#INTRODUCTION
GIS is becoming an increasingly important tool in environmental management, retail, military, police, tourism and many other spheres of our daily lives. If you use a computer or a cell phone, you have probably already used a GIS in some form without even realising it. Maybe it was a map on a web site, Google Earth, an information booth or your cell phone telling you where you are.
#TRAINING OBJECTIVES
- Use online resources to quickly create a GIS map.
- Describe two common data models used to represent real-world objects and phenomena in a GIS.
- Evaluate geographic data for use in a GIS mapping project.
- Explore a GIS map and access information about map features.
- Visually analyze feature relationships and patterns on a GIS map.
- Create queries to find and select features that meet specific criteria.
- Prepare a GIS map to share information and present analysis results.
#KEY TAKEWAYS
- How a GIS works
- What can you do with a GIS?
- Discover, use, make, share
- Introducing an online GIS
- Vector geometries
- Vector information
- Raster basics
- Data storage
- Metadata
- Layers
- Scale
- Moving around a map
- Data and layout view
- Info tools and attributes
- Attribute query basics
- Location query basics
- Creating queries
#KEY TAKEAWAYS
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