Welcome to Drew University's Spatial Data Center Tutorial Resources uKnow page. Here you will find links to tutorial files for use with ESRI ArcMap and ArcCatalog Software, ArcPad, Google Earth, and Google Maps. You will also find here information on the care and maintenance of the Spatial Data Center Equipment.
If you find these tutorials useful and would like to link to them from your own pages,please contact the Drew Spatial Data Center Director, Dr. Catherine Riihimaki via email. You are invited to leave comments or ask questions in any of the Comment areas of each tutorial page.
Getting Started with GIS
Google Maps and Google Earth Tutorials
Exporting ArcGIS Data to Google Earth (link to PDF document)
Data Management Tutorials for ArcGIS
Making Maps with ArcGIS (link to PDF document)
ArcMap - Downloading Census Data for Use in ArcGIS
Formatting Data for Use in ArcGIS
Converting Coordinates from Degrees Minutes Seconds into Decimal Degrees
ArcGIS Explorer Desktop
ArcGIS: ArcMap
Changing or Transforming a Coordinate System for a Map Layer
Digitizing and Editing Features in Shapefiles and Map Layers
Converting Degrees Minutes Seconds values to Decimal Degree values
Geocoding: Using Address Information to Map Sites
Plotting XY Coordinates as Points in a Map Layer
ArcGIS: ArcCatalog
ArcCatalog - Building Personal Geodatabases
ArcCatalog - Creating New Shapefiles or Feature Classes
ArcPad
Elements of the GPS Status Bar (ESRI document excerpt)
(Adapted from ESRI, "ArcPad User's Guide," Environmental Systems Research Incorporated: Redlands, CA, 2010. Accessed July 1, 2011 http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/arcpad/details?entryID=2E94AC3C-1422-2418-34A1-4B4839636C4E.)
Elements of the GPS Position Window (ESRI document excerpt)
(Adapted from ESRI, "ArcPad User's Guide," Environmental Systems Research Incorporated: Redlands, CA, 2010. Accessed July 1, 2011 http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/arcpad/details?entryID=2E94AC3C-1422-2418-34A1-4B4839636C4E.)
How to Collect Data Points with the GPS
(Adapted from ESRI, "ArcPad User's Guide," Environmental Systems Research Incorporated: Redlands, CA, 2010. Accessed July 1, 2011 http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/arcpad/details?entryID=2E94AC3C-1422-2418-34A1-4B4839636C4E.)
Changing the Symbology of Points in the GPS Unit
Check In and Check Out Map Files for Editing in the Field
Finding and Navigating to Previously Recorded Locations in the Field (ESRI PDF document excerpt)
(Adapted from ESRI, "ArcPad User's Guide," Environmental Systems Research Incorporated: Redlands, CA, 2010. Accessed July 1, 2011 http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/arcpad/details?entryID=2E94AC3C-1422-2418-34A1-4B4839636C4E.)
Full ArcPad 10 Help Documentation (ESRI PDF document)
(ESRI, "ArcPad User's Guide," Environmental Systems Research Incorporated: Redlands, CA, 2010. Accessed July 1, 2011 http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/arcpad/details?entryID=2E94AC3C-1422-2418-34A1-4B4839636C4E, 787 pages.)
Trimble GPS
Uploading Satellite Images and Map Layer Files to the GPS
eTrex GPS
Garmin eTrex - Notes on Recording, Finding, and Reading Waypoints
Garmin eTrex - Exporting Data to a Tab Delimited File for use in Excel