Overview
This
two-day course provides
a conceptual overview and
hands-on experience using
ArcView 3.x software. It
teaches basic ArcView functionality
and enables participants
to quickly take advantage
of the software's powerful
display and analysis capabilities.
Attendees 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
Introduction
to ArcView 3.x is for
those who are new to ArcView
3.x software and
are planning to work with
King County GIS data.
In
addition to standard
ESRI course materials,
this course will feature
the following:
- King
County Spatial Data
Catalog and the King County GIS Data Dictionary
- Real-time
access to King County
GIS data during class
No
prior knowledge of ArcView
3.x or GIS is required.
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.
Prerequisites
and Recommendations
Introduction
to ArcView 3.x is for
those with little or no
desktop mapping experience.
However, registrants should
know how to use windowing
software. |
