GIS for Public Safety
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GIS for Public Safety: An Annotated Guide to ArcGIS Tools and Procedures
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This book, GIS for Public Safety, focuses on ESRI’s ArcGIS functionality (the most popular GIS software, worldwide) and presents many of the tools and techniques that are commonly used by public safety researchers, analysts, and practitioners. It gives simple steps for descriptive, exploratory, and explanatory mapping tasks and includes concise but meaningful discussions to let you critically assess and accurately apply the software to your own unique specialty. This provides a solid foundation for advanced spatial thinking and permits you to utilize GIS technology in your own innovative ways. Its comprehensive content makes it the perfect coursebook or reference manual for students, researchers, crime analysts, and other GIS users at all skill levels.
To use a construction metaphor, this book is intended to teach a carpenter what tools are in his toolbox and how to use them. This instills confidence in his ability to apply these tools to any job when needed. Other books teach the carpenter specifically how to build a house. However, skills needed to build a house might fail the carpenter when he needs to build furniture instead. GIS for Public Safety focuses on a complete working knowledge of the toolbox to let the carpenter accurately apply the tools to his or her own unique specialty.
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BOOK OVERVIEW
Part I: Introduction
PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE: Introduction to Mapping and ArcGIS
Part II: Making Maps with Existing Data
CHAPTER TWO: Communicating with Maps
CHAPTER THREE: Map Design and Layout
CHAPTER FOUR: Spatial Data Sources, Projections, and GIS Data Management
Part III: Managing and Editing Spatial Data
CHAPTER FIVE: Geocoding Addresses and Working with XY Data
CHAPTER SIX: Spatial and Tabular Joins
CHAPTER SEVEN: Working with Attribute Tables
CHAPTER EIGHT: Georectifying and Digitizing
Part IV: Analyzing Spatial Data
CHAPTER NINE: ArcToolbox and Geoprocessing
CHAPTER TEN: Spatial Analyst Extension, Density Mapping, and 3D Modeling
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Identifying Significant Patterns and Hot Spots
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Detailed Table of Contents
(Over 125 Pages of Content)
PREFACE
What is Public Safety?
Using GIS for Public Safety
About this Book
PC or MAC
CHAPTER ONE: Introduction to Mapping and ArcGIS
What is GIS?
GIS Components
Choosing GIS Resources for Your Organization
People
Software
Is GIS Right for You? Guided Worksheet
Representing Objects (Features) in a GIS
Attribute Tables
DBF Files
Types of GIS Data
Tabular Data
Geographic Data
Images
Shapefiles and Vector Data
Vector Data
Shapefiles
Raster Data
Introduction to ArcGIS
Introduction to ArcView 9
Introduction to ArcCatalog
Connecting to Folder
Seeing File Types
Basic Tasks in ArcCatalog
Previewing Files
Checking Properties
Searching for Map Data
Introduction to ArcMap
Starting ArcMap
Customizing the Interface
Working with the Table of Contents
Data Frames
The Standard Toolbar
The Tools Toolbar
Using the Measure Tool
Adding Tools and Toolbars
Showing Map Tips
Getting Data into ArcMap
Removing Data from ArcMap
Saving Your Work
Saving Map Documents
Using Relative Paths
Map Layers
Naming Files
Storing Files
Geodatabases
Introduction to ArcGIS Desktop Help
Searching Help for Key Words
Getting Help Directly Within the Applications
CHAPTER TWO: Communicating with Maps
Map Symbology
Symbolizing Point Features
Single Symbol
Unique Value
Graduated Symbol
Create New Symbols from Bitmap Images
Symbolizing Polygon Features
Graduated Color
Fill Patterns
Dot Density
Pie Charts
Bar/Column Charts
Stacked Charts
Classification Methods/Schemes
Adjusting Transparency
Querying GIS Data
Query by Attribute
Select by Attribute
Select by Location
Combining Attribute and Location Queries
Removing the Selection of Features or Attributes
CHAPTER THREE: Map Design and Layout
Labeling Features
Using Text Boxes to Label Features
Manually Placing Labels
Auto Labeling
Converting Labels to Annotation
Using Annotation Layers
