Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop Tutorial

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Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop Tutorial
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What isGetting to Know ArcGIS Desktop
Tutorial?

• The latest software workbook from ESRI
• A practical book that teaches how to use the
  software through exercises and color graphics

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• The tutorial does not cover features unique to
  ArcEditor or ArcInfo,
• However, since they all have the same interface,
  the book is an introduction to all of the three.
• It comes with two CDs
• One has a fully functional copy of ArcView 8 that
  expires 180 days after you install it
• The other has exercise data

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• You need to install both
• The tutorial is not a GIS textbook
• Contains 2 introductory chapters and 17 exercise
  chapters (total 19)
• Chapter 1 explains some GIS concepts
• Chapter 2 Introduces the ArcGIS system
• Each of the remaining 17 chapters contains 2 to 4
  exercises

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• Many tasks are covered
• Symbolizing and labeling maps
• Classifying data and querying maps
• Analyzing spatial relationships
• Setting map projections
• Building spatial databases
• Editing data and making map layouts

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• Includes an on-line exercise using Geography
  Network, a web site on the Internet to bring
  from maps and data to ArcView (Exercise 4 of Chap
  18)
• It is estimated that it will take 1 to 2 hours to
  complete a chapter
• Estimated time (17 Chap x (1 to 2 hrs) per Chap)
  17 to 34 hrs