GIS Education Center
1400 Evans Avenue
San Francisco, Ca 94124
Latitude: -122° 23' 6"
Longitude: 37° 44' 27"
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Dates: June 2, 4, 9, 11, and 16
Time: Tuesday/Thursday evenings 6-9pm
Location: Mission Campus, fourth floor - Room 475 (1125 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110)
Course #: TM106 Enroll Now
Cost: $125/115 
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 three 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. These skills may be applicable for entry-level GIS positions or internships.
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)
• 1 year student copy of ArcGIS 9.3 with Extensions software DVD
• Access to the CCSF lab during the semester
• Certificate of Completion
Prerequisites
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
No textbook is required for this workshop. However, 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
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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