Move the map and zoom in until you find the CSN Charleston Campus (South of Charleston Blvd between Jones & Torrey Pines). Ignore (for now) the transformation window. Let's add a basemap for easier navigation.Ĭlick on the Add Data button and select Add Basemap shp file into the Table of Contents window.
#Add basemap arcmap plus
The folder will now appear in the catalog window under Folder Connection.Ĭlick on the plus sign to reveal the folder content until you see the Fire_Hydrants. Navigate to the folder in which you saved the unzipped shapefile. Go to the Catalog window, and click on the folder with a plus sign to connect to a folder.
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Use the file explorer to navigate to the folder and unzip the file by right-clicking on the file and selecting Extract all. and clicking Extract.Įstablish a connection to the folder in which you saved the unzipped shapefile. Direct the download to a folder you will remember because we will return to this folder with each download and each shapefile retrieval. In the next screen, click on the Fire Hydrants link. Type " fire" in the search box, and select " fire hydrants" from the drop-down menu. You can browse data by category (for example, Education or Existing Infrastructure) or you can simply search for the data by keyword. Start by going to the Las Vegas GeoCommons website.
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To do so, we will download the shapefiles from the Las Vegas GeoCommons site (not the API!) as ZIP files, unzip them, and import them into ArcMap. In this section, we will add the same layers we included in the ArcGIS online exercise into ArcMap.