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Making Your First Map

GIS Support Contacts

Chris Gist
GIS Specialist
cgist@virginia.edu
434.982.2637

Kelly Johnston
GIS Specialist
kjohnston@virginia.edu
434.243.4242

Class Items

Class Handout

Class Data

The class data link is a zip archive. The files from the zip archive must be extracted to your local computer before you can use them. If you don't know what that means, please see this.

Resources

What is GIS? USGS ESRI

Software

As UVA affiliates, you are eligible to receive a copy of ESRI's ArcGIS suite, a set of GIS tools. Please come to the Scholars' Lab to pick up an installation DVD. You can use it on Grounds or you must use UVA's UVaAnywhere.

Georeferencing Tutorial

American Factfinder: Data portal for the U.S. Census Bureau

Main Page

Tutorial

 



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