Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
Converting the Shapefile to a Geodatabase
Feature Class
21.
Open ArcToolbox. Expand Conversion Tools
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> To Geodatabase > Feature Class To Feature
Class. Pounce. Read the Help in the right pane (Use Show Help if necessary). Click the Input
Features text box and read the right pane, then browse with the Input Features open folder
icon. You want to navigate to the shapefile you created earlier: Dig_Lines_Shape.shp. Add the
shapefile.
22.
Click the Output Location text box. Browse to the North_Zone data set (make sure the name
appears in the Name box of the Output Location window), and click Add. You can use the arrow
keys, and Home and End keys to see any hidden contents of the Output Location box in the
Feature Class To Feature Class window.
23.
For the Output Feature Class name, type School_Court_A. Expand the window vertically or
use the slider bar to see the rest of the window. Under Field Map do away with the unneeded
shapefile identifier ID by clicking it, then clicking the Delete button (an X) in the window. Click
OK. Once processing completes, close the ArcToolbox window. Preview the Geography and the
Table of School_Court_A.
Moving the Foozit Court Feature Class
into the Real World
24.
Start ArcMap with a new, blank map. Add School_Court_A. Change the lines in School_Court_A
to Mars Red, with a width of 2.
25.
Right-click the Data Frame. In the Data Frame Properties window note that the map units are
Feet, as you defined them to be. Make sure the Display units are set to Feet as well. You will
notice, as you slide the cursor around the Foozit court, that the coordinates on the screen show
in feet. These will be similar to the coordinates you wrote down previously. If you measure the
width of the court, you get something on the order of 5 feet—clearly not correct. It's nothing
to worry about. When you transform the court into real-world coordinates, the feature class
dimensions will change and it will be rotated to fit the spot. All that is important here is that the
right lines are connected and that the image is not distorted.
26.
Add the image file six.tif from [___]IGIS-Arc\Image_Data. (Do not build pyramids if asked. Ignore
the warning about the unknown spatial reference.) Zoom to the layer. In the southwest corner of
the image is a school with a running track. Zoom to the school, including the track. Bookmark
this image, calling it School. In the south-central part of this image, you should be able to
discern most of a large parking lot.
It has been decided to make a full-size Foozit Court in the parking lot of the school. A surveyor was hired
to specify the corners of the court in the Kentucky state plane coordinate system you have been working
with. So, you will place the Foozit court in the parking lot of the school, at the coordinates shown in
Table 5-1, which have been provided to you by a surveyor.
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You may need to add Conversion Tools. If so, refer to Exercise 4-3. The toolbox is located in Toolboxes > System
Toolboxes.
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