ArcGIS 2: Essential Workflows (10.3) Class Resources

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This is a 3-day course that focuses on the essential ArcGIS workflows, tools, and techniques of ArcGIS for Desktop. It builds on the basic concepts taught in ArcGIS 1: Introduction to GIS. This course teaches the workflows to discover, use, make, and share maps and geographic data. Skills developed during the course include: Working with features and attributes, creating and modifying data, making maps, using tools and data to answer questions and solve spatial problems, and sharing geographic information. The resources below are organized according to the lessons taught on each day and at the end are sections with More resources and More Esri links.

1. Introduction and Lessons 1, 2, 3, 4

• Help topic
  • Publishing a map service
  • A quick tour of map layers
  • Adding layers to a map
  • About geographic data formats
  • Adding data from ArcGIS Online
  • Adding CAD data to a map
  • Types of geodatabases
  • Geodatabase functionality in ArcGIS for Desktop Basic
  • A quick tour of creating and editing metadata
  • Creating item descriptions
  • Working with map scales
  • Displaying a subset of features in a layer
  • Changing a layer's drawing order
  • Working with group layers
  • Working with basemap layers
  • Creating a basemap layer
  • Building a query expression
  • Drawing a layer using a single symbol
  • Drawing a layer using categories
  • Data classification
  • Using graduated colors
  • Using graduated symbols
  • About symbolizing layers to represent quantity
  • Drawing features to show quantity by category
• Tutorial
  • Building a geodatabase
    • Exercise 1: Organizing your data in the Catalog
    • Exercise 2: Importing data into your geodatabase

2. Lessons 5, 6, 7, 8

• Help topic
  • A quick tour of tables and attribute information
  • Tabular data sources
  • Defining tables
  • Defining fields in tables
  • ArcGIS field data types
  • About joining and relating tables
  • Essentials of joining tables
  • Essentials of relating tables
  • About joining the attributes of features by their location
  • What is editing (subtopics include: Methods for creating data, Workflow for creating features in ArcMap, Creating points, Creating lines and polygons, Editing attributes, Editing existing features, etc.)
  • A quick tour of editing (subtopics include: Editor toolbar, Create Features window, Template Properties dialog box, Attributes Window, Edit Sketch Properties window, etc.)
  • About editing attributes
  • Understanding how to edit values in a table
  • Editing attributes in the Attributes window
  • Essential labeling concepts
  • Working with the Standard Label Engine
  • A quick tour of the Labeling toolbar
  • Using the Label Manager
  • Using label classes to label features from the same Building
  • Building label expressions
  • A quick tour of Python
  • What is a page layout?
  • What are Data Driven Pages?
  • Exporting your map
  • Building map books with ArcGIS
• Tutorial
  • Editing tutorial
    • Exercise 1: Getting started with creating features
    • Exercise 2: Creating and editing features
• Esri Press
  • Designing Better Maps : A Guide for GIS Users

3. Lessons 9, 10, 11

• Help topic
  • About map projections
  • Projection types
  • Choosing an appropriate transformation
  • Understanding conflict resolution and generalization
  • What is geoprocessing?
  • A quick tour of geoprocessing
  • An introduction to the commonly used GIS tools
  • An overview of the Analysis toolbox
  • Proximity analysis
  • Overlay analysis
  • A quick tour of finding tools
  • A quick tour of executing tools
  • What is ModelBuilder?
  • A quick tour of ModelBuilder
  • A quick tour of sharing geoprocessing workflows
  • What is a geoprocessing package?
  • Using a geoprocessing package
  • Saving layers and layer packages
  • Publishing a map service
  • A quick tour of publishing a geoprocessing service
  • Common reasons for using map services
  • Creating a map package
• Tutorial
  • Executing tools in ModelBuilder
  • Creating tools with ModelBuilder
• Blog article
  • About geographic transformations and how to choose the right one
  • When to use the Define Projection tool and the Project tool?
• Esri web course
  • Solving Spatial Problems Using ArcGIS, 10.2
  • Building Models for GIS Analysis Using ArcGIS, 10.2

4. More resources

• ArcGIS 1: Introduction to GIS (10.3) Class Resources
• Help topic
  • About configuring the user interface
  • Essential layer display vocabulary
  • Essential readings about the geodatabase
  • Essential table and attribute information vocabulary
  • Table basics
  • Describing items from the Catalog window
  • A quick tour of creating and editing metadata
  • SQL reference for query expressions used in ArcGIS
  • Understanding how to use Microsoft Excel files in ArcGIS
  • Formatting a table in Microsoft Excel for use in ArcGIS
  • Essential raster data vocabulary
  • About adding new text to a map
  • Essential labeling vocabulary
  • Working with the Standard Label Engine
  • A quick tour of labeling with the Maplex Label Engine
  • About adding new text to a map
  • Introduction to arcpy.mapping
  • Getting started with arcpy.mapping tutorial
• video.esri.com
  • Learning Essential GIS Workflows
  • Using Imagery and Raster Data in ArcGIS
  • Types of Geodatabases: Which One is Right for Me?
  • Migrating Data to the Geodatabase
  • Editing in ArcMap: An Introduction
  • Editing Tips and Tricks
  • Efficient and Effective Labeling with ArcGIS
• Esri website
  • Esri Mapping Center (Other Resources > Cartographer's Favorites > ColorBrewer2 and TypeBrewer)
• Esri blog
  • Choosing the Best ArcGIS Online Basemap for Your Maps and Apps
  • Three Tips for GIS Content Sharing
• Esri Press
  • The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1: Geographic Patterns and Relationships, 2001
  • Map Use: Reading  Analysis Interpretation, Seventh Edition, 2011
  • Lining Up Data in ArcGIS: A Guide to Map Projections, Second Edition, 2013
  • GIS Tutorial for Python Scripting, 2014
• 2014 Esri User Conference Technical Workshops
  • Best Practices for Map Design (Available as PDF or PPT)
  • Best Practices for Designing Effective Map Services (Available as PDF or PPT)
  • ArcMap Tips and Tricks (Available as PDF or PPT)
  • Working with Metadata in ArcGIS (Available as PDF or PPT)
• Esri web course
  • Creating and Editing Metadata in ArcGIS
  • Introduction to Geoprocessing Scripts Using Python
  • Python for Everyone
• Esri Instructor-Led course
  • ArcGIS 3: Performing Analysis
  • Editing Data with ArcGIS for Desktop
  • Designing Maps with ArcGIS

5. More Esri links

• Esri.com – Esri’s primary web site
• Training – Gateway for instructor-led and virtual training
• ArcGIS Ideas – Your chance to submit your ideas and help make ArcGIS better
• ArcGIS Resources – ArcGIS software resources, user communities, blogs, videos and more
• Help – Help for ArcGIS 10.3 and older versions, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, Server, Portal
• Esri Support – Esri’s online support center
• ArcGIS Online – Esri's cloud-based platform that allows an organization’s members to use, create, and share maps, scenes, apps, and data, and access basemaps and ready-to-use apps
• Esri mapping – Esri’s mapping center is here to help you make great maps
• GIS Dictionary – Definitions for GIS terms
• ArcGIS for Home Use – Get the latest ArcGIS version plus extensions for your personal use
• GeoNet – Esri’s online community for sharing, chatting, and collaborating on all things geo