GIS Workshops

Our GIS workshops are designed for social service providers, researchers, planners or anyone that performs community analysis. We teach both workshops in all major cities and the demographics workshop is offered both live and as a part of our web workshops. Please click on the links below to find out specific information about each workshop.

Mapping Your Community: An Introduction to GIS and Community Analysis (Print General Flyer)

Upcoming GIS Workshops

Mapping Oregon Communities

Mapping Missouri/Kansas Communities

Mapping North Carolina Communities

Mapping Indiana Communities

Mapping Maryland/DC Communities

Mapping Washington Communities

Mapping Tennessee Communities

Mapping Kentucky Communities

Mapping South Carolina Communities

Mapping Vermont Communities


Past GIS Workshops


Mapping DC Area Communities

Mapping Maine Communities

Mapping Arkansas Communities

Mapping Michigan Communities

Mapping Nevada Communities

Mapping Idaho Communities

Mapping Indiana Communities

Mapping Maryland Communities

Mapping Colorado Communities

Mapping Oklahoma Communities

Mapping Pennsylvania Communities

Mapping Alabama Communities

Mapping Louisiana Communities

Mapping Ohio Communities

Mapping Iowa Communities

Mapping Arkansas Communities

Mapping Arizona Communities

Mapping New York Communities

Mapping Illinois Communities

Mapping Georgia Communities

Mapping Texas Communities

 


Workshop Overview

Participants will learn to use ArcGIS 9.3.1 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 9.3.1) software 60-day trial CD set

    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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