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Digitising in Arcgis

This document provides instructions for digitizing land cover data in ArcGIS. It describes how to: 1) Add basemap and townland map data to an ArcGIS project. 2) Search for and zoom to a specific townland polygon to focus the digitization. 3) Create a new feature dataset and land cover feature class to store the digitized polygons. 4) Start an editing session and digitize forest and woodland polygons within the townland by drawing polygons on the map and populating an attribute field.

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Digitising in Arcgis

This document provides instructions for digitizing land cover data in ArcGIS. It describes how to: 1) Add basemap and townland map data to an ArcGIS project. 2) Search for and zoom to a specific townland polygon to focus the digitization. 3) Create a new feature dataset and land cover feature class to store the digitized polygons. 4) Start an editing session and digitize forest and woodland polygons within the townland by drawing polygons on the map and populating an attribute field.

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Digitising in ArcGIS

1 Open Arc GIS- Click, “Add Data” , “Add


BaseMap” “Imagery”
We will now add a new file- a townland map of Ireland From OSI

Click Add DATA Button, then Click


“Add Data from ArcGIS Online”

Then Click the Add button for the


TOWNLANDS, Osi, IRELAND map
You wont see much happening on the
screen But if zoom into a small part of
Ireland. Your screen will look like:
Each little mapped area is a “Townland” the smallest
admin unit in Ireland. Right click on the townland in the
TOC and select “Show Attribute Table”. This shows you
the list of all the townlands in the map.
We are going to search for 1 townland and then zoom to it.
Click “Table Options” Button
Click OFF “Showfield aliases”.
This means the column names match
the names in the background database
Click Table Options- Select By Attribute

Enter “TD_ID” = ‘41918’

And click APPLY


Back in the Townland Attribute Table
we can see that one row has been selected
If we click the “zoom to selected” button we can see it on the map
If we click on the symbol under
townland we can change the symbology to
be hollow and see the image underneath
This is the small area we are going to digitise to
produce a simple land cover map
The 7 different land covers
• Forestry

• Improved Grassland

• Natural
Vegetation
Built Land
• Bare Soil
Woodland Hedgerow
We will produce a digitised map of all
FORESTRY and WOODLAND in the area
First we need to create and empty file (called a feature
data set in ArcGIS- or Vector File generally)

• Right click on your Geodatabase in the catalogue and


slect new and “Feature Dataset…”
First Create simple name then click
NEXT
• Select IRENET95 as the coordinate system.
• Click NEXT
• Click next on the following panel witout
changing anything and click FINISH again
keeping the defaults
Your new File appears in the File geo-database (I called
mine Forest_wood)
• Right click on it, select New then Feature Class
Change the Feature Class name to
LandCover. Then just click Next until
Finish keeping defaults.
We get a projection Error

• Click Transformations
• We
Transform
FROM this
• To
• This
• Using this
• Click OK
Add a FIELD to our Feature Layer
This is a colum in the Attribute table we
can use to label our polygons- fill out as
below and click OK
Finally we can start editing
We are editing the LandCover Feature
Class- OK
We want to create New Features
• Zoom into a Forest area in the townland
• Highlight Landcover in the Create Feature
Window and then select POLYGON
• Your Mouse in now a crosshair. Click the first
corner and then move to the next and click
again
• When you have completed the arae double
click.
You have digitsied your first Forest
Keep adding forest polygons
Make sure you keep saving as you go
along
Clcik Attributes to label your new polygons
ENTER “F” for Forest
When you have digitised all FOREST
Click STOP EDITING
• Then re start editing and do the Woodland
polygons!!
Try these links for more tips and guides
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXVylmS
m8zY

• web.gps.caltech.edu/gislab/HowTo/ESRI%20-
%20Editing%20Data.pd

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