Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility

UW-Madison
LICGF/SIAC
GIS Training Workshops

Learning GIS Using ArcGIS

Course Fee: $750

This two-day ESRI authorized course is a foundation course for understanding GIS, how you can use it and how others are using it. At the completion of this course students will be able to define the basic functions of GIS, understand map projections and coordinate systems, to create and find geographic data and understand how it is made. They will also be able to do simple geospatial analysis tasks such as querying a spatial database and create a map layout.

Course syllabus

• Introduction
• The big picture of GIS
• GIS Maps
• GIS Power: Map meets database
• Creating a map layout
• Pinning down the geographic data
• Geography meets geometry
• Geographic data: A bird's eye view
• Querying data: Asking question getting answers
• Analyzing spatial relationships
• Solving problems with GIS
• Course conclusion

Note:

This class is intended for new users of GIS and ArcGIS. The class will focus mostly on GIS principals and is intended to prepare students for Introduction to ArcGIS 1.