Using ArcView GIS:
Part 3
Learning more of the
basics for ArcView 3.3
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Areas to be covered today
ESRI USA Data
 Turning on/off legends
 Data table (attributes) – Tables window
 Where is an entity
 What is at an entity (Identity icon)
 Zooming in/out on Layout map
 Adding Default Labels
 Adding inset maps or additional maps
to Layout
 Writing a ProcLib
 Using Help in Arc-View

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ESRI Data Sets on C: drive
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Note how cumbersome listing all
the states is
Turning-off
the legends
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Result
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How does this effect the final
Layout Window?
I’ll leave this for you to re-call.
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Accessing Attribute Data
Use Open
Theme
Table Icon
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Results when States is Active
Theme
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What was the active Theme here?
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A tile of all active windows
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Where is the entity Iowa?
Make active in Attribute Window
then look on View Window
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What was done?
1. In the Attribute table window for States click on Iowa
2. In the View window Iowa turns Yellow. This is most
easily seen if all states are given a single symbol in the
Legend editor
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Now reverse the question and ask
“What is at the entity – Iowa”
By clicking the
Identity Icon over
the state of Iowa
the list of
attributes appears
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Now causing an entity to be
“selected” from the View
Window
Let’s
Select a
river in
Alaska
Start by
making
the View
Window
active
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Making an Entity Active
Use the “Select
Feature” Icon
Then go to the
entity you wish
to select and
click
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The Result
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Housekeeping, when you are done
with an entity Un-Select by clicking
this icon
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Zooming In and Out in Layout
A View Window
and a Layout
Window are
actively linked,
by zooming in
on the View
the Layout
moves as well
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Result
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Adding Labels to Entities
In the VIEW
window just:
1. Make a
theme
active
2. Click the
Label Icon
3. Click on the
map on the
entity
4. Then move
things
around with
the black
arrow until
you are
happy
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Adding Inset Maps for Location
Most
Americans
know where
Wyoming is
but what if
your
audience is
a group in
Kazakhstan
Note that I
have added
some names
here by
using the
Label Icon
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Creating the “new” Inset Map in a
New View
First from the
Project Window
highlight View
then click the
New Button
Initial Layout
Initial View
or View 1
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First Create the Inset Map in a New
View
To your new view
add an
appropriate
Theme and clean
things-up
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After having zoomed in, cleaned up
the legend and selected Wyoming
my Second View is as follows
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From the Layout Choose the View
Frame Icon
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Go to an appropriate location and
with your cursor draw a box for the
insert map
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When the pop-up window appears
select the proper view (View2 here)
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Then click OK
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Result inserted map
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Clean Map
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Insert Maps
 Inserted
maps can be locator maps
or any other type of map
 You can have as many maps as
appropriate in your final Layout
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Requirements for a ProcLib

Title: -- should inform the reader immediately as to the nature of the proclib
Purpose: more detailed description of the proclibs use
Procedure:
(in step by step outline format quickly indicate all steps necessary to perform
the procedure)
1. .................
2. .................
3. (major step)
(substep or choices)
..........
.
Originator: your name: (if questions your name and e-mail)
Procedure Creation Date: (when was this made or updated)
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ProcLib Example
Title: Overcoming ArcView Printing Problems
Purpose: Occasionally ArcView Layouts or Views refuse to print, here are two methods to overcome
the problem.
Procedure:
1. Check your diagnoses. Make sure the printer is on and has paper. Then in Layout or View window
make sure that under File/Print Setup, the correct printer has been addressed. No go? Continue.
2. Simple Fix (this sometimes works) use the print command File/Print and in the window that popsup change the radio button from ArcView Enhanced to ArcView Basic.
3. Longer Fix: If it still doesn’t work then we need the two step procedure.
• In the Layout window go to File/Export set the location where you want to save an image of
your map and give it a file name (in that order). Hit OK.
• Open either MSWord or Powerpoint. Bring-up a blank sheet and Insert/Picture/From File
• Adjust the map in on your page and print it.
4. Alternate for Powerpoint.
• With Layout showing on your computer screen use the Shift and Print Screen keys to
capture your image.
• Open Powerpoint and Paste this image from your computer buffer and
• using tools in Powerpoint crop the result till it is neat.
Originator: P. Buckley [email protected]
Procedure Date: 10-03-02, updated 04-20-06
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Using Help in ArcView
I don’t highly recommend this the
Help available with the software, but
sometimes this is all you have
 It can be accessed from any window
once the program is opened

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Help Menu
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Entering the Help Manual
Click on
the Help
entry then
the Help
Topics
This will then
open a Help
Topics Window
I usually use
the Index tab,
but each has
some merit
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Results for Layout (Class)
inquiry
Not perhaps the most easily understood
definition, but …
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