Preface

ArcGIS for Desktop is an important component of the Esri ArcGIS platform. ArcGIS for Desktop allows you to visualize, create, analyze, manage, and distribute geographic data.

ArcGIS for Desktop Cookbook starts with the basics of designing a file geodatabase schema. Using your file geodatabase schema, you will learn to create, edit, and constrain the geometry and attribute values of your data. In this book, you will learn to manage Coordinate Reference System (CRS) issues in the geodatabase context.

This book will also cover the following topics: designing and sharing quality maps, geocoding addresses, creating routes and events, analyzing and visualizing raster data in 3D environments, and exporting/importing different data formats.

Knowing and understanding your data is essential in any spatial analysis and geoprocessing process. Therefore, you will work with two main geodatabase structures that fully support all topics covered by this book's chapters.

ArcGIS for Desktop Cookbook will clearly explain all the basic steps performed in every recipe of the book to help you refine your own workflow.