Learn GIS basics and how to use ArcGIS 9! These workshop materials are useful for people who have no prior GIS experience, but would like to become familiar with GIS concepts and basic techniques.

The central goal of this workshop is to provide participants with the skills to manipulate GIS maps to answer commonly asked issues in community planning. Activities focus on the use of ArcGIS 9 to get information from GIS data layers, answer basic geospatial questions and manipulate attribute data.

The workshop materials consist of the workshop manual (PDF), the presentations (PPT) and the data folders and files.

The manual contains the following sections:

     1. Introduction to GIS Data
     2. Tour of ArcMap
     3. Finding Areas of Interest
     4. Attribute Tables
     5. Getting Information from a GIS
     6. Keeping Your GIS Current
     7. Creating Simple Maps
     8. Advanced Topic: Building a GIS
     9. Advanced Topic: Customizing ArcMap
     10. Advanced Topic: Selecting Areas of Interest
     11. Advanced Topic: Related Area Calculations