ArcGIS by example : develop three engaging ArcGIS applications to address your real-world mapping scenarios / / Hussein Nasser

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797695403321
• Autore: Nasser Hussein
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Birmingham, [England] ; ; Mumbai, [India] : , : Packt Publishing, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-5231-0608-5; 1-78528-317-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• Collana: Community Experience Distilled
• Disciplina: 005.743
• Soggetti: Cartography - Computer programs; Geographic information systems; Geospatial data
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Credits""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Reviewers""; ""www.PacktPub.com""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Getting Started with ArcGIS""; ""The history of ArcGIS""; ""An introduction to ArcGIS for Desktop""; ""The ArcGIS for Desktop licenses""; ""The system requirements of ArcGIS for Desktop""; ""The important concepts of ArcGIS for Desktop""; ""The ArcGIS geodatabase""; ""Working with the map layers""; ""Customizing ArcGIS for Desktop""; ""The system requirements of ArcObjects""; ""Verifying the installation of ArcObjects""; ""App 1 - the cell tower analysis tool""""App 2 - the restaurant mapping application""; ""App 3 - The excavation planning manager""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 2: The Cell Tower Analysis Tool""; ""An introduction to ArcGIS add-ins""; ""Creating the Hello, ArcGIS add-in project""; ""Preparing the TelZaViBa data and code""; ""Preparing the geodatabase""; ""Preparing the map document""; ""Preparing the TelZaViBa add-in project""; ""Showing the range of each tower""; ""Querying features""; ""The topological operators and graphic elements""; ""Drawing the tower range based on the attribute value""; ""Drawing the range attribute""""Drawing the range for all towers""; ; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 3: Mapping Signal Strength""; ""Adding a point to the map""; ""The ArcGIS coordinate system""; ""Adding the find closest tower tool""; ""Creating a marker point""; ""Finding the distance between two points""; ""Finding the distance between two towers""; ""Finding the distance between the point and a tower""; ""Finding and highlighting the closest tower""; ""Finding the closest tower""; ""Highlighting the closest tower""; ""Displaying the signal strength""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 4: Real-time Maneuvering""""Adding real-time cell phone simulator button add-ins""; ""Creating a map point from the x and y coordinates""; ""Reading and mapping external GPS point coordinates""; ""Reading external GPS coordinates""; ""Mapping GPS coordinates""; ""Enabling signal maneuvering and highlighting the active tower""; ""Loading the GPS file""; ""Enabling maneuvering with a timer""; ""Highlighting the selected tower and showing signal strength""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 5: App 2 - Extending ArcObjects""; ""Extending ArcObjects""; ""Preparing bestaurants geodatabase and map""; ""Preparing the bestaurants project""""Adding the restaurants mapping toolbar""; ""Adding the restaurants viewer button""; ""Adding the button""; ""Assigning a button to the toolbar""; ""Querying restaurants subtypes""; ""A geodatabase workspace""; ""Populating subtypes""; ""Finding restaurants in a subtype""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 6: Reviews and Ratings""; ""Introducing relationships""; ""The Reviews and ratings table""; ""Querying reviews and ratings""; ""Retrieving related records""; ""Calculating the average rating""; ""Highlighting restaurants""; ""The ArcGIS Display object""; ""Highlighting features""