Those completing this course will be able to

• List common GIS tasks and identify which ArcGIS Desktop application is used for each task.
• Understand what the geodatabase offers for GIS data storage.
• Create and edit geodatabase features.
• Control the appearance and display of data layers in ArcMap.
• Classify and symbolize map data.
• Label map features.
• Change the coordinate system and map projection used to display a dataset.
• Access feature information in tables and control table display properties.
• Query and analyze GIS data.
• Build a simple model to automate a GIS analysis workflow.
• Create presentation-quality maps and graphs.

• Investigating geographic data including how it is stored (Raster & Vector), data formats, managing data in ArcCatalog and viewing data in ArcMap.
• Managing map layers and navigating in a map (zooming, bookmarks and scale).
• Symbolizing categorical data, types of symbols, choosing symbols, creating symbols.
• Symbolizing quantitative data: symbology options, and classification methods.
• Labeling map features and annotation basics
• Coordinate systems and map projections
• Making a Map: Layouts, adding map elements (Legends, North Arrows, Scales and so on)
• Basic data editing techniques for spatial and attribute data
• Managing data tables including joins and relates between two or more tables
• Creating a geodatabase and feature classes
• Geocoding addresses or x,y coordinates
• Common analysis operations such as queries, clipping data, buffering and overlaying data
• Customizing the ArcGIS interface