Getting started with ArcGIS Pro
Questions and Answers 2024/2025
What is ArcGIS Pro?
1) ArcGIS Pro allows you to view, edit, analyze and share your GIS data quickly and
efficiently
2) It uses ribbon-based interface and streamlined workflows.
3) ArcGIS Pro is also designed to be web-connected, so you can access information stored
online as easily as data that you have stored locally and then share it online or locally with
equal ease.
ArcGIS Pro: Template
Starting without a template allows you to do your work without having to create a
project beforehand.
ArcGIS Pro: Project
When you create a project, ArcGIS Pro will generate a folder structure on disk,
including a project file that stores project-related elements, such as maps, layouts,
styles, toolboxes, and geodatabases.
ArcGIS Pro: Catalog pane
expand the various folders to see the maps and scenes, toolboxes, databases,
layouts, styles, and folder connections.
ArcGIS Pro: Ribbon
Ribbon across the top of the application and several tabs. Here, you can add data to
the map, make selections, manage a layer's appearance, or perform other tasks.
ArcGIS Pro is context-sensitive - what does this mean?
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Meaning that when a data layer is selected in the Contents pane, different tabs
become available on the ribbon based on the specific characteristics of the selected
layer.
In ArcGIS Pro, there are several options for viewing your data...
1) two different extents of the same map next to one another
2) view 2D and 3D representations of the data simultaneously
What is native structure for ArcGIS Pro?
Project:
A project consists of a main file with an APRX file name extension and an entire folder
structure designed to contain the project data. These folders contain maps, layouts, tasks,
toolboxes, styles, and connections to databases and folders.
Start ArcGIS promoted to open a project > name it > created in a folder with a name you
chose
An ArcGIS Pro project can contain multiple views of the geometry of the data.
True/False
TRUE:
When you use multiple views of your map, the underlying data and symbology are the same
but the angle or zoom might be different. Therefore, different aspects of the map become
more apparent.
Your project can also contain several different maps.
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