the Skills Tutorials List
An archive of all tutorials, categorized by GIS activity.
On this page: Basics | Working with Attributes | Mapping Data | Analyzing Data | Making Data | Finding Data
Basics
Getting Started
Start Here: Getting Started and Basic Settings in ArcGIS Pro | in QGIS
the Software Interface: the ArcGIS Pro Interface | the QGIS Interface
Adding and Ordering Layers in a Project in ArcGIS Pro | in QGIS
Accessing Feature Attributes in ArcGIS Pro | in QGIS
Making Interactive Measurements in ArcGIS Pro | in QGIS
Changing the Background of a Map View in ArcGIS Pro | Map Canvas in QGIS
Working with Multiple Maps: Map Views in ArcGIS Pro (only)
Map Layouts: The Layout View & Map Frames in ArcGIS Pro | Print Layouts, Map Surrounds, & Exporting a Map in QGIS
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Utilities
Citing Maps & Data with citation examples, not software-specific
Fixing Broken Data Layer Links in ArcGIS Pro
All About Layer Properties in ArcGIS Pro
Attribute Field Properties in ArcGIS Pro
Adding Rasters to a Map Project (pyramids & statistics) for ArcGIS Pro and ArcMap
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Working with Attributes
All About Attributes & Tables | Field Calculations | Utilities | back to top
All About Attributes & Tables
Accessing Feature Attributes in ArcGIS Pro | in QGIS
Attribute Field Properties in ArcGIS Pro
Summarizing Attributes in ArcGIS Pro
Table Joins in ArcGIS Pro
Field Calculations
General Field Calculation tutorials
Adding & Calculating Fields in an Attribute Table in ArcGIS Pro
Calculating Geometry Attributes of Vector Features in ArcGIS Pro
Specific Field Calculation Helpers
Copying Values to a New Field in ArcGIS Pro
Calculating Proportion (and other simple calculations) in ArcGIS Pro
Calculating Percent Difference in ArcGIS Pro
Excerpt a String from a Series or List in ArcGIS Pro
Concatenating Fields in ArcGIS Pro
Utilities
Labeling Features (with values from an attribute table) in ArcGIS Pro
Preparing ACS Data from the US Census Bureau for a Table Join in MS Excel (as an example platform)
Working with Excel Sheets in ArcGIS Pro
Changing the Maximum Sample Size for Quantitative Symbology options in ArcGIS Pro
Queries & Selections
Interactive Selections & Other Selection Basics in ArcGIS Pro
Querying by Attributes in ArcGIS Pro
Querying based on Spatial Relationships in ArcGIS Pro
More about Selections in ArcGIS Pro
Creating a New Layer from Selected Features in ArcGIS Pro
Symbology & Classification
Symbology Menus: the Symbology Panel in ArcGIS Pro | the Symbology Options in QGIS
Vectors
Single Symbols for Vector Features in ArcGIS Pro
Categorical Symbols for Vector Features in ArcGIS Pro
Unclassified Quantitative Symbology for Vector Features in ArcGIS Pro
Classifying Features by Quantitative Attribute Values in ArcGIS Pro
Classified Quantitative Symbology for Vector Features in ArcGIS Pro
Rasters
Categorical (Unique Values) Symbology for Raster Datasets in ArcGIS Pro
Unclassified Quantitative Symbology for Rasters (“Stretched” Colors) in ArcGIS Pro
Classified Quantitative Symbology for Raster Datasets in ArcGIS Pro
Symbolizing Composite Rasters as Stretched RGB Values in ArcGIS Pro
Updating Stretched Color Symbology dynamically: Dynamic Range Adjustment in ArcGIS Pro
Projections & Coordinate Reference Systems
The Map’s CRS and Projection: the CRS of a Map View in ArcGIS
Identifying the CRS of a Layer in ArcGIS Pro | in QGIS
Accessing (and Modifying) CRS Details in ArcGIS Pro
Reprojecting Spatial Data in ArcGIS Pro
Defining the Projection of a Vector Feature Class in ArcGIS Pro
Setting Up & Exporting a Map
Map Layouts: The Layout View & Map Frames in ArcGIS Pro | Print Layouts, Map Surrounds & Exporting a Map in QGIS
Adding Additional Elements (north arrow, scale bar, legend, etc) to a Layout in ArcGIS Pro | in QGIS
Exporting a Map to PDF, JPG, etc from ArcGIS Pro | from QGIS
Webmapping
Getting Started in Visual Studio Code
Getting Started with Leaflet
Adding GeoJSON Points to a Leaflet Map
Zoom & Pan Settings with Leaflet
Creating Popups on Points in Leaflet
Utilities
Citing Maps & Data with citation examples, not software-specific
All About Layer Properties in ArcGIS Pro
Using Bookmarks for Map Views in ArcGIS Pro
Changing the Maximum Sample Size for Quantitative Symbology options in ArcGIS Pro
Labeling Features (with values from an attribute table) in ArcGIS Pro
