Introduction to ArcView (3.x)

Two days

Overview

Begin your ArcView 3.x training with this conceptual overview and hands-on experience. This 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 for those who are new to ArcView 3.x software and to GIS in general.

Prerequisites and recommendations

This course is for those with little or no desktop mapping experience; however, participants should know how to use windowing software.

Goals

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

Topics covered

ArcView overview: 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

• ArcView GIS basics
  • What is ArcView GIS?
  • Exploring the ArcView interface
  • Exercise: An ArcView GIS sampler
• Getting data into ArcView
  • Creating views and themes
  • Exercise: Add themes to a view
  • Referencing views to the real world
  • Exercise: Set view properties
• Displaying themes
  • Thematic mapping with the Legend Editor
  • Choosing a classification method
  • Modifying legend elements
  • Exercise: Use the Legend Editor
  • Managing theme display with Theme Properties
  • Exercise: Set theme display properties
• Working with tables
  • Using ArcView tables
  • Exercise: Add and edit tables
  • Querying tables
  • Exercise: Select and summarize records
  • Building relationships between tables
  • Exercise: Join and link tables
  • Creating charts from tables
  • Exercise: Create a chart
• Creating and editing shapefiles
  • Working with shapefiles
  • Creating a new shapefile
  • Editing shapefiles
  • Create and edit shapefiles
• Querying and analyzing themes
  • Analyzing spatial relationships
  • Exercise: Use theme-on-theme selection
  • Performing spatial join and spatial merge
  • Exercise: Join and merge spatial data
• Geocoding addresses
  • What is address geocoding?
  • Exercise: Address geocoding
• Creating layouts
  • What is a layout?
  • Defining frames
  • Adding graphics
  • Printing a layout
  • Exercise: Create a map layout