BASIC
DESKTOP MAPPING
Description.
The technology
of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has been extensively applied by many
organizations during the past decade to support spatial planning and decision-making
at various levels and for different purposes. This can be utilized as spatial
decision-support tool in general especially in developing a land-use plan
and for the management and monitoring of natural resources in particular.
Objectives. This
training hopes to introduce the concept of desktop mapping through GIS using
the ARCVIEW software. Specifically this training will:
* introduce the fundamental geo-information system concepts
as
represented by the basic methods and techniques
of the ARCVIEW
software package;
* assist the participants in creating, editing, displaying,
querying and
analyzing geographic and tabular data and guide
participants in
creating presentation maps and charts using
ARCVIEW software.
Methodology. This
three-day seminar will make use of substantial input sessions, presentations,
discussion and hands-on exercises.
Who should attend.
This course assumes
that participants has no previous knowledge of desktop mapping or GIS technology,
however, participants should know how to work with windowing software.
Outline
* Overview
on GIS Concepts and Desktop Mapping
* Overview
of ARCVIEW GIS: Capabilities and applications
* ARCVIEW
GIS projects and documents: How projects organize,
manage and store ARCVIEW GIS documents
(views, tables, charts
and layouts)
* ARCVIEW
GIS on-line help system: Using on-line help, hypertext
jumps and context-sensitive help
* ARCVIEW
GIS views and themes: Creating views and themes to display
geographic data, manipulating the table of
contents to
create the symbology and classification
scheme for each theme.
* Creating
and editing themes: Using ARCVIEW GIS shapefiles to
create and edit shape themes, adding and editing
features,
creating themes from a file of x,y coordinate
locations
* Spatial
query and analysis: Selecting features based on
relationships between multiple themes,
merging theme features
and attributes for analysis
* Spatial
query and analysis: Selecting features based on
relationships between multiple themes, merging
theme features
and attributes for analysis
* ARCVIEW
GIS Tables: Creating an ARCVIEW GIS table from a
variety of tabular data sources, selecting
from a table, joining
multiple tables, modifying the structure of
a table, and editing
values in a table.
* ARCVIEW
GIS Charts: Creating a chart for presenting tabular data, techniques
for changing the look of a chart
* ARCVIEW
GIS Layouts: Creating a final map for presentation and printing;
combining views, tables, charts, and images, as well as
north arrows, logos and scale bars, to
create a final map
Duration: 24 hours
