Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop reflects new functionality in ArcGIS 10

REDLANDS, CALIF. — Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop from Esri Press is a fundamental geographic information system (GIS) workbook that introduces the underlying principles of GIS within the context of a structured ArcGIS lesson plan.

Originally published in 2001, the workbook has now been updated to ensure ArcGIS 10 compatibility. Written by a team of technical and education specialists including Tim Ormsby, Eileen J. Napoleon, Robert Burke, Carolyn Groessl, and Laura Bowden, Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop is a hands-on guide for classroom lab work or on-the-job training.

Key GIS concepts are combined with detailed illustrations and step-by-step exercises to acquaint readers with the building blocks of ArcGIS Desktop, including creating effective maps, understanding spatial analysis, and building and editing spatial databases.

Lessons are presented within the context of real-world projects and teach symbolizing and labeling maps, classifying data, querying maps, analyzing spatial relationships, setting map projections, building spatial databases, editing data, geocoding addresses, and making map layouts.

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