Data Management Tools
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Data Management Tools |
The Data Management toolbox provides a rich and varied collection of tools that are used to develop, manage, and maintain feature classes, datasets, layers, and raster data structures.
The Data Management toolbox consists of groups of tools, they will be explained with an explanation of all the tools as follows:
Geometric Network Toolset:
The engineering network Toolset contains tools for creating, managing and running tracing tasks on engineering networks, and an engineering network is a set of connected edges and connections, along with connection rules, that are used to represent and model the behaviour of the public network infrastructure in the real world. Water distribution, electric lines, gas pipelines, telephone services, and the flow of water in a stream are examples of resource flows that can be modelled and analyzed using an engineering network. With a geometric network, you can perform various network analyzes such as searching for loops or circuits within the network or tracing the direction of the current or downstream to find the source of the flow within the network:
Adds an edge-edge connectivity rule to a geometric network.
Adds an edge-junction connectivity rule to a geometric network.
Creates a geometric network in a geodatabase using the specified feature classes, role for each feature class, and the specified weights with weight associations.
Finds junctions not connected to edges for a simple junction feature layer.
Finds edges not connected to any other edges for simple and complex edge feature layers.
Deletes and re-creates the logical network index for the geometric network. If the geometric network is in an enterprise geodatabase and is versioned, the logical network will be rebuilt across all versions of the database. This tool will not change features in the network, no snapping will occur, and no orphan junction features will be created.
Removes a connectivity rule from the geometric network.
Removes an empty feature class from a geometric network.
Sets the flow direction for a geometric network based on either the digitized direction or the source/sink settings in the geometric network.
Solves the specified network analysis problem based on the flags, barriers, and specified weight properties.
Detects and optionally repairs a variety of connectivity and geometry problems within geometric networks.
Graph Toolset:
The Chart Toolset provides tools for creating and saving graphs. You can use the tools to create various graphs (bar, line, etc.) and save them as graph or image files. The ability to create graphs allows you to visualize output data or analysis results from a model or workflow in the form of a graph:
Creates a graph as a visual output using a graph template or an existing graph.
Saves a graph to an image, vector, or graph file.
Indexes Toolset:
The Indexes Toolset provides tools for creating and removing indexes.
ArcGIS uses indexes to quickly locate data. Attribute indexes are used to locate records that match an attribute query, and spatial indexes are used to locate features that match a spatial query:
Adds an attribute index to an existing table, feature class, shapefile, coverage, or attributed relationship class.
Attribute indexes are used by ArcGIS to quickly locate records that match an attribute query. For information on attribute indexes in geodatabases, see Creating attribute indexes.
Adds a spatial index to a shapefile, file geodatabase, or enterprise geodatabase feature class. Use this tool to either add a spatial index to a shapefile or feature class that does not already have one or to re-create an existing spatial index.
This tool deletes an attribute index from an existing table, feature class, shapefile, coverage, or attributed relationship class.
Attribute indexes are used by ArcGIS to quickly locate records that match an attribute query.
Deletes the spatial index from a shapefile, file geodatabase feature class, or an enterprise geodatabase feature class.
Spatial indexes are used by ArcGIS to quickly locate features that match a spatial query.
Joins Toolset:
The tools in the Joins Toolset create a link between the layer view and the table. Joins made with the Add Join tool are temporary and only last for the duration of the session. If you need to maintain the relationship between sessions, you can create a relationship using the tools in the Relationship Classes toolkit:
Joins a layer to another layer or table based on a common field. Feature layers, table views, and raster layers with a raster attribute table are supported.
The records in the Join Table are matched to the records in the input Layer Name. A match is made when the input join field and output join field values are equal. This join is temporary.
Joins the contents of a table to another table based on a common attribute field. The input table is updated to contain the fields from the join table. You can select which fields from the join table will be added to the input table.
The records in the Input Table are matched to the records in the Join Table based on the values of Input Join Field and the Output Join Field. Optionally, only desired fields can be selected from the Join Table and appended to the Input Table during the join.
Removes a join from a feature layer or table view.
LAS Dataset Toolset:
It contains tools for creating and managing LAS data sets. The LAS dataset is a triangular surface type that allows fast reading and display of airborne lidar data in LAS format:
Adds references for one or more LAS files and surface constraint features to a LAS dataset.
Creates a LAS dataset referencing one or more LAS files and optional surface constraint features.
Calculates or updates statistics for a LAS dataset and generates an optional statistics report.
Creates a raster whose cell values reflect statistical information about measurements from LAS files referenced by a LAS dataset.
Removes one or more LAS files and surface constraint features from a LAS dataset.
