Introduction to ArcView 3.x

Begin your ArcView 3.x training with this conceptual overview and hands-on experience. This two day course teaches basic ArcView functionality and enables participants to quickly take advantage of the software?s display and analysis capabilities. Participants are introduced to the ArcView GUI and use ArcView to create, edit, display, query, and analyze geographic and tabular data and create presentation-quality maps and charts.

Audience

This course is designed for those who are new to ArcView 3.x software and to GIS in general.

Goals

Display data in a view
Create and edit data
Query a database
Perform geocoding
Create maps for presentation

Topics covered

Capabilities and applications; Interacting with the ArcView GUI; Projects and documents; Using ArcView online help, ArcView views and themes: Creating views to display geographic data (themes); Creating themes from x,y coordinates; Setting a view's map projection; Manipulating the symbology and classification scheme for each theme; Labeling themes, ArcView tables: Creating an ArcView table from a variety of tabular data sources; Selecting from a table; Joining and linking multiple tables; Modifying the structure of a table; Editing values in a table; Creating a chart for presenting tabular data, Creating and editing themes: Using ArcView to create shapefiles; Adding and editing shapefile features; Updating attribute information; Geocoding street addresses, Spatial query and analysis: Selecting features based on relationships between multiple themes; Merging theme features, ArcView layouts: Creating a final map for presentation and printing; Combining views, tables, charts, images, north arrows, logos, and scale bars to create a final map.

More detailed information about course content is available upon request.

Prerequisites and recommendations

This course is for those with little or no desktop mapping experience; however, participants should know how to use windowing software. Those who want to learn about Avenue programming language should attend this course followed by one of the introductory Avenue courses. Introduction to Avenue is for nonprogrammers and Programming with Avenue is for those with programming experience.

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