The New Project window appears. By default, projects are saved in a new folder. To save them in an existing folder, uncheck Create a new folder for this project and browse to the folder.

The project is created with a map showing the world. In ArcGIS Pro, maps are composed of layers of geographic data. For now, the only layer is the basemap, which provides reference information such as national boundaries and water bodies.

On either side of the map are panes. By default, the Contents and Catalog panes are open, although other panes may be open if you've used ArcGIS Pro before. The Contents pane lists the layers on the map and the Catalog pane lists all files associated with the project.

Above the map is the ribbon. The ribbon contains several tabs, each with multiple buttons. These buttons may affect map navigation, change the map's appearance, or open windows or panes with more functionality.

The Locate pane appears. Using this pane, you can search for and navigate to geographic locations, including countries, cities, and street addresses.

The map automatically navigates to the first result: the country of Singapore. (The locations of the search results are displayed on the map as circles.)

Singapore, one of the world's smallest nations, is home to 5.6 million people and has four official languages. The modern city contains numerous historical and cultural landmarks, entertainment venues, and ecological sites. It is one of the most visited cities in the world and tourism is a major industry.

The Add Data window appears. You can add data from several sources, including your project's folder (Project), the website of your ArcGIS account (Portal), or your computer (Computer).

Most ArcGIS accounts, including trial accounts, use the ArcGIS Online website as their portal. ArcGIS Online is an online GIS mapping platform that hosts a large amount of spatial data. You'll add the data you need from there.

This option provides access to all data hosted on ArcGIS Online. The data you'll use is owned by the Learn ArcGIS administrator account. To find the data, you'll search for it by name and owner.

The search returns three results: Singapore Tourist Attractions, Singapore Rail Lines, and Singapore Rail Stations.

The three data layers are added to the map.

The layers are also listed in the Contents pane.

The green points are tourist attractions, the white lines are rail lines, and the black polygons are rail stations. Layers that are composed of points, lines, or polygons are called feature layers.

The majority of tourist attractions are grouped in the south-central part of the island. This area is Singapore's downtown, also called the Central Business District. The tourism agency wants their brochure to focus on this area, so you'll zoom to it.

You'll ensure the map is focused on the Central Business District but panning to the nearby Boat Quay.

At this extent, the rail stations are displayed in more detail. Depending on the size of your monitor, more information about streets and buildings may be displayed.

This map extent will be the one you use for the rest of the project. It'll be convenient to quickly return to this extent if needed, so you'll create a navigation shortcut called a bookmark.

The bookmark is created. You'll use this bookmark later in the tutorial.

The basemap changes.

With this basemap, the rail lines stand out more. Unlike the Topographic basemap, this basemap contains two layers. One of these layers, Dark Gray Reference, contains text that labels some areas. This text isn't necessary for your map's purpose and may obscure some features, so you'll turn it off.

The layer no longer appears on your map. (To make the reference information reappear, click the check box again.)

The tourist attractions are displayed on the map as small points that don't stand out well. Because the attractions are meant to be a focal point of the map, you'll change the way they appear.

The Symbology pane appears. Symbology defines a layer's appearance. You can choose from a gallery of default symbols or customize a symbol.

The symbols for tourist attractions change to the chosen symbol. The tear pin symbol helps convey that the tourist attractions are places of interest. The 40% indicates that the symbol is 40 percent transparent, which is useful in case the symbols obscure parts of the map.

You can make the symbols stand out more by adding an outline and increasing the symbol size.

The new symbology is applied to the layer.

Now the tourist attractions stand out more clearly, without obscuring other map features.

The Geoprocessing pane appears.

The Spatial Join tool appears. Most geoprocessing tools have parameters you can set to change the tool's result. For this tool, you'll first choose the feature layers to join.

Next, you'll set the Output Feature Class parameter. Many geoprocessing tools create an output layer, leaving the original layers unchanged.

By default, output layers are saved in a folder specialized for geographic data, called a geodatabase, that was created when you created the project. You'll leave the output location unchanged, but you'll change the output name.

You'll leave the Join one to one operation unchanged. This operation ensures that each tourist attraction is joined to only one rail station, which is ideal because you only want to know the single closest station.

Next, you'll set the Match Option parameter. This parameter determines the spatial relationship between the features to be joined.

The Field Map parameter determines which attributes from each input feature class are kept in the output feature class. You'll learn more about attributes later. For now, you'll only remove the Shape__Area and Shape__Length fields, because you're not interested in the size and shape of the features on the map. The rest of the fields provide useful context for the user.

You've set all the parameters you need. Based on the parameters you've chosen, the tool will run an operation that combines information from each tourist attraction with information from its closest rail station.

The tool runs. When it finishes, a new layer, Tourist_Attractions_Join, is added to the map and the Contents pane. The new layer looks similar to the original Tourist Attractions layer; however, the geoprocessing tool changed the layer's attributes.

