Geographical Information System (Lab-1) by Dr.

Shahzad Sarfraz
Georeferencing and Digitizing in ArcMap 10
Step 1: Open the Google Earth and search your required area of interest to Geo-reference & Digitize.

Step 2: Crop the required area in any imagining software i.e.

paint/photo Editor. Save it to some local drive i.e.
d:\lab1\CIIT.jpeg
Step 3: Open ArcMap and click on New Map then Blank Map.

Step 4: Right click on the layer->Click

on properties, Select the Set projection
system for Layer

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Step 5: Click on Add Data button-> Browse to your saved image i.e. d:\lab1\CIIT.jpeg and click OK
Step 6: Activate the Geo-referencing tool
bar from Customize menu

Step 7: Click on the Add Control point button and marked

on the target at the image->Right click and put the x, y
values. Do this step for all points.

Step 8: Save the edits and close

the image.
Step 9: Open ArcCatalog from the
Programs Menu and browse to your destination folder d:\lab1. Right click on blank space and click
New-> Shapefile
Step 10: Change name to Buildings->Select Feature type to Polygon and also select the coordinate
system to World->WGS-1984

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Step 11: Close the ArcCatalog and Open ArcInfo
Step 12: Add the image that you have recently Geo-referenced i.e. d:\lab1\CIIT.JPEG and also Add
shape file that you have created i.e. d:\lab1\Buildings.shp
Step 12: Click on the Editor Toolbar and
press start Editing.
Step 13: Click on the Shapefile from
right side and then editing tools will be
active. Select Straight Segment tool and
start digitizing.
Finalize all required
buildings and select Stop Editing
from the Editor Toolbar.

Step 14: Right click on the

Buildings Polygon and click
on Open Attribute Table

Step 14:
Click on the Table Options
Button and press add field

Step 15:
Add field name as Descp
and type as Text

Step 16: Again click on the start editing and

put the description of the buildings. After finishing Stop Edits & Save.