GIS-related tutorials

Geospatial Centre staff have created the following hands-on tutorials to assist new users with the basics of specific software programs. Each tutorial comes with a manual and corresponding Geographic Information System (GIS) files.

Please contact Eva Dodsworth with your questions and suggestions.

ArcGIS-related

• Getting Started with ArcGIS Pro (ZIP) : 2020 tutorial
• Getting Started with ArcGIS (ZIP) : 2019 tutorial
• Mapping Census Data in ArcGIS and ArcGIS Pro  : 2022 tutorial
• Spatial Analysis using ArcGIS and ArcGIS Pro : 2022 tutorial
• Beyond 20-20 statistical data (ZIP) : 2017 guide
• ArcGIS Online Tutorial : 2022 tutorial
• ArcGIS Online Webmapping for Organizations: 2023 tutorial
• Working with DEMs and spot heights in ArcMap (PDF) : 2017 guide
• Georeferencing Raster Data using ArcMap 10.3 (PDF) : 2017 guide
• Generating orthoimagery raster mosaics (ZIP) : 2017 guide
• Using ModelBuilder in ArcGIS (ZIP) : 2017 guide

Open source GIS software

• NetLogo: Agent Based Modeling using Netlogo Desktop (GIS extension): 2019 tutorial (ZIP)
• Dynamic Flood Simulation using HEC-RAS 5.0.7 : 2019 tutorial (ZIP)
• QGIS Tutorial 2022.zip : 2022 tutorial
• Open source comparison (PDF) : 2018 guide

Web mapping

• Google Earth Pro : 2022 guide
• Shapefile to KML (ZIP) : 2019 guide
• Georeferencing historical maps in GIS (ZIP) : 2017 tutorial
• ArcGIS Online : 2022 tutorial
•  ​​Google My Maps : 2022 tutorial

Geocoding

• Batch Geo: 2022 tutorial​