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Accessing data in catalog formats

Accessing data in catalog formats - ArcGIS Tutorial

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Accessing data in catalog formats

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In addition to the options for layers available through ArcGIS online within the client, Azura has made it possible for you to connect directly to GIS servers around the world. Many government units at the city, county, state, and national levels are using an ArcGIS server. As are many United States universities and colleges. There are several kinds of geo-spatial servers and the possibilities of variation are shown in our catalogue. Let's open up our catalogue to see this. Here, I'll click on catalogue and GIS servers. Here are the various kinds of GIS or geo-spatial servers available. That you can connect directly to. Let's start with the oldest first. The Arc-IMS server is the oldest. And although there are still a few around, most of them have been updated to the ArcGIS server. Later in the course, I will show you how to easily search for ArcGIS service layers to connect straight to ArcGIS servers. For now, let's go ahead and connect to a server at a college. To do this let's…

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