David W. Allen has been working in the GIS field for over 35 years, the last 30 with the City of Euless, Texas, and has seen many versions of ArcInfo and ArcGIS come along since he started with version 5. He spent 18 years as an adjunct professor at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas, and now serves as the State Director of Operations for a volunteer emergency response group developing databases and templates. Mr. Allen is the author of GIS Tutorial 2: Spatial Analysis Workbook (Esri Press, 2016).

• IntroductionChapter 1 Designing the geodatabase schemaTutorial 1-1: Creating a geodatabase--building a logical modelExercise 1-1Tutorial 1-2: Creating a geodatabas--expanding the logical modelExercise 1-2Chapter 2 Creating a geodatabaseTutorial 2-1: Building a geodatabaseExercise 2-1Tutorial 2-2: Adding complex geodatabase componentsExercise 2-2Chapter 3 Populating and sharing a geodatabaseTutorial 3-1: Loading data into a geodatabaseExercise 3-1Tutorial 3-2: Populating geodatabase subtypesExercise 3-2Chapter 4 Extending data formatsTutorial 4-1: Putting your data onlineExercise 4-1Tutorial 4-2: Creating 3D scenesExercise 4-2Chapter 5 Working with featuresTutorial 5-1: Creating new featuresExercise 5-1Tutorial 5-2: Using context menu creation toolsExercise 5-2Chapter 6 Advanced editingTutorial 6-1: Exploring more creation toolsExercise 6-1Tutorial 6-2: Building feature templatesExercise 6-2Chapter 7 Working with topologyTutorial 7-1: Working with map topologyExercise 7-1Tutorial 7-2:Working with geodatabase topologyExercise 7-2Index