Answer questions about your data and make decisions.
Use color themes to show the elevation of terrain or illustrate the population density of counties.
The colors give the viewer an immediate sense of the population distribution in California |
Create themes by varying the style based on an attribute of the feature; for example, change the color of parcels based on their size. |
Create contour maps and analyze geospatial data by exaggerating elevations or looking at maps in different light conditions. |
Use buffers to analyze features by proximity.
The buffer in this map defines an area within 1000 feet of the river. You can use the buffer to see which parcels lie within the flood zone.
Use overlays to compare two feature classes or layers.
This map overlays two layers (a flood zone and an enterprise zone). You can use the overlay to see where the two intersect. That area becomes a new layer, which you can style and save out to a file and use as a separate data store.
When you use industry models , you have access to functionality that is not available to non-industry model drawings:
You can analyze a network topology (sometimes called tracing) using Network Analysis. For example, trace a wastewater network from one or more designated start features to an optional end feature. Network tracing begins from the start location and ends when all end features have been reached. You can also set attribute-dependent stop conditions, locate point objects on a pipe, locate point objects that are not connected to the network, or pinpoint error in a network topology.
Like the Data Table, forms display the attributes for features. However, instead of displaying the attributes for all features in the feature class, a form lets you view and edit the attributes for a single feature.
Generate default and user-defined reports. For example, create a parcel report that lists area, distance between the parcel border points, parcel borders, points, and parcel numbers. You can perform spatial selections for the reports. For example, you can select all features that lie within a specified area.
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