Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS: A Workbook Approach to Learning GIS, 3rd Edition

Labeling Features with Selected Attributes

____ 16. Right-click again on TextToFeature_Polygons. Remove it from the map, then right-click on TextToFeature_Lines and select Properties. Navigate to the Labels tab if necessary. Change the Label Field to Shape_Length. Click Apply and then OK. Now you will see the lines labeled with their lengths. ______, ______, ______. Now label each line with its OBJECTID. ______, ______, ______. Finally label each line again with its File_ID (the values you provided when you created the features). ______, ______, ______. Dismiss ArcMap without saving the map.

Exercise 4-5 (Quick Quiz)

Areas and Perimeters

For each pair of polygons in Figure 4-20, write the Shape_area and Shape_length (perimeter) in the table. The length of each side of the large square is 12. The length of each sided of each small square is 4.

FIGURE 4-20 Area and perimeter quiz

Polygon	Area	Perimeter
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Exercise 4-6 (Project)

Making a File Geodatabase Feature Class for Foozit_Court

Now you know how to make a line feature class with ArcToolbox’s Create Features from Text File tool and how to create polygons from the lines. In what follows you will make a more complex feature class and examine it.

A Foozit court is a (hypothetical) game surface, somewhat like a tennis court in ...