11/18/22 - APA-CMS Planners Toolkit: GIS Training at UIC (CM | 4)
Updated: Dec 9, 2022
APA-IL Chicago Metro Section is excited to partner with UIC on November 18, 2022 to provide our annual Planner's Toolkit workshop. This will be a hands-on workshop on using ArcGIS Pro and Illustrator together to create presentation-ready maps. The workshop is geared toward people who have touched GIS before (but may not remember what they learned), however it is open to a range of skill levels including novices.
Learning objectives include:
Gain basic familiarity with ArcGIS Pro and differentiate it from other ArcGIS services
Improve your ability to work with different data types and applications to accomplish your data visualization goals
Learn techniques for transforming various data types into spatial (mappable) data
Gain basic familiarity with Adobe Illustrator
Learn techniques for creating more professional-looking maps using graphic design
AGENDA
1. Introductions
2. Overview of ArcGIS Pro project structure (what’s different from ArcMap?)
3. Part I: How to map (almost) anything
a. Presentation on converting non-spatial data into mappable data
b. Exercise: Joining a data table to geographic features in ArcGIS Pro
- Snack Break -
4. Part II: How to make your maps pop
a. Presentation on editing graphics in Adobe Illustrator
b. Importing and editing a GIS map in Illustrator
5. Export and share your map
6. Q & A and feedback survey
QUESTIONS: For program questions, please contact the CMS at cms@ilapa.org
CM CREDITS: 4.0 CM pending
DATE: Fri, November 18, 2022
TIME: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
LOCATION: UIC Urban Data Visualization Lab, 400 S. Peoria Street, Art & Exhibition Hall 2201, Chicago, IL 60607
COST: $105 Member / $120 Non-Member