ArcGIS tutorials
This topic provides a set of links to a collection of various ArcGIS tutorials used to perform a number of common tasks in ArcGIS. Find the tutorial that you would like to work through by clicking the links in the tables below.
To work through the ArcGIS Desktop tutorials, you need to install the tutorial data from the ArcGIS Desktop Tutorial Data setup, which is part of the ArcGIS Desktop installation download or media. If the tutorial data has been installed on your system, look for it in C:\arcgis\ArcTutor (the default installation location). In many cases, you will need write access to that location to perform the tutorial.
The ArcGIS Server Installation does not include tutorial data. Most of the ArcGIS Server tutorials are written in a generic way so that you can follow the steps using your own datasets.
Keep in mind that these tutorials are only a starting point for you to learn about ArcGIS. You can find additional information, help, and training at the ArcGIS Resource Center.
ArcGIS Desktop application tutorials
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Database servers | This tutorial shows you how to use ArcGIS Desktop to use database servers (instances of SQL Server Express) and the geodatabases you create on the database servers to store, access, and edit GIS data. An ArcEditor or ArcInfo license is required to complete the tutorial. |
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Editing | In this tutorial, you'll learn the basics of the editing environment in ArcMap, including creating new features on the map; updating attribute values; utilizing snapping while editing, creating, and editing annotation; using topology to maintain spatial integrity; and performing spatial adjustments on your data. |
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Editing parcel fabrics | In this tutorial, you will learn how to create, manage, and edit a parcel fabric. An ArcEditor or ArcInfo license is required to complete the tutorial. |
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Finding a route | In this tutorial, you'll be introduced to the Find Route dialog box. The tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to use the route-finding functionality that it offers. | |
Geocoding | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create and manage address locators and how to use them to find the location of an individual address or table of addresses. | |
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Geodatabases | In this tutorial, you'll learn to build geodatabases that include relationship classes, subtypes, attribute domains, topology, geometric networks, and feature-linked annotation. An ArcEditor or ArcInfo license is required to complete the tutorial. |
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Geoprocessing service examples | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create geoprocessing services for ArcGIS Server. |
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Linear referencing | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create, manage, display, query, and analyze data whose relative position has been modeled along a linear feature. |
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ModelBuilder—Executing tools | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use ModelBuilder to execute a sequence of tools. | |
ModelBuilder—Creating tools | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a useful tool from a model. The model can then be run using its dialog box. | |
NetCDF | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a raster layer from a netCDF file, change the display, and analyze temporal temperature data. | |
Rasters and images | In this tutorial, there are exercises to help you learn how to build mosaic datasets, the decisions you need to consider for your data, and the uses of the mosaic dataset. | |
Representations | In this tutorial, you will be introduced to representations that allow you to symbolize geographic features with a set of rules that are stored with your data in the geodatabase. Representation rules can create and draw dynamic geometry that differs from the feature shape, allowing a complex depiction of features without impacting the spatial integrity of your data. Representations provide greater control over the precision and definition of the symbolization of your data. An ArcEditor or ArcInfo license is required to complete the tutorial. |
ArcGIS Desktop extension tutorials
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3D Analyst | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to drape images and features over a terrain surface, extrude points and polygons, interpolate a surface from points, build a TIN and a terrain dataset from features, create an animation, and navigate in ArcScene and ArcGlobe. |
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ArcScan for ArcGIS | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to generate vector data from rasters, including how to use the cell selection and raster snapping tools, perform simple raster editing and automatic vectorization, and interactively trace raster cells. |
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Data Interoperability | In this tutorial, you will learn how to directly read and analyze the additional data formats supported by Data Interoperability; translate data between various formats using Quick Import and Quick Export tools; transform data schemas using Custom Import, Custom Export, and Custom Formats; and incorporate all these functions into your geoprocessing models. |
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Geostatistical Analyst | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to represent and explore data and detect trends and directional influences, perform diagnostic tests, evaluate and model spatial autocorrelation, build interpolation models using ordinary and indicator kriging, compare the results of these models, and create maps using the output surfaces. |
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Maplex for ArcGIS | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to design and create publication-quality cartographic labels for maps using the Maplex for ArcGIS extension. |
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Network Analyst | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create network datasets and use them to find routes, find closest features on a network, calculate service areas and origin-destination cost matrices, solve location-allocation and vehicle routing problems, and build a model for route analysis. |
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Schematics | The Schematics in ArcMap tutorials are a good starting point for learning about the ArcGIS Schematics extension, which provides simplified representations of networks intended to explain their structure and make the way they operate understandable. The Schematics configuration tutorials focus on Schematics configuration using Schematic Dataset Editor. |
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Spatial Analyst | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to prepare, query, and analyze both feature and raster data. You will perform a suitability analysis and a cost distance analysis and make a site selection. |
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Tracking Analyst | In this tutorial, you'll learn how ArcGIS Tracking Analyst can be used to analyze the movement of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. The tutorial will introduce you to several features Tracking Analyst provides for symbolizing, visualizing, and analyzing temporal data. |
ArcGIS Server tutorials
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Caching | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to design a map for caching, create the map cache, and view it in a client Web application. |
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Geoprocessing services | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to build a simple model in ModelBuilder and publish it to ArcGIS Server. You'll then create a Web application in ArcGIS Server .NET Manager with a geoprocessing task that uses your service. |
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Image services | This tutorial gives you the basic steps you'll need to publish raster data to ArcGIS Server as an image service. |
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KML services | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to make a 3D KML service that extrudes vector features based on an attribute such as population. |
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Map services | This tutorial gives you the essential steps you need to publish a map document to ArcGIS Server as a map service. |
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Network analysis services | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to add a network dataset to a map and publish it to ArcGIS Server. You'll then connect to your new network analysis service using the Find Route dialog box in ArcMap. |
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Web applications | This tutorial gives you the essential steps you need to create a Web application in ArcGIS Server .NET Manager. |
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Web editing | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to expose your GIS data for Web editing using ArcSDE and Microsoft SQL Server Express. You'll then publish a map to ArcGIS Server containing data you want to edit. Finally, you'll use ArcGIS Server .NET Manager to create a Web application with an out-of-the-box Editing task. |
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WFS | In this tutorial, you'll use ArcGIS Server to expose your vector GIS data through Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC), Web Feature Service (WFS) specifications. |
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WFS-T | In this tutorial, you'll use ArcGIS Server to publish a WFS service with transactions enabled (WFS-T), which can be used in Web editing workflows. | |
WMS | This tutorial gives you the essential steps you need to publish a map document through OGC Web Map Service (WMS) specifications using ArcGIS Server. |