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So, let's talk a little bit about the software.

ArcGIS desktop is actually a collection of programs.

The traditional version of desktop has ArcMap, ArtCatalogue, and ArcScene.

So, those are used for things like creating and analyzing maps.

With that version of the software,

ArcMap is the program that you would use by

far the most that's where you're going to bring in your data,

make your maps, do most of your analysis.

Our catalog is really more just for file management and

ArcScene is for doing 3-dimensional visualization.

ArcGIS Pro is a newer version of the software

that tends to combine functionality from the ones above.

It's meant to be an eventual replacement for ArcMap and ArcCatalog and ArcScene.

So, right now, they're kind of working in tandems that you can run ArcMap and

ArcGIS Pro or ArcPro as it's often referred

to simultaneously but they're completely different programs.

ArcGIS Earth is kind of like Google Earth.

It's more of a an Earth Viewer.

This is a snapshot of ArcMap.

For many people, this is still the bread-and-butter program, if you want.

It's the one that they use by far the most in

their daily work and I've just highlighted the main components of it.

This is the data view here where you actually look at your map.

This is the table of contents that lists the maps that you're using.

So, whether it's emergency shelters or

volcanoes or major highways and you can turn these layers on and off,

there's a table here that's associated with one of

these map layers so you can look at both the map,

data, and the table version of that data at the same time.

There's ArcCatalog.

This is an ArcCatalog pane inside ArcMap.

So, you can want our catalog as a separate program completely

or just kind of like a mini version that you can access from

within ArcMap which I tend to prefer because it's so convenient

and this is where you do a lot of things related to file management.

So, if you need to copy files or move files or add them to your map documents,

that's how you would do that.

Then over here on the left is

the ArcToolbox pane and this has

what we see here are

these little toolboxes which really you can kind of think of as folders.

Inside each of these, there are a set of tools related to

these particular tasks so things like editing or converting data or

analyzing and so you can go in and use each of

those tools and apply it to the data that you're working within your ArcMap document.

So, we'll get into more of this stuff as we go

along but I just wanted you to see how it works.

We have all kinds of different menus up here.

You can add different toolbars for things like editing,

for drawing, all kinds of things.

So, as we go along,

you'll probably want to familiarize yourself with the interface

and see what's there and what I do with it but this

is just to kind of give you a sense of what it looks like.

If you want our catalog as a separate program as opposed to using

our catalog pane from within ArcMap, this is what it looks like.

It's really just designed around file management, data management.

We have a very typical kind of catalog create tree.

You see this a lot in different windows programs so you can expand each of these folders,

you can see what's inside the folders.

Here we have a Geo-database.

We have what we call feature classes

inside that Geo-database and if you click on one of those,

you can see the contents of that on the right-hand side.

You can see that there's a contents tab,

so this is showing us the contents of this Z folder or Z for my American friends.

This is the Z folder.

So, if you clicked on this,

it would show you over here what the contents of that folder actually are.

If we switch to the second tab here the preview then if you select this feature classes,

one is for fire stations then we can preview the geography of that

and all this is meant to do is just give you a quick idea of what's inside that data set.

You're not actually mapping anything or creating a map yet,

you're just saying what's in there.

So that's what this is supposed to show you is just,

oh so there's a bunch of dots in there.

This is the pattern of them.

This is what it looks like. You can select the third tab here which is

a description of the same fire stations

and this gives us information about that data-set.

This would also be referred to as metadata.

Metadata is information about a data-set.

This is super important.

You'll hear me refer to this from time to

time especially when you're looking for your own data or

searching for data or trying to decide whether a particular data set is

useful is to know information about that data-set.

So, the data-set itself is, say,

a set of points that are things like fire stations.

Information about that data-set is the metadata and that's things like who created it?

When did they create it?

Why did they create it?

Do I have to pay for it?

What coordinate system was used to create it?

Really the idea is that you want to have enough information to be able to decide

whether this particular data-set is useful for your purpose, for your application.

ArcGIS Pro is a completely separate piece of software

from ArcGIS Desktop which is considered ArcMap or cataloger scene.

