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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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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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