Analyzing Data
Vector Geoprocessing | Raster Geoprocessing | Network Analysis | Spatial Statistics | Remote Sensing | Utilities | back to top
Vector Geoprocessing
Overlay and Aggregation Operations
Spatial Joins in ArcGIS Pro
Clipping Features in ArcGIS Pro
Dissolving Features in ArcGIS Pro
Creating New Geometry
Creating Points from Polygons with the Feature to Point tool in ArcGIS Pro | with the Centroids Tool in QGIS
Generating Bounding Geometry: Creating a Boundary Polygon in ArcGIS Pro | Creating and Comparing Bounding Geometry in QGIS
Creating Buffers
Standard: in ArcGIS Pro
Multi-ring: in QGIS
Vector Inputs > Raster Outputs
Creating Euclidean Distance rasters from vector input layers in ArcGIS Pro
Calculating Kernel Density rasters from vector input layers in ArcGIS Pro
Raster Geoprocessing
Calculating Zonal Statistics in ArcGIS Pro
Using the Raster Calculator for Map Algebra in ArcGIS Pro
Reclassifying Rasters in ArcGIS Pro
Vector Inputs > Raster Outputs
Creating Euclidean Distance Rasters from vector input layers in ArcGIS Pro
Calculating Kernel Density Rasters from vector input layers in ArcGIS Pro
Raster Inputs > Vector Outputs
Converting Rasters to Polygon Features in ArcGIS Pro
Converting Rasters to Point Features in ArcGIS Pro
Raster Geoprocessing Utilities
Extracting Rasters with a Mask Layer in ArcGIS Pro
Making a Raster Layer from a Multiband Raster Dataset in ArcGIS Pro
Exporting a Raster Dataset (to a new raster dataset, with resampling options) in ArcGIS Pro
Creating a Composite Band Raster Dataset in ArcGIS Pro
Network Analysis
Esri Network Datasets
from a Polyline Feature Class to an Esri Network Dataset for ArcGIS Pro only
Creating & Building a Simple Esri Network Dataset for ArcGIS Pro only
Network Analysis in ArcGIS Pro
Working with Network Analysis Layers for ArcGIS Pro only
Making a Service Area Analysis Layer for ArcGIS Pro only
Adding Locations to a Network Analysis Layer for ArcGIS Pro only
Solving a Network Analysis Layer for ArcGIS Pro only
Network Analysis in QGIS
Creating Service Areas from an Input Feature Layer for QGIS only
Creating Service Areas from an Interactively Chosen Point for QGIS only
Spatial Statistics
Summary Statistics
Finding the (Average) Center of features in ArcGIS Pro
Calculating the Standard and Directional Distributions of features in ArcGIS Pro
Clustering and Dispersion
Average Nearest Neighbor test for global clustering or dispersion in ArcGIS Pro
Getis-Ord Gi* test for local clustering with the Hotspot Analysis tool in ArcGIS Pro
Remote Sensing
Creating a Composite Band Raster Dataset in ArcGIS Pro
Creating Training Samples for Supervised Image Classification in ArcGIS Pro
Using Esri’s Image Classification Wizard for ArcGIS Pro only
Utilities
Which Esri Extensions is My Software Licensed to Use? for ArcGIS Pro only
Accessing Geoprocessing Tools in ArcGIS Pro
Accessing Geoprocessing History & Results in ArcGIS Pro
Setting up Parallel Processing in ArcGIS Pro
Setting Geoprocessing Extents in ArcGIS Pro
Batch Processing in QGIS
Making Data
Creating GIS Datasets | Data Types & Conversions | back to top
Data Types & Conversions
Vector <> Raster
Converting Rasters to Polygon Features in ArcGIS Pro
Converting Rasters to Point Features in ArcGIS Pro
Converting Vector Features to Rasters in ArcGIS Pro
Vector > Vector
Creating a New Layer from Selected Features in ArcGIS Pro
Creating Points from Polygons with the Feature to Point tool in ArcGIS Pro | with the Centroids Tool in QGIS
Raster > Raster
Exporting a Raster Dataset (to a new raster dataset, with resampling options) in ArcGIS Pro
Making a Raster Layer from a Multiband Raster Dataset in ArcGIS Pro
Creating a Composite Band Raster Dataset in ArcGIS Pro
Network Datasets
from a Polyline Feature Class to an Esri Network Dataset for ArcGIS Pro only
Creating & Building a Simple Esri Network Dataset for ArcGIS Pro only
Miscellaneous Data Types and Formats
Converting Vector Features to GeoJSON in ArcGIS Pro
Creating an Esri Feature Dataset in ArcGIS Pro only
Importing a Feature Class into a Geodatabase for ArcGIS Pro only
Finding Data
Data Sources
Citing Maps & Data with citation examples, not software-specific
Downloading TIGER/Line Shapefiles from the US Census Bureau through the web
Downloading Census Tables from the US Census Bureau through the web
Downloading Landsat Data from the USGS EarthExplorer website