Geographical Information

Systems

Software which can be used in GIS

ArcGIS Desktop
Map Window
Quantum GIS
uDig

Introduction ArcGIS
Components of ArcGIS :
ArcMap,
ArcCatalog and,
ArcToolbox

How data are stored in ArcGIS

Coverage
Shapefile
Geodatabase

Coverage
Coverage is a topology based vector data
format
A coverage can be a point coverage, line
coverage ,or polygon coverage .
The coverage model supports three basic
topological relationships.
Connectivity: Arc connects to each other at nodes.
Area definition: An Area is defined by a series of connected arcs.
Contiguity: Arcs have directions and left and right polygon.

Shapefile
Shapefile is a standard nontopological data format.
The Shapefile is now very common format used for
exchanging spatial information between all kind of
systems.
The shapefile is made of following files:
.shp: The SHP file contains the raw geometrical shape data. Each SHP file can
contain items of only one kind of geometry shapes Points, LineStrings, or Polygons.
.shx: The SHX file maintains the shapefile index .
.dbf : The DBF file contains nonspatial attributes of each shape
.prj : The PRJ file gives details about projection.

GeoDatabase
A geodatabase is a relational database that
store geographic information

Lab 1
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