ArcGIS Desktop Introduction

Course Overview

This two-day ArcGIS training course is aimed at those who are new to the ArcGIS Desktop software (or to GIS), or those at a novice level. Through a combination of tutor led teaching and hands-on exercises it aims to give users confidence to use the power of GIS and ArcGIS to display, manipulate and analyse information geographically, with the result that they are able to make more informed decisions.

Day 1 covers basic data manipulation and presentation - it will show you how to use and create Map Documents and Layers in ArcMap, and how to make best use of the Catalog. You will also learn different ways of interacting with features on the map, how to define and save symbols for features, and how to present data in a layout.

Day 2 covers basic data analysis, editing and importing - it will show you how to write a query to select specific features; how to bring in data from an external source such as Excel; how to set up an attribute join to visualise such data on the map; how to create shapefiles and geodatabases; how to edit existing map features and create new ones using the edit toolbar.

Prerequisites

• • The course is based on the ArcGIS Desktop Basic licence without extensions.
  • 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

• DAY 1

  Introduction to GIS
  Basic GIS concepts
  Coordinate systems
  Data types and possible sources
  Introduction to ArcGIS
  ESRI data formats
  Getting Your Bearings
  Getting started with ArcMap
  Menus and toolbars
  Accessing help
  Using the Catalog
  Table of contents
  Map navigation tools
  Data views & layout views
  Layer files and map documents
  Layer properties
  Interacting with the Map
  Map Tools - Identify, HTML PopUp, Find
  Measure Tool
  Spatial Bookmarks
  Select Features Tool
  Working with Map Layers
  Types of layer
  Setting scale dependency
  Data sources and repair of broken links
  Setting symbology
  Symbology with categories
  Symbology with quantities
  Saving and importing symbology
  Adding labels and text to the map
  Presenting Your Data
  Introduction to the layout view
  Layout toolbar
  Changing layout style
  Adding layout components
  Using data frame properties
  Adding an extent indicator
  Previewing, printing & exporting
  Layout templates
  
  

• DAY 2

  DAY 2
  Selections and Queries
  Selecting features by attributes
  Selection features by location
  Creating selection layers
  Selection context menu
  Mapping Existing Data
  Creating points from x,y values
  Coordinate transformations
  Joining and relating tables
  Working with Excel data
  Postcode geocoding
  Creating and Editing Data
  introduction to editing
  Feature templates
  Editing toolbar
  Constructing features
  Snapping
  Modifying features
  Creating a new shapefile
  Working with Attributes
  Sorting and reordering
  Adding new attribute fields
  Field calculator (basics)
  Summary statistics
  Spatial join
  Exporting data
  

Included with this course

• • Comprehensive course materials and exercises