This teaching tool is designed with both self-study users and classroom users in mind, offering nine steps for learning ArcView GIS software that have been developed and tested at the GIS labs at Carnegie Mellon University. This hands-on approach simulates how a GIS project would be developed, covering map design, GIS outputs, importing spatial and data attributes, digitizing, address matching, spatial data processing, and spatial analysis. A companion CD-ROM includes additional exercises for each tutorial chapter provides and integrative cases that cut across chapters. The book also includes a full working copy of ArcView GIS software (good for 180 days from the date of installation) and all of the sample data required to run the exercises.
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Wilpen Gorr is a professor of public policy and management information systems at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a principal investigator for the National Institute of Justice, working to develop crime mapping and analysis applications for police. He is founder of InfoLink, a school-to-work program for inner-city high school students that emphasizes GIS and CAD study. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Kristen S. Kurland is an associate teaching professor at the Heinz School and School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book to use in a GIS class,
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This review is from: GIS Tutorial: Workbook for ArcView 9.0 (GIS Tutorial series) (Spiral-bound)
I use this book (as a teacher) in a GIS class at a community college. It has that rare mix of step-by-step directions and challenging, thought provoking exercises. Each chapter starts with a tutorial that is well explained and thought out. Interspersed are "Your Turn" exercise that allow students to flex their muscles a bit. The directions are easy to follow, with color screen shots and explanations.
At the end of each chapter is a set of 2 exercises. Students are given an assignment, provided with a few hints, and then need to use what they learned in the tutorial to complete the exercise. This allows students to do some thinking on their own, which many other ArcGIS software books neglect. In my years of experience as a teacher and from using this book in class, I can say that the exercises are what make this book stand out. The authors provide great support for teachers using this book. There is an instructor's CD with assignment answers and grading sheets. Included are 2 Case Studies that I assign as homework. They even provide slides for use in lectures! The authors have also been quick to respond to any questions, comments, or suggestions from me and my students. I would recommend this book to any instructor using ArcGIS. Unless you hate Pittsburgh (some of the exercises use Pittsburgh data) I think you will like this book.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A fine primer, but flawed,
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This review is from: GIS Tutorial: Workbook for ArcView 9.0 (GIS Tutorial series) (Spiral-bound)
If you're looking for a step-by-step-hold-your-hand-guide to ArcView then this is your book. However ...and this is a big However... you'd better learn each lesson thoroughly as you go along, because there is no index. Let me repeat... no index. Oh, sure there's pages and pages of ESRI software license agreement, but no index. That being said, it is a fine reference and a good place to learn the basics.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Students learn how to use ArcView 9 to create maps, collect, collate and analyze data, and more,
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This review is from: GIS Tutorial: Workbook for ArcView 9.0 (GIS Tutorial series) (Spiral-bound)
For a workbook for ArcView 9, Wilpen Gorr and Kristen Kurland's GIS Tutorial is the perfect item of choice. It pairs a 180-day trial version of ArcView 9 on CD-ROM and data with exercises which require learners to perfom basic GIS tasks without step-by-step instruction - requiring both thought and a real ability to understand ArcView rather than routine memorization. Students learn how to use ArcView 9 to create maps, collect, collate and analyze data, and more. Many a teacher will make this a course text.
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This first tutorial will make you familiar with some of the basic functionality of ArcMapTM and illustrate the fundamentals of GIS. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
layout view, outline color, selected records, outline width, address locators, input features, line data, label features, fill color, color ramp, compact database, data frame properties, mapping software, spatial adjustment, existing map radio button, zip document, output feature class, rematch criteria, spatially join, new personal geodatabase, counties layer, block centroids, new shapefile, output shapefile, address locator Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Click File, Click View, Click the Add Data, Exercise Assignment, Spatial Analysis Tutorial, Join Intersection, Open Attribute Table, United States, Right-click the Population, Map Design Tutorial, Full Extent, Add Field, All Programs, Start Editing, Layer Properties, Desktop Help, New York, Click Editor, Hamburg Hall, Click the Symbology, Analysis Tools, Click Selection, Unique Values, Outputs Tutorial, Introduction Tutoriall Browse Sample Pages:
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This first tutorial will make you familiar with some of the basic functionality of ArcMapTM and illustrate the fundamentals of GIS. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
layout view, outline color, selected records, outline width, address locators, input features, line data, label features, fill color, color ramp, compact database, data frame properties, mapping software, spatial adjustment, existing map radio button, zip document, output feature class, rematch criteria, spatially join, new personal geodatabase, counties layer, block centroids, new shapefile, output shapefile, address locator Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Click File, Click View, Click the Add Data, Exercise Assignment, Spatial Analysis Tutorial, Join Intersection, Open Attribute Table, United States, Right-click the Population, Map Design Tutorial, Full Extent, Add Field, All Programs, Start Editing, Layer Properties, Desktop Help, New York, Click Editor, Hamburg Hall, Click the Symbology, Analysis Tools, Click Selection, Unique Values, Outputs Tutorial, Introduction Tutoriall Browse Sample Pages:
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