The GIS 20: Essential Skills / Edition 3

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:	9781589485129
Publisher:	Esri Press
Publication date:	01/22/2018
Series:	GIS 20 Series
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	12 - 10 Years

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 University of 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