close all windows.
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- On the ribbon, click the Analysis tab.
- On the Analysis tab, within the first Geoprocessing group, click the Tools button.
Notice that the Geoprocessing pane has opened on the right as a new tab on top of the Contents Catalog pane. Typically, you would use the 'Find Tools' search box at the top of the Geoprocessing pane to search for the name of the tool you'd like to use, but, at times, especially when learning the software, it can be helpful to view the full hierarchy of all the tools available, because you will often discover related and helpful tools that you didn't know existed and wouldn't know to search for. You might also completely forget the name of a tool, but be able to locate it based on the hierarchy. For these reasons, we will be manually navigating the toolboxes throughout this tutorial. The more typical workflow of searching directly for a specific tool will be covered briefly at the end of the tutorial.
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- For ‘Join Features’, use the drop-down box to menu to select the HPDCrime2010_HISD layer.
- For ‘Output Feature Class,’ rename the feature class from HISDElemSchools_HalfMileBuff to “HISDElemSchools_HalfMileBuffer_WithCrimeStats".
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- Right-click the new HISDElemSchools_WithHPDDistricts layer name and select Attribute Table.
Notice the newly added District field that tells you which police district each school falls within. Scroll down the table view and notice that five schools do not have a district assigned to them. That is because those schools fall within HISD, but do not fall within the City of Houston police jurisdiction.
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