As far as exercises and such, they have an online virtual campus that have various online courses (some free and some not):
http://training.esri.com/g
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Some years ago ARC/INFO is the leading software in academia and industry. Today I do not know because I left the GIS business for 5 years and I need to know what is the leading software that are commonlly used in Universities and in the industry please?
Also I am looking for tutorials, excercises or quizes with solutions for GIS courses.
If anybody knows anything please help.
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As far as exercises and such, they have an online virtual campus that have various online courses (some free and some not):
http://training.esri.com/g
One more link that may be of some help
http://www.esri.com/indust
Here's where the terminology can get confusing, let me try to explain it (hopefully I can explain this well):
ArcGIS is not really considered an application itself, although it is sometimes interchangeably used with the applications that fall under its umbrella. It really is a term that describes the three main applications that fall under it, these three are ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo.
ArcGIS ArcView is the lowest on the totem pole and pretty much performs the basics of GIS (displaying layers, symbology, etc... It does not perform many features that require editing of data (it does some, but is very limited).
ArcGIS ArcEditor is a little higher up than ArcView and includes everything ArcView plus most editing features.
ArcGIS ArcInfo is the full blown application with everything the previous ones have, plus the ability to create/edit coverages, and a lot more advanced GIS features.
The reason I spoke of ArcView in a previous post is because I am more familiar with it since that is what I use at work (for programming, it has its own library called ArcObjects).
Now one other thing I need to mention is that ESRI does have a much older version of ArcView called ArcView 3.3 which can sometimes get confused with ArcGIS ArcView. Sometimes you will see ArcView 8.x or ArcView 9.x written on a site and this is talking about ArcGIS ArcView. Anything written showing ArcView 3.x (3.0, 3.1,3.2 or 3.3) is the older archaic software and ESRI is trying to phase it out.
Now I'm sure I made this as clear as mud now, but hopefully it helps. :)
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The ESRI ArcGIS products are the most commonly used. There's also AutoDesk Map 3D and MapInfo, which are more industry-specific. You can also find Open-source free GIS products like Grass in use in some places. For the broadest range of opportunities, a solid knowledge ArcGIS is the best choice in my opinion, as there's a huge industry built up around ESRI products and services. For the top-dollar jobs in GIS, I would focus on the software development end of it with ArcObjects and the associated languages.
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by: guidwayPosted on 2006-12-14 at 10:58:29ID: 18141055
Most of the classes I've seen taught are all in ESRI ArcView 8.x/9.x, from my experience, it is definitely the leader in the industry.
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