Class Plan (08/02)

Posted by mapz on 11:34 AM

Georeferencing & Digitization!

Exercise: Digitize two Arlington PD Districts (see here) - (download here) and determine which district has the highest Total Crime Risk.

Crime Risk Data Download

New Tools:

  1. Georeferencing Toolbar: Customize/Toolbars/Georeferencing
  2. Create New feature Class: ArcToolbox/Data Management Tools/Feature Class/Create Feature Class
  3. Editor Toolbar:Pencil Icon or Customize/Toolbars/Editor

Note: We will georeference using 3 points which will transform the image using a first-order polynomial expression (linear). For second-order you need 6 points (quadratic). For third order you need 10 points (cubic).