Learning ArcGIS Geodatabases电子书

Learning ArcGIS Geodatabases

Table of Contents

Learning ArcGIS Geodatabases

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Authoring Geodatabases

Bestaurants, the best restaurants in Belize

Designing the geodatabase schema

Creating the geodatabase

The spatial reference

Creating the feature classes

Editing the geodatabase in ArcMap

Summary

2. Working with Geodatabase Datasets

Working with feature classes

Adding new attributes

Modifying the properties of the attributes

Domains

Subtypes

Working with object tables and relations

Working with annotations

Importing other datasets

Importing shape files

Importing the CAD files

Importing coverage classes

Summary

3. Modeling Geodatabases

The entity relationship diagram for Bestaurants

The flaws in the current geodatabase

The proposed geodatabase model

Implementing the proposed model

Authoring the geodatabase

Creating geodatabase datasets

Assigning domains to the feature class

Adding subtypes to the new feature class

Enabling attachments in the feature class

Testing the new geodatabase in ArcMap

Summary

4. Optimizing Geodatabases

Geodatabase indexing

Attribute indexing

Adding an attribute index

Spatial indexing

Adding a spatial index

Using indexes effectively

Geodatabase compression

Compressing a file geodatabase

Using compression effectively

Compacting

Compacting a file geodatabase

Using compacting effectively

Summary

5. Programming Geodatabases

Using Python scripting

Creating a geodatabase

Creating a feature class

Adding and deleting fields

Copying features

Backing up the Bestaurants_Web geodatabase

A list of arcpy commands

Using the model builder

Creating a model

Creating a feature class

Running the model

Summary

6. Enterprise Geodatabases

The benefits of the enterprise geodatabase

Setting up a Microsoft SQL Server Express geodatabase

System requirements

Installing SQL Server Express

Configuring SQL Server Express

Enabling TCP remote pipe

Enabling the firewall's database port

Connecting to the database

Connecting to the database from a remote machine

Creating an enterprise geodatabase

Working with an enterprise geodatabase

Adding users

Creating a connection to the enterprise geodatabase

Migrating a file geodatabase to an enterprise geodatabase

Assigning privileges

Summary

Index