GIS 20: Essential Skills

The GIS 20: Essential Skills presents step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and practical tips on how to perform the top twenty 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 your maps. The second edition offers nine bonus topics to further advance your skills, exercise data on the accompanying DVD, and ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop software (180-day use) to work through the exercises.

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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

About bonus exercises

Bonus 1:  Understanding common file types

Bonus 2:  Advanced labeling

Bonus 3:  Creating custom symbology

Bonus 4:  Exporting to KML format

Bonus 5:  Esri Maps for Microsoft Office

Bonus 6:  Metadata

Bonus 7:  Working with multiple data frames

Bonus 8:  Enabling time

Bonus 9:  Creating map books

A note to the reader

Data and image source credits

Data license agreement

Index