Download Using ArcPad™

Quick-start tutorial
IN THIS CHAPTER
• Exercise 1: Exploring your data
• Exercise 2: Adding an ArcIMS
layer
• Exercise 3: Working with
geographic features
• Exercise 4: Editing features
• Sample data acknowledgments
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The best way to learn ArcPad is to try it yourself. This tutorial guides you
through some basic ArcPad skills. ArcPad enables you to locate features,
update attribute information, and edit layers—live and in the field. With
ArcPad your fieldwork is more efficient and immediately productive.
The scenario: Imagine you are a field-worker, and your task is to maintain
trees in a city. This tutorial takes you through your day’s work and focuses on
typical field data collection tasks that you can perform using ArcPad.
This tutorial is designed to let you explore the capabilities of ArcPad at your
own pace and without the need for additional assistance. You’ll need about
30 minutes of focused time to complete the tutorial. However, you can also
perform the tasks one at a time if you wish.
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