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What spatial data are already in ArcGIS?

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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