Explore the world of spatial analysis and cartography with geographic information systems (GIS). In this class you will learn the basics of the industry’s leading software tool, ArcGIS, during four week-long modules: Week 1: Learn how GIS grew from paper maps to the globally integrated electronic software packages of today. You will install ArcGIS on your computer and learn how to use online help to answer technical questions. Week 2: Open up ArcGIS and explore data using ArcMap. Learn the foundational concepts of GIS, how to analyze data, and make your first map. Week 3: Make your own maps! Symbolize data and create an eye-catching final product. Week 4: Share your data and maps and learn to store and organize your data. Take Fundamentals of GIS as a standalone course or as part of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialization. By completing the first class in the Specialization you will gain the skills needed to succeed in the full program. Students who need an ArcGIS license will receive a non-commercial, 1 year student license for participation in this course and specialization.
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Del curso dictado por University of California, Davis
Fundamentals of GIS
2071 calificaciones
University of California, Davis
2071 calificaciones
Curso 1 de 5 en SpecializationGeographic Information Systems (GIS)
De la lección
Course Introduction and Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
In this module, we will cover course expectations, give you a quick overview of GIS and what's great about it, take a first look at ArcGIS and identify key elements in the interface, and define core geospatial concepts and terminology. In Section 2, we will discuss options for desktop GIS, the history of GIS and how it's used today, discuss resources and help that you can use, and lay out core skills that are relevant to you as a GIS analyst. We'll close out by showing you how to get a copy of ArcGIS for this course, and with a tutorial on getting started in ArcGIS.
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Nick SantosGeospatial Applications Researcher
Center for Watershed Sciences
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In this demo we're going to take a brief look at the interface of ArcMap,
one of the pieces of software that make up ArcGIS.
Before we open it up I want you to think for
a moment about what you expect a GIS software package to be like.
What do you imagine interfacing with it is like?
Do you type in commands,
are you drawing things on screen, is it like using Google maps?
How do you interface with it for analyzing your data,
for viewing your data, for showing it to others?
ArcMap uses a lot of different interface paradigms.
Some of them you're going to be really used to, and
some of them are going to be brand new.
And that's the point of this screencast here, is to show you
which of those you'll be familiar with and where to explore for the rest of it.
I'm running Windows 10, so to launch it, I can bring up my start menu,
and it's going to look a little different than what you're used to.
But if I bring up my start menu and click all apps, once our GIS is installed,
I'll see it in an ArcGIS subfolder under A.
And I can start up ArcMap 10.3 from here.
I could also type it in the search box here, and it should come up there.
And that'll work on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.
ArcGIS takes a little while to launch depending on your computer.
This is a decent computer that I'm on right now, and it usually takes it about
a minute, and it will go through three phases, the initializing license,
initializing application, and initializing document phase or loading document phase.
And depending upon your environment and where you license is coming from
it can take anywhere from 15 seconds to a minute or a couple of minutes.
So don't be worried if it takes a little while to load.
Once it loads up we get this getting started dialogue that shows up, and
it shows us templates.
We can create map templates, and we'll potentially go over that later.
But the thing I want you to notice here is this default Go Database option.
This is where ArcGIS, by default, stores data that you're working with,
any products that you're creating by default with go there.
And you can specify that for the map document right off the bat.
Open a new map document from here.
I can click cancel and I'll still get a blank map document, or
I can click okay once I have a template selected, and
it'll use that template to create a new map for me.
In this case since it's a blank map anyway I'm going to accept the default
geo database and click okay.
Right off the bat,
first things I would notice as a new user are that there's a menu bar up here.
You're probably familiar with menu bars from many other applications.
They're starting to disappear in newer software packages,
including in ArcGIS Pro you don't have this as much.
But the classic example would be Microsoft Office has a ribbon interface.
ArcMap still has kind of that classic interface where you have
a menu bar with a file menu.
And then you have these toolbars up here that
I can rearrange by grabbing this little control and moving it to where I want.
And they have all these little icons that do different things.
Some of these are going to be brand new and very specific to ArcGIS and
some of the them are going to be super familiar like the save,
the print, the open, and the new, or tools.
So, the rest of this interface, though, is pretty specific to ArcGIS.
