Greetings,
We are gearing up for our annual Local ESRI Users group meeting next March. Our group is geared with an emphasis towards Electric Distribution with attention to Transmission.
We are splitting our group into 2 tracts this time around. Basic and Intermediate/Advanced. 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.
To that end I am looking for topic ideas for presentation for the Beginner Tract.
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.
Things like
How to make custom symbols
What are the differences between shape files, databases, MXD, MDB, Layer files etc.
How to set up labels and annotation
etc.
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
