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What spatial data are already in ArcGIS? - ArcGIS Pro Tutorial
From the course: Real-World GIS
What spatial data are already in ArcGIS?
- [Instructor] When you purchase ArcGIS, typically Esri provides you with a data CD or a download of many different GIS base layers and themes. And that's what I'm showing you here. Inside these folders, we have a host of GIS data lots of GIS databases and layers that have a ton of attribute data. And so you'll use this most often in your workflows and in your projects that you do daily. But there's more. Inside of ArcGIS, there are a couple of options to access data that I want to show you now. So here we are in Arc Map and if we click on file in the upper left here, we have a host of different options. The one we're interested in is ArcGIS online. When we click ArcGIS online, this window pane pops up and now we have access to a host of served GIS data all around the world. This data is served from ArcGIS servers. So we can search or we can browse GIS layers here. Let's go ahead and do a search for population density and…
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Where is the GIS data?43s
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How to consider the scale of GIS data2m 35s
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What spatial data are already in ArcGIS?4m 55s
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How to get local and state GIS data2m 54s
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How to get the USA national map data3m 47s
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How to get census GIS data4m 55s
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How to get Earth Explorer data14m 4s
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How to bring hosted GIS data into ArcGIS2m 15s
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Challenge: Get GIS data for a specific geography25s
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Solution: Get GIS data for a specific geography1m 10s
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