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Real-World GIS

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Overview

Get practical solutions to real-world GIS challenges.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Need help with your GIS projects?
  • What you should know
1. Got GIS Data?
  • Where is the GIS data?
  • How to consider the scale of GIS data
  • What spatial data are already in ArcGIS?
  • How to get local and state GIS data
  • How to get the USA national map data
  • How to get census GIS data
  • How to get Earth Explorer data
  • How to bring hosted GIS data into ArcGIS
  • Challenge: Get GIS data for a specific geography
  • Solution: Get GIS data for a specific geography
2. What Can Be Done with GIS Data?
  • Understanding GIS data types
  • Mastering vector GIS data
  • Mastering raster GIS data
  • How to choose the right GIS data formats for Projects
  • Challenge: Vectorization vs. rasterization
  • Solution: Vectorization vs. rasterization
3. What Is Up with Projections?
  • How to understand the latitude, longitude, and scale
  • What is a developable surface?
  • Using geoids, spheroids, and datums in GIS
  • Mastering projections in GIS
  • Challenge: On-the-fly projection vs. project
  • Solution: On-the-fly projection vs. project
4. How to Collect GIS Data in the Field?
  • Geospatial data collection basics
  • How to create a spatial database from coordinates
  • How to add scanned map data and drone imagery to a spatial database
  • How to collect GIS data using ArcGIS Survey123
  • Challenge: Georeference master
  • Solution: Georeference master
5. How to Master ArcGIS Online?
  • What is ArcGIS Online?
  • How to bring data into ArcGIS Online
  • How to build web maps from ArcGIS Pro
  • How to make an online mapping application
  • Challenge: Make an online mapping application
  • Solution: Make an online mapping application
6. How to Build a GIS Project from Scratch?
  • Challenge: Get the GIS data
  • Solution: Get the GIS data
  • Challenge: Visualize the GIS data
  • Solution: Visualize the GIS data
  • Challenge: GIS attribute data exploration
  • Solution: GIS attribute data exploration
  • Challenge: Isolate the GIS data
  • Solution: Isolate the GIS data
  • Challenge: Construct new GIS data
  • Solution: Construct new GIS data
  • Challenge: Analyze the GIS data
  • Solution: Analyze the GIS data
  • Challenge: Import GIS data into a geodatabase
  • Solution: Import GIS data into a geodatabase
  • Challenge: Convert GIS data
  • Solution: Convert GIS data
  • Challenge: Make a web map
  • Solution: Make a web map
  • Challenge: Make an online mapping application
  • Solution: Make an online mapping application
7. How to Land a GIS job?
  • What are the different types of GIS jobs?
  • Where can you find GIS jobs?
  • How can you master the GIS job interview? Part 1
  • How can you master the GIS job interview? Part 2
Conclusion
  • What are your next steps in GIS?

Taught by

Jason VanHorn

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