Creating new features and attributes

So far in this course, you've learned how to display data in different formats in ArcMap, load data into a geodatabase, and edit feature shapes and attributes. For all of these tasks, you were working with existing data—data that had been created by someone else at some other point in time.

If you work with GIS long enough, however, it is inevitable that at some point you will need data that doesn't already exist to answer a particular question. Or, if you are someone who will be collecting data in the field, you will need to know how to get your field data into ArcMap so you can map it and analyze it.