Essential GIS Workflows: Presenting Your Project

Name: Essential GIS Workflows: Presenting Your Project
Author: Wade Wilson

Learn how to export, share, and present your GIS project

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In this lesson, we'll look at data sharing methods. This is our ArcGIS Pro project, and what we'd like to share is a single set of this data. There are a couple of ways we can do that. First, let's look at address points. How would we share these? One option is to right click on address points, go to data, and export features. Here, it tells us what data we're exporting, which is our address points. And this is the name of the feature class, the copy of the data that we're creating. We can click on the folder to identify the place we'd like to store it. If it's going to be a feature class, we would need to store it in a file geodatabase, which we click here, and we will say address points, copy. And then we'll click OK. Now, that's stored it into our project database. If you'd like a separate geodatabase that you'd like to share, we can simply click on geodatabase, right click, create a new file geodatabase, identify the location where we'd like to store it. We'll store it in my project for folder. And we'll say this is export address points. Say OK, right click here. Now, you can see we have export address points as a file geodatabase. Let's go back to address points, right click, data, export features. And this time, we'd like to change the location of the geodatabase. My project for to export address geodatabase. Click open, type in the file name, and click OK. Now, to share this data, you would need to go to the project folder, my project for, and a file geodatabase is a series of folders. If I click into export address points, you see there's a lot of files here. You can either copy this entire folder and all its subfolders to share, or a better approach is to simply zip them up. And then you can share the single file. If you would like to share this in a format other than a geodatabase, we can go to sewer system files, right click, data, export features, identify the location where we want to save these. And in this case, we're not going to go to a database. Let's create a new folder. We have data, let's say export, shape files. We open that folder. Here we type in the name of the shape file. And you can see because it is not in a file geodatabase, it is automatically added to the sheet file extension. Click OK. Now, if we navigate to that folder, you can see we have sewer system valves and all the shape files associated with it. These are locked because we actually have it open in our project. What I'd suggest is closing this project. And as you can see, the lock files are now gone. And then again, because it's a series of files, I would compress all these to a zip file. And then you can share the zip file. So what are some other methods to export, data, and share it? We can go to our geoprocessing tab here. Go to toolboxes. Go to our conversion tools. And here we have a selection of options for converting our data to different formats. We can go to AutoCAD. We can go to KML, Format for Google. Again, we can go back to a geodatabase format or to a shape file. These are all options for saving your data to a format and then being able to share that format with others. Thanks for watching. Stay tuned for the next lesson where we'll discuss metadata.

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Course Description

In the past, it was very difficult to share GIS projects, and it often required transmitting large data sets over a network or copying the data to a storage device. Web services now provide the opportunity to share large data sets with consumers of the data in real-time. Maps can also now be shared through web services providing consumers with accurate, up-to-date maps. Project files can also be shared with users that wish to work with the data to perform their own analysis or create their own maps. These files can be generated providing the user with the data and symbology stored in the file, which allows users to create their own maps and modify the maps and data symbology to meet their specific needs.

In this course on Essential GIS Workflows: Presenting Your Project, you will learn some of the best practices for presenting and exporting your GIS projects. We will explore data sharing methods, metadata, map components, as well as common ways to share a project. By the end of this course, you will be able to effectively present, share, and export professional and well-made GIS projects.

What You'll Learn

Discuss common methods for sharing a GIS project
Explain the importance of documenting metadata for a data set
Present a map using essential map elements and components
Explore data sharing methods, including sharing maps and project files through web services
Export professional, well-made GIS projects

Key Takeaways

Web services now allow large GIS data sets and accurate, up-to-date maps to be shared with consumers in real-time, unlike past methods that required transmitting large data over a network or copying it to storage.
Project files can be shared so users can perform their own analysis or create their own maps using the included data and symbology.
Shared project files let users create, modify, and adapt maps and data symbology to meet their specific needs.
Documenting the metadata for a data set is an important part of presenting a GIS project.
Essential map elements and components are used to present a map effectively.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I learn in this course?

You will learn best practices for presenting and exporting your GIS projects, covering data sharing methods, metadata, map components, and common ways to share a project. By the end, you will be able to effectively present, share, and export professional, well-made GIS projects.

What topics does this course cover?

The course includes four lessons: Data Sharing Methods, Metadata, Map Components, and Sharing a Project.

What skills does this course help develop?

It addresses skills including Distributed GIS, Geospatial Information Technology (GIT), GIS Applications, GIS Mapping, Presentation Layer, and GIS Certification.

Why is metadata important when presenting a GIS project?

The course explains the importance of documenting the metadata for a data set as part of presenting your project.

How can GIS projects be shared with others?

The course explores common methods for sharing a project, including sharing large data sets and maps through web services in real-time, and sharing project files that include the data and symbology so users can perform their own analysis or create and modify their own maps.