topic Topic Ideas for GIS 101 in Water Utilities Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/water-utilities-questions/topic-ideas-for-gis-101/m-p/714821#M1664 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Greetings,</P><P>We are gearing up for our annual Local ESRI Users group meeting next March.&nbsp; Our group is geared with an emphasis towards Electric Distribution with attention to Transmission.</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>We are splitting our group into 2 tracts this time around.&nbsp; Basic and Intermediate/Advanced.&nbsp; We have found that our attendees spread the range of user expertise and with one tract we are either beneath some or over their heads.</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>To that end I am looking for topic ideas for presentation for the Beginner Tract.</P><P>Unfortunately it is a sad truth in GIS that many electric utilities promote someone to GIS person who does not really have any idea of what they are utilizing.</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>Things like </P><P>How to make custom symbols</P><P>What are the differences between shape files, databases, MXD, MDB, Layer files etc.</P><P>How to set up labels and annotation </P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>etc.</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>Essentially I am looking for your input on what a GOOD basic topic would be for people that have little to no knowledge of ArcGIS</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 08 Sep 2014 15:18:02 GMT RobertBorchert 2014-09-08T15:18:02Z Topic Ideas for GIS 101 https://community.esri.com/t5/water-utilities-questions/topic-ideas-for-gis-101/m-p/714821#M1664 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Greetings,</P><P>We are gearing up for our annual Local ESRI Users group meeting next March.&nbsp; Our group is geared with an emphasis towards Electric Distribution with attention to Transmission.</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>We are splitting our group into 2 tracts this time around.&nbsp; Basic and Intermediate/Advanced.&nbsp; We have found that our attendees spread the range of user expertise and with one tract we are either beneath some or over their heads.</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>To that end I am looking for topic ideas for presentation for the Beginner Tract.</P><P>Unfortunately it is a sad truth in GIS that many electric utilities promote someone to GIS person who does not really have any idea of what they are utilizing.</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>Things like </P><P>How to make custom symbols</P><P>What are the differences between shape files, databases, MXD, MDB, Layer files etc.</P><P>How to set up labels and annotation </P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>etc.</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>Essentially I am looking for your input on what a GOOD basic topic would be for people that have little to no knowledge of ArcGIS</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 08 Sep 2014 15:18:02 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/water-utilities-questions/topic-ideas-for-gis-101/m-p/714821#M1664 RobertBorchert 2014-09-08T15:18:02Z