Title: Download Tiger Streets for a county
1Download Tiger Streets for a county
2GO TO www.GeographyNetwork.com
3Click Data tab
4Click Downloadable Data
5Scroll down and click Census 2000
6Click Preview and Download
7Click California
8Select Line Features Roads and then click
Submit Selection
9Scroll down and check San Bernardino county (Or
the one you need)
10Scroll down and click Proceed to Download
11Click Download File
12Save to file, Click Save
13Navigate to the c\gistutorial folder and Click
Save
14Click Open Folder
15Double click the ZIP file to open it You may have
to Extract the files WinZIP
16Select the two files and drag them (or extract)
to the c\gistutorial folder
17Double click the second ZIP file (yes there was
one zip file in the other)
18Select the three files shp, shx and dbf These
three make a shapefile Then copy or extract all
three files into the c\Gistutorial folder
19Start ArcMap
20Click the Add Data button, navigate to
c\Gistutorial click the shp file, click Add
21Double click the layer, then click the Symbology
tab
22Click Categories and in the Value Field dropdown,
click CFCC
23Click Add all values and click OK - CFCC codes
are Census Feature
Classification codes. The Census assigns a unique
code to each type of road. Interstates are A11
and A15
24Right click on the line next to A11 and click
Mars Red Right click on the line next to A15 and
click Mars Red Right click on the line next to
A41 and click 10 gray
25Right click the layer and click Open Attribute
table, 167122 roads in sb co
Close the table
26Click Selection, click Select By Attribute
27Double click ZIPL, click , type in 92374 In
the single quotes.
28Click OK, and the roads in 92374 are selected
29Right click the layer and click Selection, and
click Zoom to selected features
30These are the Redlands streets
31Use the Zoom In tool to zoom in on the campus
32Export just the Redlands Streets into their own
shapefile
33Right-click the new layer and click Label
features to turn the street names on