Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to obtain, install, and activate a 60-day trial of ArcGIS for Desktop Advanced Single Use version.

After installing this, you explored some publicly available data from NaturalEarth Data using the main ArcGIS for Desktop applications: ArcCatalog and ArcMap. In ArcCatalog, you learned how to explore the geometry and attributes of your spatial data. In ArcMap, you learned two different ways to add spatial data as layers to ArcMap. You used the Identify tool in conjunction with Find and Go To XY tools to access information about two different countries.

In the next chapter, we will explore the geographic principles, such as geodetic datum and coordinate reference systems, and we will learn to work with different map projections.