GIS: Online Tutorials and More

The Harvard Design School (GSD) has an online manual for GIS which, while customized for a GSD audience, has much useful information for anyone learning or using GIS. Topics included here: "Beginning a GIS Database," "Digital Elevation Models," "Clipping an Ocean Polygon," "Reclassifying Data with Lookup Tables," "Converting GIS Layers to DXF," "ArcMap Data Management Tips," "Designing for Visibility," "Geocoding," "Mapping with Quantitative Data," and "Elements of Cartographic Style." There are also tutorials, some of which are publicly available: ArcMap Data Management, ArcMap Projections, Mapping Census Data, Georeferencing Scanned Maps and Aerial Photos, Raster GIS in ArcMap, Vector Procedures in ArcMap, Modeling Terrain with Contours and Surfaces, Modeling Surfaces with Mapped Images, and more.