Layers and Table Views Toolset:
The Toolset and Table Views set layers, layers, layers, and table views. Refer to data types for printing can appear in features; CAD, CAD drawing, coverage, profile, TIN, raster format; and raster. Used to support encoding and selections to data on disk:
This tool applies the symbology from a layer to the Input Layer. It can be applied to feature, raster, network analysis, TIN, and geostatistical layer files or layers in the ArcMap table of contents. This tool is primarily for use in scripts or ModelBuilder.
Creates a feature layer from an input feature class or layer file. The layer that is created by the tool is temporary and will not persist after the session ends unless the layer is saved to disk or the map document is saved.
Creates a temporary raster layer from an image service. The layer that is created will not persist after the session ends unless the document is saved.
The input can also be a SOAP URL to an image server.
Creates a LAS dataset layer that can apply filters to LAS points and control the enforcement of surface constraint features.
Creates a mosaic layer from a mosaic dataset or layer file. The layer that is created by the tool is temporary and will not persist after the session ends unless the layer is saved as a layer file or the map is saved.
This tool can be used to make a layer so you can work with a specified subset of bands in a mosaic dataset.
Creates a query layer from a DBMS table based on an input SQL select statement.
This tool applies an SQL query to a database, and the results are represented in a layer or table view. The query can be used to join several tables or return a subset of fields or rows from the original data in the database.
This tool accepts data from a geodatabase or database connection.
Creates a raster catalog layer from an input raster catalog. The layer that is created by the tool is temporary and will not persist after the session ends unless the layer is saved to disk or the map document is saved.
Creates a raster layer from an input raster dataset or layer file. The layer created by the tool is temporary and will not persist after the session ends unless the layer is saved to disk or the map document is saved.
This tool can be used to make a temporary layer, so you can work with a specified subset of bands within a raster dataset.
Creates a table view from an input table or feature class. The table view that is created by the tool is temporary and will not persist after the session ends unless the document is saved.
Creates a temporary raster layer from a WCS service.
Creates a new point feature layer based on x- and y-coordinates defined in a table. If the source table contains z-coordinates (elevation values), that field can also be specified in the creation of the event layer. The layer created by this tool is temporary.
Creates an output layer file (.lyr) from a map layer. The layer file stores many properties of the input layer such as symbology, labeling, and custom pop-ups.
Adds, updates, or removes a selection on a layer or table view based on an attribute query.
Selects features in a layer based on a spatial relationship to features in another layer.
Each feature in the Input Feature Layer is evaluated against the features in the Selecting Features layer or feature class; if the specified Relationship is met, the input feature is selected.
Package Toolset:
The Package Toolset provides tools to combine, package, and share layers (.lyr), map documents (.mxd), address delimiters (.loc), geoprocessing results (.rlt), layer files, map documents, address delimiters, and geoprocessing results. About containers refer to data that may reside on your local disk, across your local area network, or in your organization's geodatabase. The tools in the bundle toolset allow you to combine all your data resources into a single folder location using the merge tools or into a single zip file using the bundled tools. The tools in the package toolkit allow you to organize and share data, maps, address locators, and geoprocessing workflows with others, packages can be shared with others using standard file transfer techniques, or shared with a wider audience by publishing them to ArcGIS Online using the Share Package tool:
Consolidates one or more layers by copying all referenced data sources into a single folder.
Consolidate a locator or composite locator by copying all locators into a single folder.
Consolidates a map and all referenced data sources to a specified output folder.
Consolidates one or more geoprocessing results into a specified output folder.
If the specified folder does not exist, a new folder will be created.
Generates tiles from a map or basemap and packages the tiles to create a single compressed .tpk file.
Consolidates feature layers, basemaps, network datasets, and locators from your map document into a single folder and prepares the folder for use within applications built with ArcGIS Runtime SDKs. This folder can then be provisioned to devices to use with applications that run offline (applications that can run disconnected from ArcGIS Server or ArcGIS Online).
Extracts the contents of a package to a specified folder. The output folder will be updated with the extracted contents of the input package.
Packages one or more layers and all referenced data sources to create a single compressed .lpk file.
Package a locator or composite locator to create a single compressed .gcpk file.
Locators should be stored in a file folder so you take advantage of new features that are not supported for locators stored in geodatabases, such as performance improvements, multithreading capabilities, and suggestions support. ArcGIS 10.4 is the last release to support storing locators in geodatabases.
Packages a map document and all referenced data sources to create a single compressed .mpk file.
Packages one or more geoprocessing results, including all tools and input and output datasets, into a single compressed file (.gpk).
Shares a package by uploading to ArcGIS Online.
Signing in to ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS through ArcGIS Desktop changed in the ArcGIS Desktop 10.2 release. You must sign in to ArcGIS Online or Portal by clicking File Sign In before launching the tool, if you see <Not signed into ArcGIS.com> in the Username parameter. See Signing in to ArcGIS Online in ArcGIS Desktop applications for more information.
