Some Concepts That Underpin GIS - Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS - page 51

River _________________________________________

Boat_SP83.shp _________________________________

COLE_DRG.tif ____________________________________

COLE_DOQ64.jpg _________________________________

COLE_TIN ______________________________________

Terrain_from_LiDAR.gdb _____________________________

KY_SP_North_NAD83 ____________________________

LIDAR Points ___________________________________

River_Bend_and_Water_Plant_Terrain ________________

Dismiss ArcCatalog.

Exercise 1-5 (Major Project)

Exploring Data with ArcCatalog—Fire Hydrants in a Village
Copying Data over to Your Personal Folder
As mentioned earlier, ArcCatalog serves as a sort of operating system for GIS data. One function of
an operating system is to make copies of folders and files. Important for avoiding catastrophes: When
working with GIS data in Esri formats you should

copy data sets using ArcCatalog— never use
Windows, UNIX, Linux, or any other primary operating system to copy data sets. You can, however, use the
computer's operating system to copy entire folders, provided that they encompass all related spatial data.

always

In using this text, you will use your working folder

___IGIS-Arc_ YourInitials

to do most of the exercises. The idea is to leave the [___]IGIS-Arc folder contents in pristine condition. So,
when you are going to work with the sample data from this textbook, you will usually copy over the data
sets to your personal folder: ___IGIS-Arc_ YourInitials . We'll start with the Village Data.

1. Start ArcCatalog. Expand [___]. Expand IGIS-Arc. Select Village_Data. Right-click on the
selection and pick Copy. Select

___IGIS-Arc_ YourInitials

Right-click on the selection and pick Paste.

2. Make a folder connection with

___IGIS-Arc_ YourInitials\Village_Data