Structures for Storing Geographic Data - Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS - page 271

Exercise 4-6 (Project)
Making a File Geodatabase Feature Class for Foozit_Court
Now you know how to make a line feature class with ArcToolbox's Create Features from Text File tool and
how to create polygons from the lines. In what follows you will make a more complex feature class and
examine it.
A Foozit court is a (hypothetical) game surface, somewhat like a tennis court in that it has painted lines.
The diagram in Figure 4-21 shows where the lines are. The units are in feet. The lower-left corner and
upper-right corner coordinates are shown in the diagram. Almost all nodes and vertices fall on Cartesian
points with integer coordinates. If you are familiar with the Cartesian coordinate system, this exercise
may seem like so much busy work—but it will go quickly. If you aren't familiar, you will learn a lot from this
exercise.
FIGURE 4-21 Foozit court coordinates
1. In ArcCatalog make a file geodatabase named Athletics.gdb in
___IGIS-Arc_ YourInitials \TextToFeature.
2. Make a feature dataset named State_Athletics within Athletics.gdb. Make its projected
coordinate system State Plane, NAD83 U.S. feet, Idaho Central FIPS 1102. It doesn't need a
vertical coordinate system.