GIS Basics
This is a system used to capture, store, analyze, and display geographic data.
What is GIS?
This is Esri’s desktop GIS software used for creating, editing, analyzing, and managing GIS data.
What is ArcGIS Pro?
This geometry type is used for single locations such as fire hydrants, trees, or addresses.
What is a point?
This is Esri’s cloud-based GIS platform used to share maps, layers, apps, and dashboards.
What is ArcGIS Online?
This Esri mobile app is used to collect and edit GIS data in the field.
What is ArcGIS Field Maps?
This type of data represents real-world locations using points, lines, and polygons.
What is vector data?
This pane in ArcGIS Pro is where you can add folders, databases, toolboxes, and other project connections.
What is the Catalog pane?
This geometry type is used for roads, rivers, utility lines, and routes.
What is a line?
This is an interactive online map that can contain layers, pop-ups, bookmarks, and symbology.
What is a web map?
This allows users to collect GIS data without an internet connection and sync it later.
What is offline data collection?
This type of data is made of cells or pixels and is commonly used for imagery, elevation, and temperature data.
What is raster data?
This ArcGIS Pro tool is commonly used to create an area around a feature at a specified distance.
What is Buffer?
These are the columns in an attribute table that store information such as name, type, length, or status.
What are fields?
These windows appear when a user clicks a feature and display selected attribute information.
What are pop-ups?
This ArcGIS app displays maps, charts, indicators, lists, and other visual elements for monitoring data.
What is ArcGIS Dashboards?
This shows the meaning of symbols, colors, and patterns used on a map.
What is a legend?
This tool cuts features using another feature layer, keeping only the parts that overlap.
What is Clip?
This geometry type is used for parcels, buildings, service areas, and boundaries.
What is a polygon?
These saved map extents allow users to quickly zoom to important locations.
What are bookmarks?
This Dashboard element displays a single important number, such as total inspections or total collected points.
What is an indicator?
This is the process of using location-based data to answer questions, identify patterns, or solve problems.
What is spatial analysis?
This type of ArcGIS Pro database stores feature classes, tables, domains, subtypes, and relationship classes.
What is a geodatabase?
These restrict allowed values in a field, helping prevent incorrect data entry during editing.
What are domains?
This ArcGIS Online setting controls who can view an item, such as only the owner, the organization, or everyone.
What is sharing?
This Dashboard element allows users to filter map features by category, status, date, or other fields.
What is a selector?