Course Overview

Through a combination of tutor led teaching and hands-on exercises the course aims to give users confidence to use the power of the latest version of ArcGIS Pro to present, manipulate and analyse information geographically, in order to be able to make more informed decisions, share information effectively ... and produce great looking maps!

Software

Prerequisites

• • Delegates must be confident in the use of the Windows operating system functions such as copying, deleting & moving files, navigating to a file or folder, use of Mouse and Keyboard.

Course Content

• Introduction to GIS

  Introduction to GIS
  Basic GIS concepts
  Coordinate systems
  Data types and possible sources
  Introduction to arcgis
  The arcgis Pro environment

• Getting Your Bearings

  Getting started with ArcGIS Pro
  Toolbars, ribbons and panes
  Contents pane
  Catalog pane
  Navigating the map
  Adding data to the map
  Layouts
  Table of attributes
  Saving your work

• Interacting with the Map

  Map tools
  Measure tools
  Snapping control
  Bookmarks
  Basic selecting features
  Selection options
  Selection functions

• Working with Map Layers

  Types of layer
  Setting scale dependency
  Data sources and repair of broken links
  Setting basic symbology
  Symbology with categories/quantities
  Classification methods
  Saving and importing symbology
  Adding labels and text to the map
  

• Layouts

  Add a layout to your project
  Navigating the layout
  Adding layout elements
  Working with multiple map frames
  Extent indicators
  Layout templates
  Exporting/sharing your layout

• Selections and Queries

  Selecting features by attributes
  Building an expression
  Selection features by location
  Working with selections
  Definition query
  Creating buffers

• Mapping Existing Data

  Creating points from x,y values
  Using Microsoft excel data
  Joining data using common attribute
  Setting up spatial join
  Postcode geocoding/address locators
  

• Creating and Editing Data

  Getting started with editing
  Creating new datasets (shapefile or gdb)
  Feature class design
  Constructing new features
  Using tracing
  Using snapping
  Modifying existing features
  Adding and modifying attributes
  Field calculator
  Saving edits

Included with this course

• • Comprehensive course materials and exercises