Skills Tutorials
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the Basics
Mapping Data
Analyzing Data
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The skills tutorials aim to introduce GIS and geospatial learners to the range of activities performed by GIS analysts across multiple platforms and software. Most of the skills tutorials assume some familiarity with the geographic or cartographic concepts employed by each tool, based on the context of the work.
For learners: The tutorials explain how to perform a particular task or operation using specific software or on a given platform, usually with a quick example.
For teachers: The tutorials are designed to readily plug into any exercise, assignment, or other instructional materials. They are written with hope of wide applicability, whether your students are GIS-ing for the Earth sciences, public health, or social sciences. Their URLs are permanent, and the content is reviewed and updated—so, your teaching materials stay current even as software changes.
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FAQs & Other Help
Software FAQs. A list of common questions with links to relevant tutorials.
Working with Attributes. See a categorized list of tutorials related to working with attribute tables, including a growing collection of tutorials to help write field calculations.
Finding Data. See a list of tutorials on downloading datasets from various common sources here.
Basics
Beginners! Start here with beginner-friendly sequences to help you jump into GIS software.
Getting Started
Set Up & Export a Basic Map
Mapping Data
Skills tutorials focused on visualizing and examining geospatial data. Topics include queries and selections, map projections and CRS, symbology and classification, basic webmapping, and others.
Queries & Selections
Projections & Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS)
Vector Symbology & Classification
Raster Symbology & Classification
Basic Webmapping with Leaflet
Analyzing Data
Software resources for executing geoprocessing operations and other functions to support spatial analysis. Topics include basic vector and raster geoprocessing, spatial statistics, remote sensing, network analysis, and more.
Vector Geoprocessing
Raster Geoprocessing
Spatial Statistics
Network Analysis
Remote Sensing
Making Data
The Making Data tutorials cover skills to create GIS datasets from scratch and working with different data types. These include georeferencing, digitizing, and geocoding; creating new geometry from existing data; and converting between data types.
