Education UC workshop resources available for download

By Aileen Buckley, Esri Research Cartographer

Two workshops presented at the 2012 Esri Education User Conference have associated resources that you can now download. The workshops are Methods for Visualizing Space-Time Data and Working With and Creating Basemaps.

Topics covered in the basemaps workshop include:

• What are basemaps?
• Exploring basemap layers
• Using ArcGIS Online basemaps
• Creating a basemap
• Creating grayscale basemaps from ArcGIS Online basemaps

Topics covered in the space-time workshop include:

• Cartographic methods for visualizing space-time data
• Time-enabled GIS
• Visualizing nontemporal attributes
• Dynamic image services

Resources in the downloads include the PowerPoint slides, Word documents for the exercises, and GIS data/maps. You can use these to learn the techniques yourself or teach others in your workplace or classroom.

Download the resources here, and have fun learning and teaching!

Methods for Visualizing Space-Time Data (about 419 MB)
Using and Creating ArcGIS Basemaps (about 58 MB)

About the author

Aileen Buckley

Dr. Aileen Buckley has been making maps since she was an undergraduate student. She has a Bachelors in Geography and Spanish from Valparaiso University, a Masters in Geography from Indiana University, and a Ph.D. in Geography from Oregon State University. She is a senior product engineer on the Living Atlas team, and her work focuses on determining and sharing best practices for mapping and analysis with modern GIS. She publishes and presents world-wide on many aspects of mapping and GIS. She is a co-author of Map Use: Reading, Analysis, Interpretation, and she is a co-editor for the Atlas of Oregon. Aileen is a former president of CaGIS (the U.S. cartographic association) and is actively involved with the International Cartographic Association in which she is the lead delegate for the United States.

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