Skidmore College GIS Center Help Topic Index

 

Please contribute to our growing index of GIS Tutorials! This site is maintained by the Skidmore College GIS Center employees, and by students currently enrolled in ID-210, Introduction to GIS.

 

Click here

 

to learn how to add your tutorial to our pbwiki Help Topic Index.

 

To request a tutorial, please email Alex

with the tutorial request, your name, and the date requested. 

 

 

 

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Check out these upcoming GIS courses!

 

 Skidmore College GIS Course Listing 

  

Spring 2010

CS-361: Economic Geography

Full 

 

Summer 2010

ID-210: Introduction to GIS

TU/W/TH 1-30:30 PM

Harder 101

 

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Utilizing Data Sources

 

The following tutorials all contain instructions for downloading data; some contain instructions on  how to map the data.

• Using 2008 Land Use Data - Retrieving, Displaying.
• Shuttle Radar Topography Mission 90 Meter (SRTM 90 Meter) - Downloading, Mosaic-ing and Mapping.
• United Nations Human Development Research Data - Downloading.
• U.S. Census Data - Downloading and Mapping
• USGS Topography Maps (Digital Raster Graphics - DRG) - Downloading.

 

Tutorials To Be Created:

 

*Please see the GIS Center Data Sources Link for access to downloadable, online data. 

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ArcMap Processes

 

• Adding Picture Hyperlinks to an ArcMap Point

• Creating a Fading Animation

• Delineating a Watershed

• Georeferencing an Image

 

Tutorials To Be Created:

 

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GPS60 Processes

 

The following tutorials have been created for use with a Garmin GPS 60. GPS units can be signed out for use from the GIS Center in Dana 169 off the Dana Atrium.

 

• Creating and Navigating to a Waypoint on GPS60.

 

Tutorials To Be Created:

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Other GIS Program Processes

 

Tutorials To Be Created: