The GIS 20 : essential skills / Gina Clemmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clemmer, Gina, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geographic information systems.

ArcGIS.

Physical Description:

xiii, 140 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Redlands, Calif. : ESRI Press, 2010.

Summary:

The GIS 20 is a no-nonsense workbook that demonstrates how to perform twenty essential GIS skills as indicated by 500 GIS practitioners. Written for professionals with no time for classroom training, this book can be treated as a weekly self-assignment or an as-needed reference. Each chapter offers a handy checklist of basic functions and steps covered in the text, as well as executive level summaries of how the functions are commonly applied for different types of analysis. If you are a GIS beginner, The GIS 20: Essential Skills is your best friend.

Contents:

Creating a reference map : working with layers, symbology, labels, layouts, saving

Creating well-designed layouts : color, font, map flow, legends, sources

Projecting shapefiles

Preparing data for ArcGIS : preparing Excel files, working with census data

Joining data to maps

Creating a thematic map : thematic mapping, constructing a legend, color shading

Working with attribute tables : adding/deleting columns, editing values, calculations

Address mapping

Creating a categorical cap : categorical mapping of polygons and points

GPS point mapping

Editing boundaries : changing boundaries, merging multiple geographies into one, merging multiple shapefiles into one, clipping, custom selections

Joining boundaries : spatial joining

Aerial photography

Digitizing paper maps : making a digital image, drawing polygon and line boundaries by hand

Attribute queries

Location queries

Creating reports

Creating buffers

Publishing maps : ArcGIS Explorer, geoenabled PDFs, creating map books

Creating geodatabases.

ISBN:

9781589482562

1589482565

OCLC:

468979717

Publisher Number:

99941134924