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GIS Schultz

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the basic color   hue  
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bright colors, most important graphic elements   figure  
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drab colors, graphic elements that provide orientation or context   ground  
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1.simple 2.compound attribute queries   query types  
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1.Design maps for appropriate medium-Print vs. electronic 2.Plan a layout 3.Link layouts to map purpose 4.Choose appropriate export options   purpose of output  
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1.Main map size and location 2.Map title and subtitle 3.Legend 4.Data sources 5.Graphic scale 6.North arrow 7.Neatline 8.Inset maps   map layout elements  
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map unit for many local government GIS applications   feet or meter  
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map unit for CAD applications   inch  
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1. .BMP, .TIF, .JPG 2.Size/Resolution 3.Color options   Raster  
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1. Enhanced Metafile (.emf)Encapsulated 2.PostScript (.eps), Adobe Illustrator (.ai)   Vector  
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.JPG, .PDF   Web  
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1.ArcGIS Server 2.ARCIMS 3.ArcExplorer 4.ArcReader 5.KML   other outputs  
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1.dBase(.dbf) 2.Text with comma or tab-separatedvalues(.csv) 3.Microsoft Access(.mdb) 4.Excel(.xls)   directly loadable data types  
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1.Manage coverages, shapefiles, tablesinside a DBMS 2.Enterprise geodatabase 3.Personal geodatabase 4.Appears as an .mdb file   Geodatabases  
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1.More accurately represents shape of features 2.Many users can edit geophic data 3.Modern orgs prefer a database approach to working with map layers 4.Provides a uniform and IT compliantrepository for geophic data 5.Geodatabase is ESRI preferred format   Geodatabases Advantages  
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1.Putting two tables together to makeone table 2.Join two tables one-to-one by row 3.Join on primary key attributes 4.Primary key attributes do not need to have the same names 5.Must have the same values and datatypes   data table joins  
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1.Data in fields not exactly the same 2.Different data field types 3.Saving.CSV files in Excel is difficult and time consuming 4.Using Micro. Access as middle man is time consuming   problems with joins  
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1.Spatially counts points(historic places) within polygons(neighborhoods)2.Joins using shape(not attribute field) 3.Join points to polygons or polygons to points   spatial joins  
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1.Copy,paste,re-name files 2.Edit projections, fields 3.View Metadata 4.Edit metadata(Arc Info)   Arc Catalog Functions  
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1.Calculations 2.Populates fields 3.Concatenates fields   Field Calculator Functions  
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1.Federal Information Processing Standards2.Developed by the National Insitute of Standadrds and Technology (NIST)3.Codes for place names throughout the world   Geocodes and FIPS codes  
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1.ArcInfo Coverages2.ArcView Shapefiles3.CAD Files4.Aerial Photos5.Event Files   Types of GIS Data Sets  
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1.ArcView native format2.Widely used3.Minimum Files-.shp,.shx,.dbf 4.Additional Files-.prj,.xml,.sbn and .sbx   ArcView Shapefiles  
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1.heads-up digitizing and editing2.less storage/rapid display3.can export to CAD   ArcView Shapefile Advantages  
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1.one feature type2.no area or perimeter with new shapefiles   ArcView Shapefile Disadvantages  
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1.Created with ArcInfo (ESRI)2.Older ESRI format3.Set of files withing a folder or directory called a workspace4.FIles represent different types of topology or feature types5.Directory names INFO   ArcInfo Coverages  
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1.Many Feature types2.polygons share borders3.area/perimeter fields automatic   ArcInfo Coverages Advantages  
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Cannot edit in ArcMaap   ArcInfo Coverages Disadvantages  
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1.polygon 2.arc 3.annotation 4.tic 5.lable   polygon coverage feature types  
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1.ESRIs highly compressed format2.directly readable by ArcGIS software3.many ESRI data and map datasets are natively in SDC format   Smart Data Compression SDC  
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TIFF (Tagged Image File Formats), GIF (Graphic Interchange Format), JPG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)   digital File formats  
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high quality images, commonly used in publishing, sizes are large because uncompressed   TIFF  
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ideal for schematic drawing that have relatively large areas with solid color fill and few color variations, small file sizes   GIF  
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most widely-used format for photographs and other images that have a lot of color variations, uses file compression at the expense of picture detail   JPG  
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1.Geographic Coordinate System(GCS)2.Spherical coordinates3.Angels of rotation of a radius anchored at Earths center4.Latitude and Longitude   coordinate systems  
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