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This course is only for employees of the City and County of San Francisco.

Provided by:

 City and County of
San Francisco Enterprise GIS (SFGIS)

City and County of San Francisco Enterprise GIS (SFGIS)

Instructor: Mono Simeone
Dates: January 20, 27, Feb. 3, 10, 17

Time: 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm on Wednesday afternoons

Location: Downtown Campus, Fifth floor - Room 515c (88 4th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103)

 

Registration

To be placed on the enrollment list contact, Robin Earle ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )

 

Provide the following information:

• Your name

• City department name

• Email address

• Telephone

 

Important Notes

• Seats are limited and are first-come-first-serve & Only 20 slots are available; however you may be placed on the wait-list.

• Wait-listed students can attend the first class in case a slot opens up; however, there is only enough material for 20 students.

• In-class labs may require additional time out-side of class to complete. Therefore, it is highly suggest that students request a 60-day evaluation from ESRI which can be installed on a personal computer or department workstation with permission.

• A student with access to ArcGIS Desktop in their office will need ArcGIS Desktop version 9.3 or higher to use the course material.

• The recommended book, Getting To Know ArcGIS, comes with a 180-day evaluation trial of ArcGIS Desktop 9.3.

 

 
Overview
The introduction workshop is designed for students with little or no GIS skills and for those interested in gaining basic knowledge of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Students will learn the foundation of desktop GIS by exploring concepts and techniques using state-of-the-art and widely used ESRI’s ArcGIS 9.3.
 
Students will learn how to use the applications to solve questions such as:
• Find all sex offenders within 2000 feet of schools
• Where is the best location to open a new store?
• Identify census tracks with high income and high home ownership
• Display the number of accidents at each intersection by direction
• Where might disease spread too?
 
The workshop will help students gain confidence in creating maps by utilizing the tools and learned techniques. The five week workshop will focus on the following:
• Understanding the setup of a GIS project
• Understanding GIS file formats
• spatial queries
• symbology
• Basic editing techniques
• Creating new datasets
 
At completion of this workshop a student should expect to be able to work comfortably with GIS project files, join tabular/spreadsheet data with spatial layers, create new spatial layers using queries and geoprocessing tools, symbolize map features, and publish a map.
 
 
Workshop Includes
• Hands on lab time and opportunities to work one-on-one with the instructor
• Customized hard copy labs and data
• 1 year access to ESRI's Virtual Campus course, Learning ArcGIS 9 ($185 value)
• Access to the CCSF lab during the semester 
• Certificate of Completion or note of attendance
 
 

Prerequisites
No GIS skills are required. However, students should have a basic knowledge of Microsoft Windows operating system. This includes opening/closing windows, navigating directories and subdirectories, saving information, creating files and folders, and downloading files. Familiarity with Microsoft Excel and zip files are recommended but not necessary.

 

 

Organization
The structure of each class will generally consist of a short lecture followed by 2 - 2.5 hours of hands-on lab time and a short break halfway through the class period. Homework assignments, quizzes, and readings are distributed in order to reinforce GIS concepts and techniques.

 
Recommended Textbook & Hardware
It is recommended students purchase Getting to Know ArcGIS 9. The book should be used as a self-study resource for reviewing fundamental ArcGIS concepts and tools. The textbook provides an excellent foundation and is also recommended in many of our other GIS workshops. This book is not available in our Campus bookstore.
 
Getting to Know ArcGIS 9, Second Edition Updadated for 9.3
By Robert Burke
Available through: Amazon | Borders

 

Make sure your copy comes with an evaluation cd. (Note: be wary when ordering from online retailers as evaluation CD's may be faulty or not included).
 
Flash Drive
Not all lab/exercise data is available online as GIS files can be large. It is recommended you bring a  1GB or greater flash drive.
 
 
Bringing your own personal computer to class?
Students are welcome to bring their personal computers into class to work on assignments. You will need a USB flash drive for saving files and transferring them to the personal computer. GIS data files can be large, so media with at least 1 GB of capacity are recommended.  Some web-based services such as YouSendIt.com and TransferBigFiles.com provide free transfer of single files up to a certain size, usually 1 GB.  Multiple data files can be consolidated into a single ZIP file prior to transfer.  Notification of successful transfers arrive via email.

Required Software
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint
 
Mac users
ArcGIS is not distributed for Mac's, you must have: BootCamp, SWSoft's Parallels, or VMware Fusion.
 
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