K12 Quick Start
K-12 Quick Start is a collection of introductory exercises that touches upon many basic principles in GIS particularly using ESRI's ArcView 3.x. Users are able to explore these principles using real world data in such examples as investigating Africa, Earthquakes in Canada and languages in Ontario.
Purpose:You are going to familiarize yourself with some of the tools ArcView uses to control your map display
New GIS Skills:
- Opening a View Document
- Turning Themes On and Off
- Changing Theme Draw Order
- Panning / Zooming
- Using the Identify Tool
- Labeling Map Features
- Creating a Layout Document
- Setting View Properties
- Setting Theme Properties
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- Creating a Thematic Map
- Performing a Spatial Query
- Calculating Statistics
- Creating a Graduated Symbol Map
- Creating an Unique Value Map
- Calculating New Attribute Values
- Performing an Attribute Query
- Creating new Shapefiles
- Loading pre-defined Chart Legends
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Before you begin this lesson you will need to download the data that is used throughout the exercise. The dataset for this lesson is available in .ZIP or .EXE format. Using the .EXE file, the data will be extracted to the correct folder when you double-click the downloaded file to execute it. If you are unable to download the .EXE file due to your network or service provider's security measures, download the .ZIP file and be sure to extract the data to the folder indicated in the lesson instructions. If you cannot download either of the files available here, contact your system administrator. If you have any questions, send an e-mail to K-12@esricanada.com.
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