Photos Toolset:
- The Photo Toolset contains tools for analyzing and managing digital photo files. The toolkit includes tools for creating a point feature class from geotagged image files (images taken from a GPS camera device or a smartphone) and matching image files to features or table rows based on the timestamp of the image.
- Pictures, as well as GPS coordinates, are becoming increasingly common. These geo-tagged photos are supported by a number of websites that enable users to upload photos and view a map of where the photos were taken. The locations in these images can now be imported into ArcGIS where point features can be managed, modified, and analyzed with the full suite of ArcGIS geoprocessing tools.
- Likewise, the desire to add location information to image files (and vice versa, to add image information for the current feature or tabular data) has become prominent, since images, which are geographic in nature, provide exceptionally rich information about the appearance and conditions at a location at a specific point in time. The tools in the Image Toolkit enable this connection between traditional attributes, tagged data, and image information:
Creates points from the x-, y-, and z-coordinates stored in geotagged photos. Optionally adds photo files to features in the output feature class as geodatabase attachments.
Matches photo files to table or feature class rows according to the photo and row time stamps. The row with the time stamp closest to the capture time of a photo will be matched to that photo. Creates a new table containing the ObjectIDs from the input rows and their matching photo paths. Optionally adds matching photo files to the rows of the input table as geodatabase attachments.
Projections and Transformations Toolset:
- This Toolset contains tools for converting geographic data from one map projection to another. There are additional tools for transforming raster datasets, such as move, rescale, and rotate. When you get GIS data, you often need to convert or project. Since the data you receive is not always pre-processed,
- You will often need to put coordinates on your bitmap. The Transform tools in the Projections and Transformations Toolset can be used to correct these problems. Whether you treat the Earth as a sphere or a sphere, you must transform its surface in 3D to create a flat map sheet.
- This mathematical transformation is usually referred to as a map projection, so to understand how transformations work, you must keep in mind that all places on Earth have a location and that spatial data corresponds to one of those locations.
- Images and raster data that are not preprocessed - which means they come directly from the sensor or scanner - will usually not contain any of these coordinates or locations. Transformation tools are responsible for distorting the image to the correct location and changing the image to the correct direction,
- and the alteration of spatial properties using map projections can be described as shining across the ground on a surface called the projection surface. Imagine that the surface of the Earth is clear, with instinct drawn on it. Wrap a piece of paper around the floor. Alight at the center of the Earth will cast a graticule shadow on the piece of paper.
- You can now unfold the paper and lay it flat. The shape of the gratikol on the flat sheet is quite different from what it did on the ground because the projection of the map distorted the gratikol. No spherical ball can be flattened to a level more easily than flattening a piece of orange peel; will rupture.
- Representing the Earth's surface in two dimensions distorts the shape, area, distance or direction of the data. The map projection uses mathematical formulas to relate spherical coordinates on the globe with flat planar coordinates,
- Different projections cause different types of distortions. Some projections are designed to reduce the distortion of one or two data characteristics. Dropping can conserve an element's area but change its shape:
Reorients the raster by turning it over, from top to bottom, along the horizontal axis through the center of the raster. This may be useful to correct raster datasets that are upside down.
Reorients the raster by flipping it, from left to right, along the vertical axis through the center of the raster.
Transforms a raster from one projection to another.
Automatically aligns a raster to a reference image or uses a control point file for georegistration. If the input dataset is a mosaic dataset, the tool will operate on each mosaic dataset item. To automatically register the image, the input raster and the reference raster must be in a relatively close geographic area. The tool will run faster if the raster datasets are in close alignment. You may need to create a link file, also known as a control point file, with a few links to get your input raster into the same map space.
Resizes a raster by the specified x and y scale factors.
Turn a raster dataset around a pivot point.
Moves (slides) the raster to a new geographic location, based on x and y shift values. This tool is helpful if your raster dataset needs to be shifted to align with another data file.
Transforms a raster dataset using source and target control points. This is similar to georeferencing.
Transforms a raster dataset using an existing text file containing source and target control points.
Batch Project
Changes the coordinate system of a set of input feature classes or feature datasets to a common coordinate system. To change the coordinate system of a single feature class or dataset use the Project tool.
Converts coordinate notations contained on one or two fields from one notation format to another.
Create Custom Geographic Transformation
Creates a transformation method for converting data between two geographic coordinate systems or datums. The output of this tool can be used as a transformation method for any tool with a parameter that requires a geographic transformation.
Creates a spatial reference for use in ModelBuilder.
Overwrites the coordinate system information (map projection and datum) stored with a dataset. This tool is intended for datasets that have an unknown or incorrect coordinate system defined.
All geographic datasets have a coordinate system that is used throughout ArcGIS to display, measure, and transform geographic data. If the coordinate system for a dataset is unknown or incorrect, you can use this tool to specify the correct coordinate system. You must know the correct coordinate system of the dataset before using this tool.
Projects spatial data from one coordinate system to another.
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