ArcGIS and the Digital City : A Hands-On Approach for Local Government

by Huxhold, William E.

• ISBN13: 9781589480742
• ISBN10: 1589480740
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Esri Pr

Summary

Both a textbook for GIS classes in urban planning and a workbook for local governments, this book shows how to do real tasks that are required when a city decides to go digital and use geographic information systems (GIS) to store and access information. With this book, planners, analysts, and other local government staff use data from a real city to perform tasks such as creating buildings and parcels, setting coordinate systems, and building geodatabase topology. After creating a geodatabase, working with attribute data, and geocoding data, planners will be able to perform spatial analysis to find possible drug houses near playgrounds, find buildable vacant lots, produce land use reports, and more.

Author Biography

Eric M. Fowler teaches GIS at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
Creating a geodatabase	1	(104)
Examine the existing Arc City data	5	(8)
Create the Arc City geodatabase and import CAD data	13	(20)
Create separate parcel and building feature classes	33	(13)
Correct digitizing errors and create a topology	46	(13)
Create parcel polygon features	59	(8)
Find and fix errors in parcel polygon features	67	(17)
Create building polygon features	84	(10)
Create block features	94	(9)
Review and clean up the database	103	(2)
Using and geocoding attribute data	105	(50)
Join tax assessment data to parcel features	108	(6)
Add census data to the blocks	114	(7)
Create districts from blocks	121	(10)
Calculate sales values	131	(5)
Query attribute files	136	(13)
Geocode parcels with blocks and districts	149	(6)
Reporting and performing spatial analysis	155	(92)
Produce the Arc City land-use report	162	(28)
Produce the Arc City residential density report	190	(8)
Produce the floodplain report and map	198	(23)
Produce the mosquito analysis and report	221	(10)
Find possible drug houses near playgrounds	231	(16)
Updating spatial and attribute data	247	(48)
Convert CAD drawing of Weil addition to a geodatabase feature class	251	(17)
Update the Arc City parcel data with new parcels in the Weil addition	268	(27)
Conclusion	295	(6)
References	301	(2)
How to install data from the CD	303