Attributes are information associated with each feature in a feature layer. They may include the feature's name, address, area, or many other types of information. You can view a layer's attributes by opening its attribute table.

The attribute table opens.

Each row of the table represents a single feature on the map and each column is a field of information. In this table, the first row corresponds to a feature named Chinatown Heritage Centre on 48 Pagoda Street.

• The Object ID field contains a unique ID number for each feature.
• The TARGET_FID field refers to the target features (Tourist Attractions) we selected for the spatial join.
• The Join_Count field indicates the number of join features that match each target feature.

The table has two fields titled Name. While the first Name field is the name of the tourist attraction, the second Name field is the name of the closest rail station. The second Name field was added to the table after you ran the Spatial Join tool.

You no longer need the original Tourist Attractions layer, so you'll remove it.

The layer is removed. You'll also rename the new layer so that its name matches the one you removed.

The Export Table window appears. This tool converts a layer's attribute table to a new file format. The Tourist Attractions layer is already selected for the Input Table parameter.

The default output location is the geodatabase that was created with the project, Singapore Tourism.gdb. However, a text file cannot be stored in a geodatabase. You'll change the output location to one appropriate for the data you're exporting.

The Output Table window appears.

As with the Spatial Join tool, the Export Table tool includes the option to remove fields from the output table. You'll remove the Join_Count and TARGET_FID fields, which don't provide necessary information for your purposes.

The tool runs and the table is exported. (You can confirm it was exported successfully by checking the output location you chose). Additionally, the exported table is added to the Contents pane under the Standalone Tables heading . You don't need the table in the project, so you'll remove it.

The Labeling tab becomes available. This tab is a contextual tab, meaning it only appears when it's relevant to the data you're working with.

Labels are enabled for the layer. By default, each tourist attraction is labeled with its name. Because there are so many attractions, however, the labels clutter the map and aren't easy to read.

To make the map easy to read, you'll label attractions using their unique ID number instead.

The labels on the map change from long names to smaller numbers. While the numbers don't immediately identify each attraction, the brochure can include the IDs with the table data to help users identify them.

The labels have small, dark text that doesn't show up well on the dark basemap. Additionally, the position of the labels doesn't always make it clear which number corresponds to which attraction. You'll change the appearance and position of the labels to make them clearer.

The labels are updated on the map.

These labels are improved, but there are still a few small problems. First, for some tourist attractions, no labels appear at certain zoom extents. By default, labels are not displayed if they are too close together, to prevent overlapping. Additionally, the labels will look better if they were located more centrally in the pin symbol. You'll make changes to solve both of these problems.

The Label Class - Tourist Attractions pane appears. This pane has advanced labeling options.

Now, no labels are removed from the map due to overlapping. Next, you'll adjust the label position so that it is located more centrally within each pin symbol.

The labels move up slightly, positioning them in the center of the pin symbols.

While some of the labels slightly overlap other pin symbols, they're all generally clear to read. In conjunction with table data published in the brochure, tourists will be able to identify every attraction on the map.

Before you continue, you'll rename your map to something more descriptive. By default, its name is Map.

The Map Properties pane appears.

The map is renamed.

A list of available templates appears. A simple layout is best, as you want the emphasis to be on the map.

The layout opens as a new view. (You can switch between the map view and the layout view using the tabs above the view.)

This layout includes a title, a legend, and a scale bar. All of the layout's elements are listed in the Contents pane. Additionally, the ribbon now displays tabs relevant to interacting with the layout.

By default, the template you chose contains a map of Columbus, Ohio. You'll update the layout's map frame to use your map of Singapore.

The Map Frame pane appears.

The map in the layout changes. However, the map is zoomed to the same extent as before, and Singapore is not visible. The map extent and the layout extent are independent.

You'll use the bookmark you created earlier to navigate to your desired map extent.

The map extent updates to your area of interest.

Next, you'll title the layout.

The Map Title pane appears.

The change is applied to the layout.

You'll also adjust the legend, which explains what all of the symbols on the map mean. The default legend has a white background, which means the white rail lines symbol doesn't show up well. You'll remove the background and adjust the legend's position.

The Legend pane appears. First, you'll change the legend text to white, so that it'll appear on the dark basemap when you remove the legend background.

Next, you'll modify the legend background so you can see the text.

The legend's background is removed.

The scale bar is in the bottom corner, but difficult to see. You'll remove the scale bar, which you don't need.

Your layout is complete.

The tourism agency will print this map image on the inside of the brochure. The back of the brochure will contain a list of the tourist attractions based on the table you exported. Ultimately, the brochure will help tourists find the closest rail station to each tourist attraction.

Next, you'll export the layout to an image file.

The Export Layout pane appears.

The layout is exported to the location you chose.