| Abstract: |
This session will focus on the basics of managing and using geographic information in the geodatabase. The geodatabase, either personal, file-based, or stored in an RDBMS with ArcSDE, provides many advantages over shapefiles and coverages. Topics will include the fundamentals of the geodatabase such as feature classes, feature datasets, and the correct setting of tolerances and resolutions. Projections and coordinate systems will be discussed, as well as the use of high precision geodatabases. Geodatabase annotation, using domains and subtypes, geometric networks, relationship classes, locators, rasters, and other structures that can be managed in a geodatabase will be discussed. This session will touch briefly on the use of multi-user enterprise geodatabases managed in ArcGIS Server; however, versioning, replication, and history will be covered in another session (see below). Recommended for users who have just started, or are considering using the geodatabase. |