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

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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Creating GIS Datasets

Plotting XY Coordinates in ArcGIS Pro

the Georeferencing Menu in ArcGIS Pro

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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

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Finding Data

Data Sources | back to top

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

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