Lab #2: Managing Data

Complete the chapter 2 tutorial (pg 59-71). Then follow these steps to create your own geodatabase:

1. Create a new project folder in your gisclass folder (or whatever your class folder is named in your USB). Within it, create a new, empty file geodatabase for data relevant to New York state.

2. Examine each of the feature classes in the usdata geodatabase and decide which ones can be exported to your geodatabase using the table query or clipping. You should extract data from:

– states

– counties

– cities

– rivers

– interstates

3. Export each of the datasets to your newly-created state geodatabase. Be careful to export only the features in New York state

4. Add all of your newly created data to ArcMap. Customize the colors and styles of each layer to create a map.

Turn in a report with the following information:

1. For each feature class you extracted, indicate whether you used a clip or an extraction query. If clip, indicate what clip boundary file was used. If query, include the query expression you used

2. Graphics

a) Screenshots of your geodatabase—with all of its contents—from ArcCatalog

b) Map of your data from ArcMap