{"id":711,"date":"2016-04-15T17:11:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T05:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/si-geology\/?page_id=711"},"modified":"2016-06-22T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T22:42:09","slug":"digitising-a-geological-map-in-arcgis-desktop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/si-geology\/training-for-staff-and-students\/digitising-a-geological-map-in-arcgis-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitising a geological map in ArcGIS Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This document covers the process of digitising a geological map in ArcGIS desktop 10:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/si-geology\/files\/2016\/04\/Digitising-a-geological-map-in-arcgis-desktop-10.pdf\">Digitising-a-geological-map-in-arcgis-desktop-10.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are the files that I use in the tutorial:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/download.otagogeology.org.nz\/training\/geology-digitising-editing-files.zip\">geology-digitising-editing-files.zip<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other resources are available here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/si-geology\/resources\/illustrationgraphics-resources\/\">Illustration and map resources<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Key parts of digitising not covered in these videos are covered on these pages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/si-geology\/training-for-staff-and-students\/preparing-a-topo-overlay-in-arcgis\/\">Preparing a topo overlay in ArcGIS desktop<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/si-geology\/2015\/04\/16\/adding-xy-data-to-arcgis\/\">adding-xy-data-to-arcgis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/si-geology\/2015\/04\/24\/plotting-structural-geology-data-in-arcgis\/\">plotting-structural-geology-data-in-arcgis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Video tutorials (screencasts) &#8211; digitising a geological map in ArcGIS Desktop<\/h2>\n<p>The following screencasts document the process:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLTOJerlcKKiksuRGotKEdZOuimT7oOlTG\">Playlist on Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Evaluating and setting up your map for digitising and georeferencing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Digitising a Geological map in ArcGIS Desktop 10.3 (Part 1 of 4)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tYtWjYI2S3g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>2. Covers setting up the file geodatabase. Digitising the contacts and symbology for the contacts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Digitising a Geological map in ArcGIS Desktop 10.3 (Part 2 of 4)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VpOOpxVONZ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>3. Covers generating unit polygons and applying symbology and labels to the unit polygons.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Digitising a Geological map in ArcGIS Desktop 10.3 (Part 3 of 4)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rk2szd7MkIA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>4. Covers a bit about digitising other map elements such as faults, anticlines, structural data. I discuss topology, topo overlay and how to export your map in vector format.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Digitising a Geological map in ArcGIS Desktop 10.3 (Part 4 of 4)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/upa3Pay9fBM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This document covers the process of digitising a geological map in ArcGIS desktop 10: Digitising-a-geological-map-in-arcgis-desktop-10.pdf Here are the files that I use in the tutorial: geology-digitising-editing-files.zip Other resources are available here: Illustration and map resources Key parts of digitising not covered in these videos are covered on these pages: Preparing a topo overlay in ArcGIS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10389,"featured_media":0,"parent":184,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-711","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/si-geology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/si-geology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/si-geology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/si-geology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/si-geology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/si-geology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/711\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/si-geology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/si-geology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}