ArcView GIS software is designed to bring desktop mapping to the masses (the average PC user). ArcView was designed for those people who do not regularly use GIS, but need access to spatial information for decision-making. The main advantage of using ArcView is the easy to learn user interface. After learning the basics of ArcView, you will be able to query spatial information and create thematic maps to aid in natural and cultural resource management. Although ArcView is "easy" to use, due to its Graphical User Interface (GUI), you must know how to change directories, copy, and remove files in your operating system. That is why it is very important for you to be able to use the Unity environment. With more than 500,000 users worldwide, ArcView GIS is the world's most popular desktop mapping and GIS software. It puts hundreds of mapping and spatial analysis capabilities at your fingertips.

Create Maps Showing Your Data

ArcView GIS makes it easy to create maps and add your own data to them. Using ArcView GIS software's powerful visualization tools, you can access records from existing databases and display them on maps.

Integrate Data in Powerful New Ways

ArcView GIS makes it easy to integrate data from all over your organization and work with the data geographically. Get more from your investment in data by using the data in new ways.

See the Big Picture

In no time you will be working with your data geographically: seeing patterns you could not see before, revealing hidden trends and distributions, and gaining new insights. What will you see when you map your data with ArcView GIS?

Solve Real-World Problems

Working geographically enables you to understand relationships between the forces that drive your business so you will make better decisions and get the power you need to solve problems faster.

Present Your Work

Presenting your results and ideas is easy with ArcView GIS. You can make great-looking publication-quality maps and create interactive displays by linking charts, tables, drawings, photographs, and other files. You will find that communicating geographically is a powerful way to inform and motivate others.

Course Description

This course, provides a conceptual overview and hands-on experience using the software, giving you the background knowledge to quickly take advantage of ArcView's powerful display and query capabilities. In this two-day course, you will learn basic ArcView functionality. Participants become familiar with the ArcView user interface and use ArcView to create, edit, display, query and analyze geographic and tabular data and create presentation maps and charts.

Topics Covered

• Product overview: Capabilities and applications

• ArcView GIS graphic user interface (GUI): Interacting with the application window and its components; using online help

• ArcView projects and documents: How projects organize, manage and store ArcView documents (view, tables, charts and layouts)

• ArcView views and themes: Creating views and themes to display both raster and vector geographic data

• Creating and editing themes: Using ArcView shapefiles to create and edit shape themes

• Spatial query and analysis: Selecting features based on relationships between multiple themes; merging theme features and attributes

• ArcView tables: Creating an ArcView table from a variety of tabular data sources; selecting from a table; joining multiple tables; modifying table structure; editing table values

• ArcView charts: Creating a chart for presenting and analyzing tabular data

• ArcView layouts: Combining views, tables, charts and images, as well as north arrows, logos and scale bars, to create a final map.

Duration: 6 days - 3 Hrs a day