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I ntroduction to ArcView GIS
Description:
This two-day course provides a conceptual overview and hands-on experience using ArcView GIS software. The course teaches basic ArcView GIS functionality and enables participants to quickly take advantage of the software's powerful display and analysis capabili-ties. Participants are introduced to the ArcView GIS graphical user interface (GUI) and use ArcView GIS to create, edit, display, query, and analyze geographic and tabular data and create presentation-quality maps and charts.
Class participants learn how to:
- Display data in a view.
- Create and edit data.
- Query a database.
- Perform address geocoding.
- Create maps for presentation.
Topics covered:
- ArcView GIS overview: Capabilities and applications; Interacting with the ArcView GIS GUI; Projects and documents; Using ArcView GIS online help.
- ArcView GIS views and themes:
Creating views to display geographic data (themes); Creating themes from x,y coordinates; Setting a view's map projection; Manipulating the symbology and classification scheme for each theme; Labeling themes.
- ArcView GIS tables:
Creating an ArcView GIS table from a variety of tabular data sources; Selecting from a table; Joining and linking multiple tables; Modifying the structure of a table; Editing values in a table; Creating a chart for presenting tabular data.
- Creating and editing themes:
Using AreView GIS to create shapefiles; Adding and editing shapefile features; Updating attribute information; geocoding street addresses.
- Spatial query and analysis:
Selecting features based on relation-ships between multiple themes; Merging theme features.
- ArcView GIS layouts:
Creating a final map for presentation and printing; Combining views, tables, charts, images, north arrows, logos, and scale bars to create a final map.
Prerequisites:
Introducrion to ArcIView GiS is for those individuals with little or no desktop mapping or GIS experience; however, registrants should know how to use windowing software.
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