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Accessing data in proprietary formats

Accessing data in proprietary formats - ArcGIS Tutorial

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Accessing data in proprietary formats

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Among the many strengths of RGIS 10, is the integration with online content. Commitment to serve content continues to grow and makes GIS exploration and analysis even greater. Here I am in arc map and we're going to take a look at some of the options available of served content. When you click the add data button, notice you have three options, add data from the drive, add Basemap or Add Data from ArcGIS online. If you click on Add Basemap, notice we have a series of basemaps available to us, has provided these within the client. There are served datasets that add as basemaps, or they're loaded into RAM for any application that we want to build. When they're loaded into RAM, that means the refresh rate is very quick. We can quickly pan across each map. The entire layer does not need to redraw itself. Let's click on Imagery just to see it. Now we can zoom in or out of this base map that's loaded into RAM. Every time we zoom in or out, the scale changes. This is a tiled GIS service and…

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