Geog 210 – GIS for the Social Sciences & Humanities

These tutorial exercises are only for students enrolled in Geog 210 at Mount Holyoke College. The required datasets are available in the GeoProcessing Lab.

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Return to Resources for learning GIS @ MHC

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Exercise 1 – Online GIS

Exercise 2 – Intro to ArcGIS

Exercise 3 – Thematic Mapping

Exercise 4 – Vector Analysis (DB Query)

Exercise 5 – Census & joins

Exercise 6 – Geoprocessing

Exercise 7 – Finding data, AG Online, XY, GPS

Exercise 8 – Georeferencing – digitizing

Exercise 9 – Rasters

Exercise 10 – Intro to QGIS & CRS

Exercise 11 – Intro to RS (optional; nothing to turn in)

• Part 1 – Geting started with imagery
  • Part 1 optional tasks

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Projections & Coordinate Systems (ArcGIS)

Geocoding Exercises (Not given in Spring ’25)

• Geocoding with QGIS
• Geocoding with ArcGIS

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Preliminary steps/errors (only if you encounter errors in ArcGIS Pro)

Labeling issues in ArcGIS Pro (make better labels)