Module H: Setting up a Project
Overview
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this topic you will be able to:
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages or organizing data based on themes or by location
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages of organizing data in a folder-based system, a personal geodatabase or a file geodatabase
- Create and populate a personal / file geodatabase
- Create new shapefiles
Activity 1: Create a new shapefile
The following video shows how to create a new shapefile in your workspace (Note the importance of georeferencing).
Create three new shapefiles in your workspace; one for polygon features, one for multiline features and one for point features
Activity 2: Basic Digitizing
The following video shows some basic digitizing operations