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Introduction to Manifold GIS 6, 7, and 8
Traditional 2-day Introductory GIS training typically costs over $1,000 plus travel expenses, and often operates at a pace too slow or too fast for your learning style. As you’ve already heard, Manifold is not your traditional GIS, and THIS is not your traditional GIS training. Instead, we use an innovative training approach by providing video tutorials that allow you to work alongside our trainers when learning Manifold GIS 6.0, 7.00, or 8.
You can use our training to work at your own pace, rewinding or fast forwarding the video in the comfort of your own home, while our video instructor guides you through each step of the process.
The 6.0 training course uses case based learning techniques where you will create a GIS project from start to finish, beginning with data collection and creation, spatial analysis, and finishing with a final cartographic map and Internet Map Server web page. The 7.00 training course is an entire dump truck of information that amounts to almost 4 days of training!!
Course Outline Introduction to Manifold 8
The course is broken into over 20 separate lessons, covering nearly 100 individual topics. The following is an abbreviated description of the topics covered:
Introduction
What is a GIS
What is Manifold
Basic Concepts of GIS
How we represent geographic data
What a GIS can do
Projects
Opening a project
Creating a new project
Setting Options
Manifold Interface
Basic Panes
Project
Viewbots
Views
Layers
Basic Menus
File
Edit
Components
Types of Components
Local Components
Linked Components
Drawings
What are drawings
How to create a new drawing
Drawing Fundamentals
Menus, Selections
Linked Drawings
Regular vs. Linked Drawings
Drawings Linked from Geometry
Drawings Linked from Queries
Drawings Linked from Geocoding
Formatting Drawings
Area Formatting
Line Formatting
Overlapping layers
Thematic Formatting
Editing Drawings
Cut, copy, paste
Adding points, lines, and areas
Adding shapes
Instant Data
Editing Objects
Snap Features
Autocompletion
Shared Edits
Coordinate Geometry
Dissolve
Simplify
Segmentize
Transform Drawing Objects
Border Buffers
Boundaries
Bounded Areas
Buffers
Centroids (Inner)
Clip with Intersect
Convex Hull
Explode
Gabriel Network
Intersect Lines
Intersect Lines
Join Lines
Normalize Topology
Select Adjacent to
Select Contained within
Select Containing
Select Intersecting
Select Shortest Path
Spline
Split With
Images
Image Fundamentals
Creating a new image
Image menus
Importing Images
Georegistering an Image
Linked Images
Compressed Images
ECWP Image Servers
Google, Terraserver, Yahoo!
Surfaces
Surface Fundamentals
Importing Surfaces
Linked Surfaces
Surface Menu
Contours
Transforms
Terrains
Terrain Fundamentals
Overlays
Area Overlays
Navigating Terrains
Maps
Map Fundamentals
Creating a new map
Projections and maps
Map Layers
Opacity
Restrictions
Merging layers
Creating Images
Drawing Menu in Maps
Spatial Overlay
Topology Overlay
(Identify, Intersection, Union
Labels
Label Fundamentals
Creating Labels
Formatting Labels
Repositioning Labels
Tables
Table Fundamentals
Tables and Drawings
Intrinsic Values
Importing and Linking Tables
View Menu
Table Menu
Query Tool
Editing and Querying Tables
Query Tool
Transform Tool
Edit Data in Tables
Layouts
Layout Fundamentals
Adding Elements to Layouts
Improving Manifold Performance
Linked Images
Coordinate precision
Zoom Dependencies
Simplify drawings
Normalize topology
On-the-fly projections
Internet Map Server
Overview
Creating a web site
Adding queries to a web site
SQL Queries in IMS
Course Outline for Introduction to 6.0
Scenario: You will create a GIS project from start to finish by bringing in data from multiple sources (imagery, surfaces, database tables, vector drawings), geo-registering a land use interpretation, perform heads-up digitizing of the interpreted landcover, evaluate land cover change between 1968 and 1995, perform an accuracy assessment of the landcover map, quantify the landcover within a stream buffer, produce a final cartographic map and Internet Map Server application of the study area, and a 3D terrain visualization.
The course is broken into 13 separate lessons. The following is a short description of the course:
Data Preparation and Creation
 Lesson 1: The User Interface
Exporing menus: File, View, Options
Exploring Toolbars: main, format, selection, tools, transform and query;
Exploring panes: Project
Lesson 2: Getting Data into Manifold
Importing and exporting drawings, tables, surfaces, images,
Coordinate system definition, projection transformation, on-the-fly
projections.
Lesson 3: Improving System Performance
Coordinate precision, orthoganize data, zoom dependencies,
simplify data, project to map, nomalize topology
Lesson 4: Working with Databases
Importing and linking tables, adding and relating columns, active columns,
query and transform toolbar, table design, transfer rules
Lesson 5: Georegistration
Importing scanned images, adding control points, georegistration
of images, viewing residual errors.
Lesson 6: Creating Data (digitizing)
Creating new drawings, discreet polygon digitizing, spaghetti digitizing,
normalizing topology, creating bounded areas, editing data,
altering databases, adding attributes
Data Analysis
Lesson 7: Basic Analysis Tools
Spatial Overlay; Topology Overlay; Viewbots, SQL, SQL and
spatial operators
Lesson 8: Overlaying Spatial Data
Data elimination, saved selections, topology overlay,
dissolving features, setting transfer rules, SQL pivot tables, change
analysis, integration with Excel.
Lesson 9: Accuracy Assessment
Import GPS data, point in polygon overlay, SQL transform table,
integration with Excel, computing overall accuracy.
Lesson 10: Taking Spatial Analysis Further
Importing data, Quantify % landuse, clip features, buffer geographic
features, SQL analysis, quantify selected geometry within buffers.
Data Presentation
Lesson 11: Cartographic Composition
Clipping data, creating cartographic layouts and elements,
coordinate grids
Lesson 12: Creating an Internet Map Server Application
Overlaying data, modifying database tables, SQL parameterized
queries, exporting web pages
Lesson 13: Terrain Mapping
Import a USGS DEM, crop a DEM, create a 3D terrain,
overlay 2D objects on terrain, navigate over terrain.
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