Creating New Polygon Features Create Printshop at 351 York Street 1.

In the Target: Dropdown on the Editor Toolbar, change the target layer to the Wall_York_Grove_High_New_Haven_1901 layer. 2. Select the Sketch Tool from the Editor Toolbar and place the first vertex of the new polygon by clicking once on any of the four corners of the Print Shop footprint. 3. Place each subsequent vertices (moving sequentially, clockwise or counter-clockwise) by clicking once on each of the footprint corners. 4. When you have placed the fourth corner vertex, right-click anywhere in the map view and select Finish Sketch. 5. If you do not already have the Attributes Editor open, open it from the Attributes Button on Editor Toolbar. 6. Use the values shown to the right to fill in the attributes for the Print Shop. 7. Select Editor>Save Edits on the Editor Toolbar save the new feature and its attributes to the shapefile permanently. 8. Save your work. the

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Deleting, Modifying, Splitting & Merging Features Deleting 246 Grove Street 1. In the Main Menu, go to View>Bookmarks>250 Grove. Note that there is a feature that does not correspond to a building 1

footprint present in the reference image. 2. On the Editor Toolbar, change the Task: to Modify Feature. 3. Activate the Edit Tool .

4. Using the Edit Tool, click once in the orphan feature to select it. 5. Right-click in the selected feature and select Delete. 6. Select Editor>Save Edits on the Editor Toolbar. 7. Save Your Work.

Split 250 Grove Street 1. On the Editor Toolbar, go to Editor>Snapping to open the Snapping Environment Panel. 2. Check all three checkboxes, next to the Wall_York_Grove_High_New_Haven_1901 layer. 3. Close the Snapping Environment Panel. 4. Change the Editing Task: to Cut Polygon Features. 5. Activate the Editing Tool and use it to select the footprint polygon at 250 Grove Street. 6. Activate the Sketch Tool and hover it near the undigitized line in the footprint of 250 Grove Street. Notice how the tool sticks to the lines and vertices of the feature as you come within the snapping tolerance of the line. 7. Use the Sketch Tool to

create a new line that splits the feature between the two sections shown in the reference image. 8. When you have placed the second vertex of the line, right-click and select Finish Sketch. Note that the drawing flashes a little bit when you do this. ArcMap has just Split the polygon into two features with identical attributes. 9. Use the Editor Tool to select the smaller of the two polygons that you just created. 10. Open the Attributes Panel, if it is not already open, and change the values of the polygon as shown on above. 11. Go to Editor>Save Edits. 12. Save your work. Modify 351 York Street 1. On the Editor Toolbar, go to Editor>Snapping to open the Snapping Environment Panel. 2. Check all three checkboxes, next to the Wall_York_Grove_High_New_Haven_1901 layer. 3. Close the Snapping Environment Panel. 4. In the Main Menu, go to View>Bookmarks>351 York. 5. Note that the digitized line at 351 York does not properly follow the footprint shown in the reference image. 6. Change the Editor Task: to Modify Feature. 7. Use the Editor Tool to select the feature at 351 York. 8. Place the cursor over the spot on the northern edge of the feature where there needs to be a new vertex (shown in the image above with a red star). 9. Right-click and select Insert Vertex to create a new vertex for this corner. 10. Hover over the northwest vertex (shown as a red square in the image above) until the pointer

changes to a four arrowed box. Click-hold the vertex and drag it to the appropriate place (as shown at the right). 11. Click outside the feature to deselect it and apply the change. 12. Go to Editor>Save Edits. 13. Save your work.

Merge 352-355 York Street 1. On the Main Menu, go to View>Bookmarks>Office. 2. Change the Editor Task: to Modify Feature, and activate the Editor Tool.

3. Hold down the shift key and select both polygons that make up the footprint of the building at 353355 York Street. 4. On the Editor Toolbar, select Editor>Merge. 5. You will be prompted to select the feature with which other features will be merged. This means that the resulting feature will retain the Attributes of the feature you select. Note that when you select one of the feature names in the list, its corresponding polygon shape flashes in the map document. Select the larger of the two polygons and click OK. The two polygons will merge into one. Note that we will not adjust the attributes in this case, but the field containing measurements of area, perimeter, etc will no longer be valid and should be recalculated, if needed.

6. Go to Editor>Save Edits. 7. Save your work.