rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_2926e1d1-3163-5e27-9bb9-b625018cff25">Exercise 2b: Examine the data
Exercise 2c: Reframe the problem statement
Exercise 3a: Choose the datasets
Exercise 3b: Choose a coordinate system
Exercise 4a: Project a shapefile
Exercise 4b: Copy a feature class
Exercise 4c: Prepare the city and county data
Exercise 4d: Prepare the river data
Exercise 4e: Prepare the park data
Exercise 4f: Prepare the block group data
Exercise 4g: Prepare the parcel data
Exercise 5b: Create a new park feature
Exercise 6a: Establish proximity zones
Exercise 6b: Apply demographic constraints
Exercise 6c: Select suitable parcels
Exercise 6d: Clean up the map and geodatabase
Exercise 6e: Evaluate your results
Exercise 7b: Build the model (part 1)
Exercise 7c: Build the model (part 2)
Exercise 7d: Run the model as a tool
Lesson 8Present your analysis results
Exercise 8a: Create the main map
Exercise 8b: Create a layout using the LA River and inset maps
Lesson 9Share your results online
Exercise 9a: Publish web layers to ArcGIS Online
Exercise 9c: Change web layer styles
Exercise 9f: Configure pop-up windows
Exercise 9g: Create a Basic Viewer web mapping app
Exercise 9h: Create an Esri® Story Map SeriesSM web app
Appendix AImagery and data credits
Foreword
More than 20 years ago, I was involved with a book project here at Esri®. We produced and published a software workbook called Understanding GIS: The ARC/INFO Method. We were just a group of people at this little geographic information system (GIS) software company in Redlands, California, who saw that the users of our ARC/INFO software needed better guidance on how to use these tools for real analysis projects. Our original goal had been to write a book called Getting Started with ARC/INFO. More than 500 pages later, we realized that we had described a methodology for doing GIS projects in their entirety and needed to change the title.
The key idea was to set up a problem in the book, provide the data, and then let the students work through the whole process. Little did we know that our book would become a worldwide best seller and inspire a generation of technically savvy geographers.
Fast-forward to 2018. GIS has evolved to keep pace with a changing technology landscape. There have been huge innovations in geospatial data models and user interfaces; GIS now lives and breathes on the web. Much has changed. Yet the need for our users to understand how to organize and think about how to effectively conduct a GIS project persists. This book, Understanding GIS: An ArcGIS® Pro Project Workbook, now in its fourth edition since 2011, carries on the spirit and method of the original GIS approaches that inspired it. I’m especially happy that this new edition—featuring the highlights of the latest version of our next-generation ArcGIS® Pro software—was enthusiastically adopted, and executed with precision, by our friends at the University of Redlands, the college geographically closest to Esri headquarters. I’m pleased to say that the new edition supports the traditional mission while also integrating the new GIS paradigm. It is our hope that it will inspire yet another generation of GIS professionals and practitioners.
Clint
