Understanding GIS. David Smith

      12)Save and minimize the table. You’ll continue to use it in the next exercise.

Exercise 2b: Examine the data

      Now you can see what data you actually have on hand. To do this, you’ll work in the Catalog pane. In lesson 1, you used the Catalog pane to manage your maps and data folders. The Catalog pane is great for going back and forth between your map and your data (which is what you do most of the time).

       Get started

      1)Start ArcGIS Pro, if necessary, and open your LARiverParkSite project. You’ll continue working with your project document from exercise 1b.

      2)Display the Catalog pane. The Catalog pane is generally docked to the right of the map (sometimes hidden as a tab).

       If you close the Catalog pane or can’t find it, you can always open it by clicking the Catalog Pane button on the View tab.

       Insert a new map from the Catalog pane

      Recall that you can insert a map from the ribbon, but this time you’ll add it from the Catalog pane.

      1)In the Catalog pane, expand the Maps folder . Note that the map(s) you’ve created in previous lessons are listed here.

      2)Right-click Maps in the Catalog pane and click New Map in the context menu. A new map is added to the list and opens to the map view.

      3)Right-click the new map item and click Rename. Name the new map Lesson2.

      4)In the Catalog pane, expand Folders by clicking the arrow to the left of it (or double-click Folders). Here you should see the project folder that was created when you started the project (LARiverParkSite) as well as the ParkSite folder that you connected to in lesson 1.

       Survey the SourceData folder

      1)Expand the ParkSite folder.

      2)Expand the SourceData folder.

      3)Expand everything you can under SourceData.