I encourage you, when you first open ArcGIS to explore these menus for yourself
and see what's in there, because that's going to be a way that you'll start
figuring out pieces of the software that maybe we don't cover in this course or
that we don't cover in-depth in the area that you're interested in and
to explore the tool bars, too.
Before we do that in this demo, I want to quickly go over the rest of the interface.
ArcGIS is mostly composed of things that we call panes.
So over here we have the table of contents pane or window.
We can bring these up under the windows menu in here so
if I lost the table of contents pane by clicking X and getting rid of it, I
can go back to windows and click table of contents and it's going to come back up.
I can also dock table of contents so
that it goes over to the side just like the catalog and search panes on the right.
And then it automatically disappears for me when I don't want it and
if I hover on it it comes back out when hovered.
And it will disappear again when I move my mouse off.
Or I can click on it to bring it back up and then pin it back down, just like it
was when we started, using that little pin at the top, the auto hide button.
I can change the size of panes by hovering over them and
dragging, and for those of you who really like to customize your interfaces or
who have different size monitors, you can click and
drag to pull the pane off of where it is now, and dock it to somewhere else.
And there are multiple options for this.
I'm not going to cover them all right now, but
the most common ones are to just dock it to another side.
And if I bring it over to this blue button here,
we'll dock it to the right side there just like catalog and search.
And if I auto-hide it here, it auto-hides to the right.
But if I wanted to get to join catalog and search though,
I can make those fly out and they're going to be right next to each other here.
And then, if I tear off table contents again and
bring it to the bottom of this window.
I can then attach it to the bottom there or I can make it another part
of this by dragging it again and hovering over the pane that I want it to be in.
And if I hold it over that center, there's that little icon there that looks
right at the bottom like it has tabs, and that's what they are.
If I attach it there I get a tab with table of contents, search,
and catalog over here, which if I pin them down, they all hide together and
if I bring them out, I get still just the one.
So I'm going to put Table of Contents back where it started because that tends to be
where I like it.
And I just tore off all three as you can see.
So I need to tear off Table of Contents using that bottom tab and
dock it back to the left.
We also, as you just saw, we have a search and a catalog pane.
Catalog is a full art catalog window.
ArcCatalog is a separate application and so
we are going to go through a lot of that later.
Know that there is a catalog window here.
I am going to hide it for now, and search.
Search gives us local search.
ArcGIS online search and enterprise search.
For now, we'll focus on local search, and
this is a way we can bring up tools or data once we have them on our machine.
The tools are built in, and data, as you start to build it,
ArcGIS is going to index it and let you search for it.
I'm going to hide that back again.
And let's take a quick look at some of the menus here.
What I tend to go looking for first thing when it opened up a new application
is I want to know what options the application has so
like ArcGIS has lots of different ways to customize applications in ways that your
auctions depending upon the context of what you doing, but the big one for
the full application itself is under.
The customized menu, intuitively enough, and then ArcMap options and
if I bring that up, I get this beefy dialogue full of different tabs.
A lot of the ones that you may find yourself wanting to adjust
right off the bat are on this first general tab.
One thing that gets a lot of new users is the mouse wheel and
continuous zoom pan tool.
I personally, or
by default ArcGIS when you roll your mouse wheel forward it zooms out.
I like it if it zooms in when I do that.
Some people like it when it zooms out and so you can set that yourself.
If I click apply it'll save those settings and leave the dialog open.
The other thing that we'll talk more about later is
the option to make relative paths to default from new mapped documents.
We'll talk more about what that when we define how mapped documents work and
what relative paths are in another lecture.
But for now, I'll check that box.
A few other tabs that you might want to check out on this bottom row
here And one that I like to set is enable hardware acceleration for
supported layers if you have a decent graphics card.
This is going to make certain types of layers dispel more quickly.
So I usually set that because this computer does have hardware acceleration.
And then another one to check out is metadata.
I'm not going to change anything here yet because when we get to
checking out our catalog, I want it to show you what it shows by default, but
note that there are different styles of metadata.
That is, the data that describes the process and the function and
the form of the data that we're loading and we can view it in different formats.
And a really common one is the FGDCCSDGM metadata.
Usually I select that as my metadata format.
We'll select that later on in this class but for
now we'll leave it as item description.
And I'm going to click okay, and that's going to save out my preferences and
bring me back to application.
So one thing I haven't talked about yet,
though, is this big white space in the middle here.
Probably given the amount of space given to it, the most important part of it.
