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Learn How to Use GIS in Your Instruction at the 2008 National Conference on Geography Education

The National Conference on Geography Education provides an excellent means of networking with over 600 colleagues at primary, secondary, and university levels, as well as those in government and industry. ESRI staff and some of our colleagues are teaching Read More...
Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 2:00 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Discovering the ArcGIS Desktop Resource Center

The new ESRI Resource Centers provide content, web help, and support for users of serveral ESRI tools, including ArcGIS Desktop. Content for ArcGIS includes maps, layers, globes, and globe layers. Much of this content is provided by ArcGIS Online as free Read More...
Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 2:04 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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KML in ArcGIS 9.3

The ability to export maps and layers to KML files is now built into ArcGIS Desktop 9.3 for all users at all license levels using the Layer To KML and Map To KML tools in ArcToolbox. Previously, these tools were only available with the 3D Analyst extension. Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 20, 2008 2:39 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Creating Spatially Enabled PDFs in ArcGIS 9.3, Part I

With the new ArcGIS 9.3 , you can create some fantastic spatially-enabled PDFs for use in the new Adobe Acrobat 9 family . Depending upon how you export your map documents in ArcGIS and the version of the Acrobat 9 you use, a variety of geospatial tools Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 13, 2008 2:37 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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Studying Landscape Changes at a Historical Battleground Using GIS: San Jacinto, Texas

I recently visited San Jacinto State Historical Park, Texas, where during an 1836 battle, Sam Houston’s army defeated Santa Anna’s troops, creating the independent Republic of Texas. A 570-foot (174 m) obelisk marks the spot (above), the tallest stone Read More...
Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 4:03 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

GIS is Integrative and Interdisciplinary

At conferences and exhibits, we regularly have educators come by and ask “where does GIS fit in the curriculum?” Once getting beyond the moment of having that deer in the headlights look on my face and the thought “it fits everywhere,” I get into a rhythm Read More...
Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 2:52 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): GIS is interdisciplinary.pdf

Digging Deeper Into Population Change By County Using the 3D Analyst Extension

We have recently been examining a simple yet powerful topic that can easily be studied with a GIS—population change over time. We have been asking why population change in US counties has occurred, if current trends are radically different than past trends, Read More...
Posted Friday, April 18, 2008 3:18 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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Digging Deeper Into Population Change By County Using Research

Charlie Fitzpatrick wrote a blog on how to use AEJEE software to analyze county population change between 2000 and 2005, on: http://blogs.esri.com/Info/blogs/gisedcom/archive/2008/03/24/exploring-pop-change-with-aejee.aspx Using a simple county query Read More...
Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 7:23 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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Visualizing GPS Waypoints and Tracks in a GIS

A GIS is perfect for representing and exploring your field data associated with specific locations on the Earth’s surface gathered with a GPS receiver. GPS coordinates are typically stored as waypoints, tracks, and routes. Waypoints are locations that Read More...
Posted Friday, April 04, 2008 2:50 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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Using Callout Labels in ArcMap

The ArcMap application within ArcGIS allows you to create an amazing variety of fonts, colors, and types of labels that identify point, line, and area features. One of the most useful types of labels is the callout label. This label “calls out” from the Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 22, 2008 2:51 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Using Pictures for Marker Symbols

ArcMap comes with thousands of point, line, and area symbols for you to use. Point marker symbols include two- and three-dimensional points covering geology, environmental, buildings, trees, weather, and more. However, did you know that you can create Read More...
Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 2:13 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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Changing the Sample Size for Map Classifications

Let’s say you want to make a map in ArcGIS that is classified by some attribute. For example, the map below shows a data set of 44, 254 earthquakes from the years 1964 to 2004 mapped with a single symbol for each earthquake: If you access the Symbology Read More...
Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 4:34 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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