Getting Know ArcGIS Desktop

Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop







Authors Tim Ormsby, Eileen J. Napoleon, Robert Burke, Carolyn Groessl, Laura Bowden

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Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop introduces principles of GIS as it teaches the mechanics of using ESRI’s leading technology. Key concepts are combined with detailed illustrations and step-by-step exercises to acquaint readers with the building blocks of ArcGIS® Desktop including ArcMap™, for displaying and querying maps, ArcCatalog™, for organizing geographic data, and ModelBuilder™, for diagramming and processing solutions to complex spatial analysis problems. Its broad scope, simple style, and practical orientation make this book an ideal classroom text and an excellent resource for those learning GIS on their own. A data CD for working through the exercises and a fully functioning 180-day trial ArcGIS® Desktop 10 software is included.

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About the Author

Tim Ormsby works in product development at ESRI.

Eileen Napoleon is an educational specialist at ESRI.

Robert Burke is a senior instructor and technical writer at ESRI.

Carolyn Groessl was a technical writer for ESRI Press.

Laura Bowden currently works in GIS education at ESRI.

# Paperback: 592 pages
# Publisher: ESRI Press; Second Edition, for ArcGIS 10 edition (August 1, 2010)
# Language: English

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Reviews


This book is great for beginners. It is especially written for novice users, and it includes software. If you're wanting to get started in GIS, this book is extremely helpful and detailed. It explains almost every single keyboard move that you would make. You can learn on your own and at your own pace, regardless of your computer literacy. This book is 592 pages of ArcGIS tutorials. If you like tutorials, then this is the book for you. These tutorials will walk you through anything you would ever want to do with ArcGIS, in painful detail. I was new to ArcGIS before reading this book, it's a complex and powerful program.

my backgroung is in the mechanical field (UniGraphics and AutoCAD). Our department staf has been reduced due to the econemy so our CAD group started picking up the GIS work. It takes a bit of time to grasp the consept and the interface of GIS.This manual has been a grate tool to help me find out some of tricks to make learning this program easier. The book is geared for most people who have a working knowlage of this program. It is very well illustrated and is easy to follow for the beginer or even mid-level users.