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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. The following text styles are used throughout the guide: Explanatory text appears in a regular font.
Folder and file names are in italics. Names of Programs, Windows, Panes, Views, or Buttons are Capitalized. 'Names of windows or entry fields are in single quotation marks.' "Text to be typed appears in double quotation marks."
The following step-by-step instructions and screenshots are based on the Windows 10 operating system with the Windows Classic desktop theme and ArcGIS Pro 2.1.3 software. If your personal system configuration varies, you may experience minor differences from the instructions and screenshots. |
Obtaining the Tutorial Data
Before beginning the tutorial, you will copy all of the required tutorial data onto your Desktop. There are two ways of obtaining the tutorial data. Option 1 is best if you are completing this tutorial in one of our short courses or from Fondren Library and Option 2 is best if you are completing the tutorial from your own computer.
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- Click Geoprocessing.zip above to download the tutorial data.
- Open the Downloads folder.
- Right-click Geoprocessing.zip and select Extract All....
- In the 'Extract Compressed (Zipped) Folders' window, accept the default location into the Downloads folder and click Extract.
- Drag the unzipped Geoprocessing folder onto your Desktop.
- Close all windows.
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- On the Desktop, double-click the Geoprocessing folder.
- Double-click the Geoprocessing.aprx ArcGIS Project File (blue icon) to open the project in ArcGIS Pro.
- Maximize the ArcGIS Pro application window.
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Geoprocessing tools are used to update and analyze data based on particular criteria. The majority of geoprocessing tools generate a new feature class that differs from the input feature class(ses) either in feature geometry or tabular attributes or both. In this tutorial you will use geoprocessing tools to generate information that could be used for a collaboration between the Houston Police Department (HPD) and the Houston Independent School District (HISD).
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The first set of data you will be working with contains the HPD beat boundaries. A beat is the territory and time that a police officer patrols. Though it has been modified for the purposes of this tutorial, the original data was obtained from the City of Houston GIS Database webpage, which is no longer available, but the original data can still be obtained from the GIS/Data Center data collection.
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Notice that the when you hover over the 'Output Dataset' field, the file path location defaults to your project geodatabase (C:\Users\gistrain\Desktop\Geoprocessing\Geoprocessing.gdb\HPDBeats_South_Merge).
- For ‘Output Dataset’, rename the feature class from HPDBeats_South_Merge or HPDBeats_North_Merge to “HPDBeats".
- Ensure that your Merge tool Parameters tab appears as shown below and click Run.
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