Designing Map Layouts
Layout View
Page and Print Setup
Adding a Title
Adding a Legend
Adding a Scale Bar
Adding Scale Text
Adding a North Arrow
Rotating a Map
Map Templates
Opening Map Templates
Using Map Templates
Using Inset Map Templates
Creating Your Own Template
Creating Extent Rectangles (Inset Maps)
Exporting Maps
Guidelines for Professional Map Production
Checklist for Professional Map Production and Dissemination
Inserting Maps into Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
Picture Toolbar
Cropping Map Images
Picture Format and Layout
Portable Document Format (PDF) Files
Viewing PDF Documents
Saving Maps and Documents as PDF
PowerPoint Design & Presentation Tips
CHAPTER FOUR: Spatial Data Sources, Projections, and GIS Data Management
Base Maps
FREE GIS Data Sources
Aerial Photographs and Orthophotography
Examining Metadata
ZOOM IN: Police Officers’ Perceptions of Maps and Aerial Photos
Downloading Census Shapefiles
Map Projections
Recognizing the Coordinate System
Projecting Unprojected Shapefiles
Working with Projected Map Layers
Troubleshooting with Projections
Defining Projection for a Data Frame
Creating New Shapefiles from Existing Shapefiles
Using Excel Spreadsheet Files
Converting Files to .DBF
GIS Data Format and Data Cleaning
GIS-Friendly Datasets
CHAPTER FIVE: Geocoding Addresses and Working with XY Data
Geocoding
Preparing Tabular Data
Creating an Address Locator
Geocoding Addresses
Interactive Review and Rematching Addresses
Determining an Acceptable Match Rate
Locating an Individual Address
Creating XY Coordinates from Addresses
Displaying XY Data
Adding XY Coordinates to Points, Lines, or Polygons (Centroids)
CHAPTER SIX: Spatial and Tabular Joins
Joining Tables
Identifying a Key
Joining a Table
Removing Joins
Spatial Joins
Assigning Area Characteristics to Points
Aggregating Points to Lines or Polygons
Downloading & Joining Census Attribute Data
CHAPTER SEVEN: Working with Attribute Tables
Attribute Tables for Shapefiles
Other Attribute Tables
Sorting Records
Freezing Columns
Summary Statistics
Selecting Records
Exporting Tables
Add New Column/Field
Delete Column/Field
Calculating Values Outside an Edit Session
Common Error when Calculating Values
Location Quotients
ZOOM IN: Location Quotient Choropleth Maps
Editing Individual Values
Starting an Edit Session
Editing Attribute Data
Finding & Replacing Values
Measuring with Attribute Data
Measuring Distance with Networks
Calculating Area, Perimeter, and Length
CHAPTER EIGHT: Georectifying and Digitizing
Georectifying Images
Editing Existing Shapefiles
Deleting and Modifying Features
Advanced Edit Tools
Edit Tasks
Merging Features
Intersecting Features
Digitizing Using the Merge Tool
Adding Other Graphics
Creating New Shapefiles
Snapping to an Existing Feature
Adding Attribute Data to New Features
CHAPTER NINE: ArcToolbox and Geoprocessing
Buffers
ArcToolbox Window
Docking and Undocking
Opening Tools
Search Tab
Model Builder
Spatial Data Processing Tools
Transforming Shapefiles
Dissolve
Append
Clip
Intersect
Union
Merge
Create Random Points
CHAPTER TEN: Spatial Analyst Extension, Density Mapping, and 3D Modeling
Spatial Analyst Extension
Install and Register the Spatial Analyst Extension
Activate the Spatial Analyst Extension
Display the Spatial Analyst Toolbar
Density Raster Mapping
Possible Error Calculating Density of Geocoded Points
Density Map Symbology
Symbolizing Raster Density Maps with Multiple Layers
Reclassify Raster Values
Raster/Vector Conversions (Convert Tool)
Raster Analysis/Output Extent
Clipping Raster Maps
“NoData” Raster Cell Values
Raster Calculator
Neighborhood Statistics
Spatial Analyst’s Distance Operations
Straight Line Distance
Allocation
Cost Weighted
Shortest Path
ArcScene 3D Modeling
Adding Shapefile Layers
Removing Layers from ArcScene
Layer Properties
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Identifying Significant Patterns and Hot Spots
Nearest Neighbor Analysis
ZOOM IN: Parole Officer Caseloads
Standard Deviation Ellipses
Hot Spot Analysis (Getis-Ord Gi*)
Additional Spatial Analysis Software
CrimeStat
GeoDa
SchoolCop
SPACE (Spatial Predictive Analysis of Crime Extension)
Geospatial Modeling Environment (GME)
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