What goes on in there?
That's where we view our data.
So, let's add some data know so we can take a look at it.
And if I click on this button here, I get some options for adding data.
I can add data directly from my computer, I can add a base map which is sort of like
Google Maps where You have premade tiles of map
information that are just cartographic, they just show you information.
You can't analyze them, but they provide context for
the rest of your data that you've added.
Or you can add data from ArcGIS online.
So I'm going to click Add Data.
And I'm going to bring in just a California counties layer that I have
in a geodatabase.
And we'll go through how to find these later, but
I'm going to bring in the counties layer.
Then I'll click add and our GIS knows how to draw this automatically.
And it gives it some colors and
some boundary line colors and styles immediately.
So that I can view it in this window here right off the path.
Notice what happen to when were in the table of contents though I
have a counties layer and there's a lot of interaction that we can do over here to
specify how we wanted to see our counties layer.
But the only one I'm going to show you right now is that I can turn off
the counties layer and make it disappear.
As we add more layers, that's going to be a very important function for
us to export data.
Right now I'm looking at the full extent of the California counties layer but
if I want to zoom in, I can use my scroll wheel and zoom in.
And it follows where my cursor's pointing and zooms toward it.
By default, you can change them in the options.
Or I can use the tools up in the tool bar, the zoom in and zoom out tools, and
I can click and drag to select the region that I want it to show on screen.
Similarly, I can zoom out by a certain amount, and by using the zoom out tool.
And then I can use the Hand tool, the Pan tool,
to drag the map around just like you're used to in things like Google Maps or
Bing Maps or whatever mapping service you use.
And if I want to go back to see all of the layers on the map
I can click Full Extent and it takes me back out.
One thing to note about that full extent tool, though, is if I have a base map
layer on, it's going to zoom me out effectively to the whole earth.
And, so, if you're showing a lot of data that your interested in, in a local area,
you're going to, instead, want to go, let's zoom back in for a moment, and
right click on the layer that maybe best represents your whole boundary, and
just do zoom to layer.
There are a lot of options in the right-click menu, right?
And so, that's another thing to note here, is,
a lot of things in ArcGIS appear in right-click menus.
So if you're wondering if you have more options somewhere,
try right-clicking on it and see what comes up.
We're going to go through Almost all of this at some point in this class, but for
now know that there's that menu and you should explore it.
To wrap up this interface tour I want to show you how to add more tools to your
view here.
So ArcGIS is based upon this tool bar model where
most of its functionality appears in these tools here.
There are a few other ways to access it that we'll show you later on.
But for now, know that if I right click in a blank space up at the top here,
I get a menu full of different tool bars.
A massive menu full of different tool bars I can add.
And you'll see the ones that we have upright checked.
We have Standard and Tools.
This first one on the left here, that's standard.
And this one here is tools.
So there is a lot of other functionality that's hiding in here.
And if you right-click and
bring up one of these toolbars you'll be able to add additional functionality.
Right away to your map document.
So if I select the draw toolbar here.
It pops up and it's floating.
I can drag it around, and just like the pane, I can dock it up here if I want to.
And so if I move it around, I'll be able to dock it.
And that way I have all my toolbars in one spot.
And the drawing toolbar does exactly what it says, it gives me the ability
to do things like creating rectangles in my view here or add text.
In practice you mostly want to do that when you are getting ready to export a map
for other people to use, but its one of the set of tools and its a toolbar.
To bring this all to a close, let's save our map document.
A map document is exactly what it sounds like.
Just like a Microsoft Office document, you're going to save it and the things
that you've done in here are going to be saved into one file that you can open and
share with other people.
The counties layer that I added, that's not contained in the map document.
The map document just references it where I loaded it from.
And so if I ship it off,
we'll need to do some special things that we'll go through in another lecture.
But only in this California counties and note that I used an underscore.
That is a personal preference these days, but
it is a legacy of when ArcGIS wasn't very good with spaces so,
you might make it a habit and find that things get a little easier if you do.
Save this type, ArcMap document in my ArcGIS folder,
which is part of my documents folder and if I click save,
I now have dot in the title bar and I can reopen it later if I want to.
That's it for this demo.
That's how you open ArcGIS create a new map document and
find the tools you need in order to do your analysis and explore your data.
Thanks and I'll see you in the next lecture.
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