Project: Coupling GIS with GPS

Today Jim Bills placed ArcGIS 9.1 on my computer so that once I start bringing in the new GPS data from the Leawood sewer area I can go and correct the old manhole positions to the new GPS plotted points. For now he has my expirementing with GIS, adding and managing layers, working on varying label types with the Maplex label engine, getting layer data, changing the point label/symbol and more. I thought I'd post a screenshot of some of the data I had imported.

Imported into this view are the following layers:
-addpt - includes the address point database, can bring up house #'s property ID's, etc
-co_cent - street centerlines
-indx_arc (off) - 10 foot topo contours
-co_cov -"section" markings
-soils (off) - soil quality/type map data
-Ortho2005_NE (off) - includes the aerial photography for the NE part of the county
-Ortho2005_NW (off) - includes the aerial photography for the NW part of the county
-Ortho2005_SE - includes the aerial photography for the SE part of the county
-Ortho2005_SW (off) - includes the aerial photography for the SW part of the county

The reason several of the layers are off is that everytime you move the map it has to redraw all the layers (you can set zoom thresholds, one is set for soil, but soil is off anyways) so if your zoomed out at the city level and move to the side just a little bit it redraws thousands of polylines, points, etc which can take quite a while.