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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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, AGO, XY, GPS

Exercise 8 – Georeferencing – digitizing historical map

Exercise 9 – Rasters


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

Labeling issues in ArcGIS Pro (make better labels)