Global Geographic Information Systems

ArcView GIS Tool Buttons

  Save - Saves the current project 

Add a theme - Adds a theme to the current view 

Theme properties - Opens theme properties editor

Legend editor - Allows user to alter the appearance of the legend

Open theme table - Opens the attribute table associated with the active theme

Find features - Uses a term to search the table

Locate address - Locates and opens the web page associated with the theme

Query Builder - Searches the table associated with the active theme

- Zoom full extent - Zooms to the full extent of the view

- Zoom to selected theme - Zooms to the extent of the selected theme

- Zoom to selected feature - Zooms to the extent of the selected features

  - Zoom in - Zooms in to the center of the view

  - Zoom out - Zooms out to the center of the view

  - Zoom previous - Zooms to the previous view

- Select by graphic - Selects features in the active theme that are under, or within a distance of, a graphic this is drawn on the view

- Clear selected features - Deselects any features that are selected in an active theme

- Help - Provides information about a button or feature that it is clicked on

- info - Displays the attribute features from an active theme for an area that is clicked on

- Pointer - Used to select, move and resize features

- Vertex editing - Used to edit the location of vertex in a theme (DISABLED IN DP)

- Select by feature - Drag the mouse to create a box in which all features in the active theme are selected

  - Zoom in - Zooms in centered on cursor, can also be used to drag a box to zoom in to

  - Zoom out - Zooms out centered on cursor, can also be used to drag a box to zoom out to

- Drag and drop view - Grabs the view and shifts it around

- Scale measure - Measures the distance between two points, will be in the units specified under View:Properties:Map Units

- Hot link - Opens a page on the web linked to a feature in the active theme 

  - Area of Interest - Selects features in a map library (DISABLED IN DP)

- Tag - Adds a label to a feature that is clicked on 

- Text - Adds text to a view, will add the text to the active theme

- Draw and Edit tools - Adds points, lines and polygon features

- Delete Report Theme - Removes a theme from a map report

- Add Report Theme - Adds a theme to the map report

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