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Class• Class meets here 7:00 Tuesdays for

between 1 and 1.5 hours• A Lab immediately follows the class in

143 Baker• A second lab is Friday 2-5 in 143 Baker• The labs are essentially times when you

know you can reach me or Mr. Halligan• You are NOT required to attend any lab

and are free to attend either of them.

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How it works

• There are NO exams – useless in a course like this

• There are quizzes and the focus is on terminology and where “stuff” is located in the ArcGIS interface

• There are weekly assignments …

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Assignments

• Each week the following assignments are usually made– A module of the ESRI on-line course– The ESRI quiz results are turned in in class the

following week– A no-hands-held assignment by me that

reinforces the module material– The no-hands-held assignments are turned in 2

weeks later in class

• In this way the assignments for a specific week overlap

• ESRI on-line course

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Texts

• The main text is ESRI’s on-line course “Learning ArcGIS 9”

• I is free! (but you need a password)

• The other text is “Practical Vector GIS”. A reader from the Marshall Mall Copy Center ($10)

• A suggested text is “Getting to know ArcGIS” but make sure you get the edition for version 9!

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Password?

• I obtain the course passwords from SU and then email them to you with instructions for getting into ESRI’s Virtual Campus and accessing the course

• These passwords will be sent to the email address the Registrar gave me (usually a @syr.edu address) so it is important that you either use that address or forward mail to it to the address you do use.

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Doing the on-line course

• Method 1– You can do it by having two windows open on

the computer• ArcGIS• Web page with instructions

– You then flip back forth (and lose your place)• Method 2

– Copy and paste lesson/exercise into word– Print it – now you have a book– You put that next to the computer and check

off what you do (and don’t lose your place)

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Where are Assignments found?

• On the FOR557 schedule that can be accessed from the course web page – lets go there!

http://www.esf.edu/for/herrington/557/for557.htm

• The schedule is where you will also find:– Lecture topics and PowerPoints– Reading Assignments– Notes

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Where are the rules?• On the course web page in the Syllabushttp://www.esf.edu/for/herrington/557/details557.htm

• Course descriptions• Grading• Rules about handing stuff in• Etc.

Note: The only paper handed out in this class is a) Quizzes and b) Grade reports. Everything else is on the web!

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Please

• Read and check the web pages!http://www.esf.edu/for/herrington/– Course Information

• Details, details, details

– Schedule– Links

• My e-mail is lpherrin@esf.edu

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E-mail• Very important for this class• E-mail is the way to contact me• E-mail is the way to contact the course

HELP system• BUT – if matriculated, you MUST either

use your College assigned e-mail address OR have SU forward e-mail from that account to your private account that you usually use

• Not hard…

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Forwarding e-mail• If you don’t want to use your @syr.edu assigned to

you by the College then go tohttp://its.syr.edu/accounts/student.html

• Click on e-mail address registry• And you end up here…

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Forwarding e-mail• If you don’t want to use your @syr.edu assigned to

you by the College then go tohttp://its.syr.edu/accounts/student.html

• Click on e-mail address registry• And you end up here…

1.Click here

And you get this

2. Enter email address to which you want

mail forwarded

3. Click Submit!

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Easy

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Data Management

• Data for all exercises is available on the Baker Lab’s Server Academic1– The ERSI exercise data (also available from

the web at ESRI)– The data for my exercises

• Some of this data is large (megabytes)• So this raises the question “where do I

store my data?”• Media…

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Backing up is YOUR responsibility!

• First choice of media– 64 or 128 meg flash memory stick– These devices plug into USB ports

• 2nd choice of media– 250 meg Zip disk– NOT 100 meg and NOT 750 meg– 250 meg seems to be universal on

campus

The smart person has 2 of either of these! It is very easyto trash the contents of either one!

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Storage of Exercise Data

• Since Zip disks and flash memory sticks are relatively slow the best solution is…

• Get in the habit of running exercises from a workspace on C:\ and NOT from your backup storage device!

• Workspaces left on a cluster machine have about a 99.99% probability of not being there when your come back to the machine (assuming you remember exactly which machine you were using!)

• That means that you must copy workspaces from C:\ to your backup media and vice-versa.

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Trashing backup media?• Very easy to do!• XP (and other Win versions) store

what is to be written to a flash stick or Zip in a buffer.

• The buffer is written to the media when

a. The device is stopped (USB flash or zip)b. The Zip is properly ejected (Never eject

by pushing the eject button on the drive!)

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Trashing backup media?• Yup!• XP (an other versions) store what is

to be written to a flash stick or Zip in a buffer.

• The buffer is written to the media when

a. The device is stopped (USB flash or zip)b. The Zip is properly ejected (Never eject

by pushing the eject button on the drive!)

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ArcGIS

• ArcGIS has 3 license levels– ArcView– ArcEdit– ArcInfo

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•And every license level has 2 programs

ArcMap The main GIS software ArcCatalog A data management tool

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We will be using…

• ArcView 9.0• The lowest license level of ArcGIS• The same as ArcGIS but without the

full set of tools that the ArcInfo license level has.

• It is available to students for ~$250• At the end of the course we will also

be using ArcView 3.3 …

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ArcView 3.3

• An older system similar in some ways to ArcView 9

• Why?• Because you MAY run into it when

seeking a job and you will at least be able to say you have used it.

• You will have the basic skills anyway, they are just in a different place

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Extensions to ArcMap

• Allow even more capability in ArcView 9• Spatial Analyst – raster GIS• 3-D Analyst • GeoStatistical Analyst• Business Analyst• ArcPress – for making published map files• ArcIMS – Internet Map Server• And many others

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ESRI?

• ESRI is not the only company making GIS software. There are others– Intergraph MapInfo– Small World IDRISI

• So why is ESF fixated on ESRI products?– Defacto standard for many states

including NY.

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The Schedule

• The course schedule is kept up to date on the web

• Since this is almost a new course you can expect changes in the schedule as we work through it so don’t bother to print it!

• Where is it?

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Course Web Resources

• The schedule is the key to what is going on.

• PowerPoints, exercises, etc. can all be downloaded – we hand out very little paper! (quizzes).

• Notes – sources of information• Help at @Help557@rousmail

esf.edu

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The End