The GIS 20: Essential Skills, 3rd Edition

How can you quickly begin applying GIS to your work?

The GIS 20: Essential Skills, third edition, presents step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and practical tips on how to perform the top 20 skills needed to successfully use a geographic information system (GIS). These skills include finding and editing data, querying GIS maps, creating reports, and sharing and publishing maps.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Downloading Shapefiles And Using Essential Arcmap Tools
Chapter 2 Creating Basic Maps And Layouts
Chapter 3 Projecting Shapefiles
Chapter 4 Preparing Data For Arcmap
Chapter 5 Joining Data To Maps
Chapter 6 Creating Thematic Maps
Chapter 7 Working With Data Tables
Chapter 8 Address Mapping
Chapter 9 Creating A Categorical Map
Chapter 10 Gps Point Mapping
Chapter 11 Editing
Chapter 12 Creating Attribute Queries
Chapter 13 Creating Location Queries
Chapter 14 Using Geoprocessing Tools
Chapter 15 Creating Geodatabases
Chapter 16 Joining Boundaries
Chapter 17 Working With Aerial Photography
Chapter 18 Creating Reports
Chapter 19 Sharing Work
Chapter 20 Publishing Maps