ArcGis for beginners

Explore the three vector layer formats: shape file format, personal geo database, and file geo database, and compare their structure, data protection, and suitability for different project sizes.

Create thematic layers to store geographic graphics using a catalog app, then create shapefiles for point, line, and polygon, and configure coordinate systems and set projections.

Create a personal geodatabase with a feature dataset for points of interest, define subtypes and codes, and attach a domain to museum for structured geo data.

Learn how to create baseline data in ArcGIS by digitizing points and polygons, inputting fields like name and administrative status, and symbolizing and classifying features by region, capital, and districts.

Master ArcGIS editor and advanced editing to draw and edit points, lines, and polygons on an image, using trimming, splitting, contracting points, exploding multipart features, flipping vertices, merging, and buffering.

Learn to filter features on a map or chart using a definition query, displaying only specified types such as autonomous republic centers or cities.

Learn to edit and manage an attribute table in ArcGIS for beginners, including adding fields, setting data types, adjusting decimals, hiding fields, and performing basic statistics.

Learn how to load data from one attribute column to another in ArcGIS by importing layers into a geodatabase, configuring the coordinate system, and transferring the name field.

Learn how to join an Excel table to a thematic ArcGis layer using a common unique field, then use the field calculator to transfer data and remove the join.

Learn two methods to clip a raster in ArcGis for beginners: clip by polygon or by drawing a graphic rectangle, then export the clipped raster as tif.

Learn to convert a polygon layer to a line layer with the data management tool using feature to line, then export to region_line folder with underscores to avoid hyphen errors.

learn how to delete single or multiple fields in ArcGIS using the data management tools, including selecting delete field and hiding fields via layer properties.

Explore creating a live hillshade from a relief digital model in ArcGIS, adjusting transparency and color ramps to smooth pixels with linear interpolation.

explains how to build aspect using a digital elevation model, uses the spatial analyst tool to create an aspect map, and adjusts color classes, transparency, and direction labeling.

Learn to create relief slope maps in ArcGIS for beginners using the surface and slope tools, apply a color ramp, and set transparency for relief shading.

Explore selection types in ArcGIS, including select by polygon, free-form line, circle, and line, and learn to add to or remove from selections with shift.

Learn to use select by attributes in ArcGIS, build queries across fields with and/or, and view results in the attribute table.

Learn select by location in ArcGIS for beginners by choosing source and target layers, selecting features inside a highlighted polygon, and applying within methods while managing selections with attribute options.

Register a topographic map to a coordinate grid, input x and y control points, and rectify the raster to save a properly aligned georeferenced map.

Georeference a Google Earth satellite image in ArcGIS for beginners by assigning a Mercator projection, placing four control points with x and y coordinates, and saving as a shapefile.

Georeference a downloaded map by linking a country outline shape file to map coordinates using the control point tool and edge snapping, then digitize for further use.

Create a map by setting layout and landscape, symbolize regions with a color ramp, label settlements with label classes and the label engine, and include scales and a legend.