Institution: Southern Oregon University -- Ashland, Oregon

Date: Fall 2001; Eight hours per day

Text: Introduction to ArcView Course Material, (provided)

 DESCRIPTION

Introduction to ArcView GIS is the fast track to learning ArcView GIS software. By giving a conceptual overview and hands-on experience using the software, this two-day course enables participants to quickly take advantage of ArcView's powerful display and analysis capabilities.

The course teaches basic ArcView functionality. Participants become familiar with the ArcView graphical user interface (GUI) and use ArcView to create, edit, display, query, and analyze geographic and tabular data and create presentation maps and charts.

 TOPICS COVERED 

1. Product overview: Capabilities and applications
2. ArcView GIS graphical user interface (GUI): Interacting with the application window and its components.
3. ArcView projects and documents: How projects organize, manage, and store ArcView documents (views, tables, charts, and layouts)
4. ArcView's online help system: Using online help; hypertext jumps, context-sensitive type, and online tutorial
5. ArcView views and themes: Creating views and themes to display geographic data; manipulating the Table of Contents to create the symbology and classification scheme for each theme
6. Creating and editing themes: Using ArcView shapefiles to create and edit shape themes; adding and editing features; creating themes from a file of X & Y coordinate locations
7. Spatial query and analysis: Selecting features based on relationships between multiple themes; merging theme features and attributes for analysis
8. ArcView tables: Creating an ArcView table from a variety of tabular data sources; selecting from a table; joining multiple tables, modifying the structure of a table, and editing values in a table
9. ArcView charts: Creating a chart for presenting tabular data; techniques for changing the look of a chart
10. ArcView layouts: Creating a final map for presentation and printing; combining views, tables, charts, and images, as well as north arrows, logos, and scale bars to create a final map
11. Geocoding: Locating a file of address on a map; setting address formats; address-matching and editing technique

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