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See also:
■ Converting Data From Other Formats to Drawing Objects (page 377)
■ Converting and Exporting (page 1403)
■ Working with SHP Data (page 572)
■ Styling Features (page 639)
■ To create a map with styled feature layers (page 641)
■ To edit a feature using feature editing commands (page 705)
To bring in features from SHP
1 In
Display Manager (page 2060), click Data ➤ Connect To Data.
2 In the Data Connect window, select Add SHP Connection in the Data
Connections By Provider list.
3 Under Connection Name, type a name for this connection.
You can give the connection any name you like. This name appears in
Map Explorer as the name of the feature source.
4 Under Source File Or Folder, specify the location of the file. To include
multiple files in a group, specify a folder.
Click
to browse to a file. Click the folder icon to browse to a folder.
5 Click Connect.
6 In the feature class list, select the feature classes to include in the map.
If this feature source contains only a single feature class, that feature class
is selected automatically. If it contains multiple feature classes, you can
right-click any of them and select Select All or Select None.
7 Verify that the coordinate systems are correct. You can change an incorrect
coordinate system if necessary
(page 311).
8 Click Add To Map.
To bring in a subset of the data, click the down arrow and select
Add To
Map With Query
(page 309). To filter data after you’ve added the data to
your map, see
Filtering Feature Layers (page 1216).
Features from the selected feature classes appear in your map. You can style,
theme, and edit the features.
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