These tutorials walk you through the process of creating GIS resources, step-by-step, while also orienting you to the capabilities of ArcGIS desktop software. After completing the tutorials and creating one of our resource shapefiles, you will be able to identify and digitize your own archival data sets and maps into shapefiles. These tutorials were made using ArcGIS 9.3.1. If you are using a different version, you may find a few buttons in slightly different places, but they should be more or less the same processes. If you have any questions, please email me at lwinling [AT] gmail.com.
See the first tutorials on (1) Digitizing elections data in Excel
Excel Data Tutorial from LaDale Winling on Vimeo.
(2) Working with shapefiles and georeferencing historic maps
Shapefiles and ArcMap Georeferencing from LaDale Winling on Vimeo.
(3) Creating new layers and polygons
Creating a Simple Congressional District Using New Layers and Polygons from LaDale Winling on Vimeo.
(4) Creating complicated polygons and combining them for a Congressional District Part 1.
Complicated Congressional District 1 from LaDale Winling on Vimeo.
(5) Creating complicated polygons and combining them for a Congressional District Part 2.
Complicated Congressional District 2 from LaDale Winling on Vimeo.
(6) Creating complicated polygons and combining them for a Congressional District Part 3.
Complicated Congressional District 3 from LaDale Winling on Vimeo.
(7) Creating map data, performing joins, and exporting
Map Data, Joins, and Exporting from LaDale Winling on Vimeo.