ArcGIS and the digital city a hands-on approach for local government

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 Notes

William E. Huxhold, GISP, is a well-respected GIS theorist and professor in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of Urban Planning
Eric M. Fowler, GISP, teaches GIS at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and develops GIS applications for governments and private companies at R. A. Smith & Associates, Inc.
Brian Parr manages workbooks for Educational Products at ESRI and is an ArcGIS instructor and technical writer

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Chapter 1 Creating a geodatabase	p. 1
Exercise 1a Examine the existing Arc City data	p. 5
Exercise 1b Create the Arc City geodatabase and import CAD data	p. 13
Exercise 1c Create separate parcel and building feature classes	p. 33
Exercise 1d Correct digitizing errors and create a topology	p. 46
Exercise 1e Create parcel polygon features	p. 59
Exercise 1f Find and fix errors in parcel polygon features	p. 67
Exercise 1g Create building polygon features	p. 84
Exercise 1h Create block features	p. 94
Exercise 1i Review and clean up the database	p. 103
Chapter 2 Using and geocoding attribute data	p. 105
Exercise 2a Join tax assessment data to parcel features	p. 108
Exercise 2b Add census data to the blocks	p. 114
Exercise 2c Create districts from blocks	p. 121
Exercise 2d Calculate sales values	p. 131
Exercise 2e Query attribute files	p. 136
Exercise 2f Geocode parcels with blocks and districts	p. 149
Chapter 3 Reporting and performing spatial analysis	p. 155
Exercise 3a Produce the Arc City land-use report	p. 162
Exercise 3b Produce the Arc City residential density report	p. 190
Exercise 3c Produce the floodplain report and map	p. 198
Exercise 3d Produce the mosquito analysis and report	p. 221
Exercise 3e Find possible drug houses near playgrounds	p. 231
Chapter 4 Updating spatial and attribute data	p. 247
Exercise 4a Convert CAD drawing of Weil addition to a geodatabase feature class	p. 251
Exercise 4b Update the Arc City parcel data with new parcels in the Weil addition	p. 268
Conclusion	p. 295
References	p. 301
How to install data from the CD	p. 303

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