Mapping California - GIS Workshops - Community Analysis
Mapping California Communities:
An Introduction to GIS and Community Analysis
Note: These are one day classes from 8:30 - 4:30. Students choose which one day to attend.
San Francisco: Sept 4th & 5th, 2008 - ExecuTrain - 101 Spear St./One Rincon Ctr San Francisco, CA
San Diego: Aug 26th, 2008 - San Diego Training & Conf Ctr 350 10th Ave. Ste 950 San Diego, CA
San Jose: Sept 25th, 2008 - ExecuTrain 2005 De La Cruz Blvd, Ste 200 Santa Clara, CA
Fresno: October 3rd, 2008 - Heald College Fresno 255 W Bullard Ave Fresno, CA
Irvine: September 9th, 2008 QuickStart Training Ctr 16815 Von Karman Ave, Ste 100, Irvine, CA
Los Angeles: Sept 11th & 12th, 2008 - ExecuTrain - 9841 Airport Blvd, Ste 524 Los Angeles, CA
Sacramento: Sept 18th & 19th, 2008 - ExecuTrain - 1860 Howe Ave., Ste 250 Sacramento, CA
These workshops are customized for each city in which they are taught.
- Audience: Beginners, anyone interested in mapping their community
- Registration Fee: $495 (Credit Cards, Checks, Purchase Orders Accepted)
Breakfast Included
Workshop Overview
Participants will learn to use ArcGIS 9.3 to do the following:
Creating thematic maps
Participants will learn how to easily create
thematic maps of their own data and display
spatial trends in information.
Address mapping (geocoding)
Participants will learn to map addresses of their
clients, their projects or incidents.
Download and Map Census & American Community Survey data
Participants will learn to extract and map current Census data such as poverty, race, language, population,
transportation, education and workforce characteristics.
Participants will also learn to:
Conduct spatial queries
Download free shapefiles
Create well designed maps
- Mapping techniques transferable to all other communities.
- Exercises are designed for beginners.
- Intermediate Excel skills required.
Workshop Materials
- Comprehensive workbook (75 pages), which includes the presentation, exercises and reference worksheets,
- ArcGIS (ArcView 9.3) software 60-day trial CD set,
- Thirty day free access to new 2005 Tiger/Line geography files (converted to shapefiles) which include streets, zip codes, school districts, voting districts, census tracts and many other useful geographies
- Thirty day free access to our Analyzing Your Community: Local Demographic Analysis Online Workshop
Workshop Agenda
Lesson 1
Learn the basic functions of ArcGIS
Setting up ArcMap
Adding data and geography layers
Working with Layouts
Lesson 2
Introduction to American Factfinder
Downloading Census and American Community Survey data to map
Downloading free geography files including tracts, zip codes, blocks and several others
Preparing Census tract data in Excel to import into ArcGIS
Lesson 3
Joining data and geography files
Creating thematic (color shaded) maps to display data
Working with legends and interval breaks
Lesson 4
How to do common spatial queries
Lesson 5
Where to download free business addresses
Geocoding (address mapping)
Lesson 6
Elements of good maps including colors, fonts and map must haves
Critique of several maps
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