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Overview
ArcGIS software offers many tools for visualizing, creating, managing, and analyzing geographic data. In this course, students extend their ArcGIS skills in the areas of cartography, data automation and editing, and geoprocessing and spatial analysis. Students work with advanced cartographic tools as they learn how to efficiently create effective maps. A major focus of the course is the geodatabase. Students learn database design considerations and techniques for creating, maintaining, and managing GIS data stored in a geodatabase. The ArcGIS geoprocessing tools for spatial analysis are also covered and, in a course project, students apply many of their newly acquired skills.
Audience
Introduction
to ArcGIS II is designed
for those with
fundamental knowledge
of ArcGIS and
geographic information
systems in general,
and who are
also planning
to work with
King County GIS
Data.
In addition to standard ESRI course materials, this course will
feature the following:
- King
County Spatial
Data Catalog
- King County
GIS Data Dictionary.
- Real-time
access to
King County
GIS data during
class.
Goals
- Classify and symbolize data.
- Create custom symbols, labels, and annotation.
- Work with map templates.
- Geocode addresses.
- List database design considerations.
- Create and edit metadata.
- Create a geodatabase and add data to it.
- Set and use geodatabase validation rules.
- Create and edit features using a variety of ArcMap editing tools.
- Describe components of a model.
- Perform geoprocessing operations using tools, the Command Line window, and ModelBuilder.
Topics
Covered
- Spatial analysis and data management: Buffers; Spatial overlays; Extracting features for analysis; Analytical methods and tools.
- Geocoding and display of locations from tabular data: Address geocoding; Display of points from x,y coordinates.
- Editing: Tools for creating and editing spatial data; Editing attribute data; Spatial adjustment.
- Data automation: Data sources; Digitizing; Data conversion.
- Project management: Database organization; File and directory naming conventions; Creating and using metadata.
- Geoprocessing: Introduction to the Command Line window and the ModelBuilder interface.
- Cartography: Advanced symbology and labeling.
Prerequisites
and recommendations
Students should have completed Introduction to ArcGIS I or Learning ArcGIS Desktop or have equivalent knowledge.
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