It's a newer generation of software,

it was written from scratch with a new interface to take advantage of

the processing power and modern graphical user interfaces that are available now.

So, it has a very different look to it and the funny thing is,

if you're someone like me who's spent many years working with

ArcMap which is the older version of the software,

it's a separate piece of software then moving

to this is actually a bit of work because things are completely different.

But if you're new to GIS which I'm assuming you probably are,

then it's pretty good news for you because if you want to use ArcPro,

it's more user-friendly for someone who's coming at this fresh for the first time.

Now, ArtPro is something that's still being adopted.

It's not that everyone has completely moved over

to it even though it's better and faster,

there's still some functionality that hasn't been put into it yet.

There's a bit of inertia in that a lot of people like myself tend to use older tools

because we're more familiar with them but I would highly

encourage you to also check at ArcGIS Pro.

It's definitely the wave of the future.

It's what people are going to be using for years to come.

So, it's definitely got a lot of

advantages to it and it's something that definitely you'd want to have a look.

You'll notice that it's very similar to ArcMap in some ways.

You have your mapping area,

attribute table, table of contents with a list of maps here.

We have our tool boxes.

We have a project pane and they

don't have a traditional art catalog pane yet but I'm told that that's coming soon,

and then the upper part here is using

a ribbon kind of style of interface which is similar to,

say, things like Microsoft Office.

So, it'll be familiar to you if you've used those products before.

In terms of software related to using ArcGIS and the Cloud,

really the main things that we need to look at are just the browser and apps.

ArcGIS Online is completely run through a web browser.

So, as opposed to ArcMap or ArcGIS Pro which you have to install on your own computer,

ArcGIS online can be run strictly through a browser without installing anything.

They've designed it in a way that's similar or familiar.

If you've used ArcGIS desktop or pro before,

so again, we have a mapped area.

We have an attribute table.

We have our table of contents over here with a list of map layers.

We have a menu which is simpler then

in the desktop versions but still has a fair amount of functionality and then we

have this header here which tells us the name of

the map that we're

creating and then there's a couple of other things here in terms of accessing,

say, your ArcGIS online account.

This is by no means the same level of functionality as using the desktop version.

At this point, it's not meant to be that.

So, there's only a smaller number of tools available but I'm

constantly amazed at how many tools Ezri has added to this and

the amount of things that you can do using nothing more than

a browser and a lot of these things are available for free as well which is amazing.

The nice thing about ArcGIS Online as well is that you can create a web map that you

can customize based on data that you've created

or that you bring in from some other source.

Create your web map, save it,

and then send it as a URL to your friends,

colleagues or whomever and share that web map with them and it's far beyond just,

say, Google map or something like that where you can actually add in

data sets that you're interested in and create your own customized web map,

which is pretty awesome.

There's analysis tools that are available.

So, if I click on the Analysis tab here,

we have things like summarizing data,

we can aggregate points,

summarize things nearby, summarize within.

There's lots of things to explore in there.

There's also other sets of tools for things like finding locations,

data enrichment which is like adding in things like demographic data,

analyzing patterns using proximities and managing data.

So, they're always adding new things in here.

Like I said, I'm really appreciative of what Evris done

with this and the fact that so many of

these tools are freely available, it's pretty great.

To go along with ArcGIS Online,

there are apps available for phones and tablets.

One of the ones I just want to draw your attention to here is the Explorer app.

There's other ones but I'm not going to go through all of them.

But I mentioned this one because you can create a map in ArcGIS Online using

a web browser and then access that custom map that

you created on your phone from wherever you happen to be.

As long as you have an internet connection,

you can use their Explorer app to be able to connect to

that data and interact with it while you're walking around in the real world.

So, there's a useful amount of

functionality there because not only can you create this stuff on the web,

but you can then take it with you wherever you go.

There's other apps available for doing things like data collection.

There's an app called Collector,

there's one called Survey123.

So, I encourage you to explore some of those as well

but that's beyond the scope of what we're going to talk about here.