The GIS 20: Essential Skills / Edition 2

by Gina Clemmer

Overview

GIS is your tool, not your career. How can you quickly begin applying GIS in your work?

The GIS 20: Essential Skills, third edition, presents step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and practical tips on how to perform the top 20 skills needed to successfully use a geographic information system (GIS). These skills include finding and editing data, querying GIS maps, creating reports, and sharing and publishing maps.

The e-book of The GIS 20: Essential Skills, 9781589485136, $49.99, is available at most online book retailers. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589483224
Publisher:	Esri Press
Publication date:	08/29/2013
Series:	The GIS 20
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	165
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Gina Clemmer is the president of New Urban Research, Inc., a research and training company in Portland, Oregon. She has spent the better part of the last decade training thousands of new GIS users across the country. The company’s most popular workshop, Mapping Your Community: An Introduction to GIS and Community Analysis, has been taken by more than 15,000 working professionals. Clemmer holds a masters degree in urban planning from the Universityof Iowa. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband.

Table of Contents

A note to the reader
Introduction
Chapter 1: Downloading shapefiles and using essential ArcMap tools
Chapter 2: Creating basic maps and layouts
Chapter 3: Projecting shapefiles
Chapter 4: Preparing data for ArcMap
Chapter 5: Joining data to maps
Chapter 6: Creating thematic maps
Chapter 7: Working with data tables
Chapter 8: Address mapping
Chapter 9: Creating a categorical map
Chapter 10: GPS point mapping
Chapter 11: Editing
Chapter 12: Creating attribute queries
Chapter 13: Creating location queries
Chapter 14: Using geoprocessing tools
Chapter 15: Creating geodatabases
Chapter 16: Joining boundaries
Chapter 17: Working with aerial photography
Chapter 18: Creating reports
Chapter 19: Sharing work
Chapter 20: Publishing maps
Thanks
Source credits
Index