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Class
• Class meets here 7:00 Tuesdays for
between 1 and 1.5 hours
• A Lab immediately follows the class in 143
Baker
• A second lab is Friday 2-5 in 143 Baker
• The labs are essentially times when you
know you can reach me or Mr. Halligan
• You are NOT required to attend any lab
and are free to attend either of them.
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BUT…
• What usually happens is that after 23 weeks (labs) people get comfortable
enough with the software that they
work on their own and lab space opens
up.
• When that happens any one can go to
any lab as long as there is machine
available.
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How the Class works
• There are NO exams – useless in a
course like this
• There are quizzes and the focus of
them is on terminology and where
“stuff” is located in the ArcGIS
interface
• There are weekly assignments …
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Assignments
• Each week the following assignments are
usually made
– A module of the ESRI on-line course
– The ESRI quiz results for each exercise in the
module are turned in at class the following week
– A no-hands-held assignment by me that
reinforces the module material is also turned
the following week
• ESRI on-line course 
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Texts
• The main text is ESRI’s on-line course
“Learning ArcGIS 9”
• I is free!

(but you need a password)
• The other text is “Practical Vector GIS”.
A reader from the Marshall Mall Copy
Center ($8)
• A suggested text is “Getting to know
ArcGIS” but make sure you get the edition
for version 9.1! (Amazon is cheaper)
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More on Passwords
• These Access Codes are ~14 alpha
characters
• That makes it easy to make a mistake
• So copy the password from the e-mail
and paste it into the dialog requesting
the password.
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College assigned e-mail
• It is very important that you use the
assigned e-mail address
• It is the ONLY one I will use
• It is very easy to forward mail from
the SU account to the account you
usually use – DO IT!
• Quiz 1 requires that you do it!
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Doing the on-line course
• Method 1
– You can do it by having two windows open on the
computer
• ArcGIS
• Web page with instructions
– You then flip back forth (and lose your place)
• Method 2
– Copy and paste lessons/exercises into word
– Print it – now you have a book
– You put that next to the computer and check
off what you do (and don’t lose your place)
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Where are Assignments found?
• On the FOR557 schedule that can be
accessed from the course web page –
lets go there!
http://www.esf.edu/for/herrington/557/for557.htm
• The schedule is where you will also find:
– Lecture topics and PowerPoints
– Reading Assignments
– Notes
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Where are the rules?
• On the course web page in the Syllabus
http://www.esf.edu/for/herrington/557/details557.htm
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Course descriptions
Grading
Rules about handing stuff in
Etc.
Note: The only paper handed out in this
class is a) Quizzes and b) Grade reports.
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Everything else is on the web!
Please
• Read and check the web pages!
http://www.esf.edu/for/herrington/
– Course Information
• Details, details, details
– Schedule
– Links
• My e-mail is [email protected]
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Forwarding e-mail
• If you don’t want to use your @syr.edu assigned to you by the
College then go to
https://selfserv.syr.edu/accounts/
Click on e-mail address registry
• And you end up here…
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Forwarding e-mail
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Easy
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Data Management
• Data for all MY exercises will available on
the Baker Lab’s Server Academic1 or online via the course web site
• Some of this data is large (megabytes)
• So this raises the question “where do I
store my data?”
• Media…
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Backing up is YOUR responsibility!
• First choice of media
– 128 or 512 meg flash memory stick
– These devices plug into USB ports
and are pretty idiot proof
• 2nd choice of media
– 250 meg Zip disk
– NOT 100 meg and NOT 750 meg
– 250 meg seems to be universal on
campus
The smart person has 2 of either of these! It is very easy
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to trash the contents of either one!
Storage of Exercise Data
• Since Zip disks and flash memory sticks are
relatively slow the best solution is…
• Get in the habit of running exercises from a
workspace on C:\ and NOT from your backup
storage device!
• Workspaces left on a cluster machine have about
a 99.99% probability of not being there when
your come back to the machine (assuming you
remember exactly which machine you were using!)
• That means that you must copy workspaces from
C:\ to your backup media and vice-versa.
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Trashing backup media?
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Very easy to do!
XP (and other Win versions) store what
is to be written to a flash stick or Zip
in a buffer.
The buffer is written to the media
when
a. The device is stopped (USB flash or zip)
b. The Zip is properly ejected (Never eject
by pushing the eject button on the drive!)
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Basic Procedure
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3.
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7.
Create workspace on
C: on lab machine
Create folder in
workspace for
exercise
Do work
Save to C:
Copy to workspace to
C:
Verify that it was
copied
Delete workspace on
C:
8.
Return to lab, any
machine
9. Copy workspace from
stick to C:
10. Continue working or
create a new
exercise folder
11. Go back to #5
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Trashing backup media?
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Yup!
XP (an other versions) store what is to
be written to a flash stick or Zip in a
buffer.
The buffer is written to the media
when
a. The device is stopped (USB flash or zip)
b. The Zip is properly ejected (Never eject
by pushing the eject button on the drive!)
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ArcInfo
ArcEdit
– ArcView
– ArcEdit
– ArcInfo
ArcView
• ArcGIS has 3
license levels
Power
ArcGIS
License level
•And every license level has 2 programs
 ArcMap The main GIS software
 ArcCatalog A data management tool
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We will be using…
• ArcView 9.1
• The lowest license level of ArcGIS
• The same as ArcGIS but without the full
set of tools that the ArcInfo license level
has.
• I will be able to provide any student who
wants it
• with a 1-year copy of ArcGIS.
• But be aware that you must have a fast
machine with lots of memory and diskspace.
• The size of the software is in 10s of
megabytes
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Extensions to ArcMap
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Allow even more capability in ArcView 9.1
Spatial Analyst – raster GIS
3-D Analyst
GeoStatistical Analyst
Business Analyst
ArcPress – for making published map files
ArcIMS – Internet Map Server
And many others
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ESRI?
• ESRI is not the only company making
GIS software. There are others
– Intergraph
– Small World
MapInfo
IDRISI
• So why is ESF fixated on ESRI
products?
– Defacto standard for many states
including NY.
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The Schedule
• The course schedule is kept up to
date on the web
• Since this is almost a new course you
can expect changes in the schedule as
we work through it so don’t bother to
print it!
• Where is it?
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Course Web Resources
• The schedule is the key to what is
going on.
• PowerPoints, exercises, etc. can all be
downloaded – we hand out very little
paper! (quizzes).
• Notes – sources of information
• Help at @Help557@rousmail esf.edu
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Addendum
• No exams
• Weekly lab assignments
• 3-6 hrs per assignment – some time
more
• Computers and people who use
computers can be very frustrating!
• Don’t fall behind or you are dead
• Have to turn stuff in ON TIME!
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And…
• Since there are so many people in
here this year I have to change the
way I teach
• As a result the schedule may, at
times (like now) only be good for the
current week
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The End
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