Tag: GIS tutorial
How to Add XY Coordinates to a File in ArcGIS
If you are using Esri’s ArcGIS GIS software program, there is a simple way to add coordinate information to the attribute table of a GIS data set. Outlined in this article are the steps to take in order to add X Y coordinates to a field in the attribute table. The tool used in ArcGIS [...]
Investigating Health Inequalities Across England Using Web Mapping
This tutorial about using GIS to investigate health inequalities in England is a guest contribution by Robert Lang. Local Health is an online GIS site of United Kingdom Health Profiles that has been created by Geoclip a French GIS company for the Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO) for the NHS to allow users in health [...]
How Can Looking at Hurricane Tracks Help to Understand Them?
Robert Lang has contributed this GIS tutorial on using publicly available hurricane mapping sites to understand hurricane tracks. Exploratory questions are posted within the steps of this hurricane track tutorial. Hurricanes are an example of a natural hazard that can be investigated in the Key Stage 3 Geography national curriculum and in most examination syllabi. [...]
How To Import Data and Make Maps with Google Fusion Tables
This GIS tutorial by Naveen Sidda looks at Google Fusions Tables, how to import geographic data from a web page, and how to create map out geographic data within Google Maps. What is Google Fusion Tables? Google Fusion Tables is a data web service which is built on the concept of cloud computing for [...]
Calculating Polygon Area in ArcMap
You can easily calculated geometry in ArcMap with a few simple steps. Calculating geometry in ArcGIS allows you to find the area and perimeter of your polygons. Here are the step for calculating the area of a polygon using ArcGIS. These steps can also be replicated for calculating the perimeter of a polygon or the [...]