Authoring Geodatabases - Learning ArcGIS Geodatabases - page 5

Feature class Field Field type

NAME Text

WEBSITE Text

Cafes

RATING Short Integer

SHAPE Geometry

NAME Text

WEBSITE Text

CUISINE Text

Restaurants

RATING Short Integer

SHAPE Geometry

NAME Text

WEBSITE Text

Bars_and_Lounges

RATING Short Integer

SHAPE Geometry

There are a lot of ways to design the schema for a geodatabase. There are really good
ways that keep your geodatabase healthy in the long run, and there are bad ways that are
inefficient. This design is a simple one; it is not the ultimate, and you might come up with
a better design. The only reason I selected this is for its simplicity, and there is definitely
plenty of room for improvement. You will learn how to create an efficient schema design
in Chapter 3 , Modeling Geodatabases , as you are introduced to more geodatabase data-
sets.

As you can see, we have merged the bars and lounges into one single feature class. We
have used point geometry to represent these feature classes since it is easier to sketch,