ArcGIS - Bespoke

• Basic understanding of cartography and geographic concepts

Audience

• Geographers
• Environmental scientists
• Archaeologists

ArcGIS is a comprehensive geographic information system (GIS) software that is used for creating, managing, analyzing, and visualizing geographical data.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level IT professionals who wish to use the ArcGIS platform for geographic information system (GIS) tasks.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use ArcGIS to discover, use, make, and share maps.
• Create and update geographic data using editing tools.
• Manage, symbolize, and label map layers to optimize their display.
• Create map displays to visualize data and share analysis results.
• Apply analysis workflow, geoprocessing tools, and models to solve geographic problems.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Introduction

• Course objectives
• The ArcGIS platform
• Additional resources and course data
• Demo

Discover, Use, Make, and Share Maps

• What is a GIS?
• Components of a GIS
• GIS in your organization
• GIS workflow
• Create and publish a web map
• Demo
• Exercise: Create and publish a map service and make a web map in ArcGIS Online

Integrating Data

• Properties of geographic data
• Layers and native data
• Data supported by ArcGIS
• Importance of coordinate systems (SG, UCS, datum, projections, and distortions)
• Create a geodatabase (Feature dataset, domain and subtype, topology)
• Geodatabase versioning
• Geometric network construction
• Demo
• Exercise: Integrate and organize GIS data

Managing Layers

• Properties and configuration of the GIS framework Data
• Controlling the visibility of elements (scale ranges, definition queries)
• Selection tools
• Creating predefined display areas
• Demo
• Exercise: Using layers to create optimal map display

Displaying Data

• Using and properties of symbols
• Style manager
• Displaying categorical data
• Displaying quantitative data
• Types of attributes
• Demo
• Exercise: Classifying data

Working with Tabular Data

• Integrating and working with tables
• Setting up and calculating fields
• Demo
• Exercise A: Creating and importing tables and their attributes
• Exercise B: Joining and relating tables

Creating and Editing Data

• Editing GIS data
• What types of data can I edit?
• The ArcMap editing workflow
• Creating and modifying geometries, attributes, and schemas
• Demo
• Exercise: Creating and updating elements of an editing map to display data

Labeling Elements

• What is labeling?
• The labeling workflow
• Labeling options in ArcGIS
• Maplex vs standard engine
• Creating labels using Maplex and/or standard engine
• Annotations
• Demo
• Exercise: Labeling map elements

Creating Map Presentations

• Creating a map layout
• Working with and configuring map elements
• Data frame, title, north, scale bar, grid, legend, corner, and others
• Demo
• Exercise: Create a Map Layout

Evaluate Data for Analysis

• Evaluate data quality
• Errors in GIS data
• Currentness and credibility
• Integrity
• Consistency
• Accuracy
• Aligning geographic data
• Discovering errors
• Demo
• Exercise: Analyze data quality

Solving Spatial Problems

• What are geographic spatial problems?
• Using Geoprocessing Tools for Analysis
• ArcToolbox Window
• Buffer, Clip, Intersect, Union, Merge, Spatial join.
• The Spatial Analysis Workflow
• Demo
• Exercise: Apply the Analysis Process

Sharing Geographic Information

• Build geoprocessing models using Model Builder
• Sharing geographic information
• Define a method for sharing information
• Sharing a geoprocessing package
• Demo
• Exercise A: Build and run a model using Model Builder
• Exercise B: Publish and share geographic content

Summary and Next Steps