ArcGIS & Associated Esri products

This guide is meant to provide information about Dartmouth's site license for Esri products such as ArcGIS and ArcGIS Online. This information is available on different pages in other guides, but this guide pulls all of that information together in one place.

If you have any questions, you can always contact Lucinda M. Hall in the Evans Map Room or Stephen Gaughan in Research Computing.

ArcMap, the popular geographic information systems (GIS) software, will be replaced by ArcGIS Pro through a phased upgrade plan over the next few years.  Both Dartmouth College Library and Research Computing - ITC are happy to help you transition your GIS workflows for research and teaching.  

Esri, the company that makes both ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro also have resources available to guide us all through this process.  Here are a few helpful links:

Introductory GIS | Modern GIS Curriculum & Lectures in Higher Education

Thousands of cities, agencies, nonprofits, and businesses depend on Web GIS. Moving the locus of GIS from the desktop to the web makes it mobile, automated, responsive, interconnected, cloud based, and configurable—these themes are an integral part of a modern GIS curriculum.

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Teaching (and research using) GIS - Shifting to Modern GIS

Instead, the GIS analysts for the city engaged with the public, crowdsourced data, and built interactive web applications. The team worked with a group of volunteers that drove through the city and recorded temperatures to allow users to view heat islands, canopy, and demographics in one public map.

www.esri.com

You can watch this taped seminar showing features in ArcGIS Pro and explaining how you can transition your work to the Pro version. You will need to sign in using your Dartmouth credentials to see the video.

Looking for the installed version of ArcGIS software? Click here.

Looking for ArcGIS Online? Click here.

Looking for data to use in ArcGIS software? Click here.

Looking for Remote Sensing? Click here.

Looking for maps? Click here.

Looking for Geography? Click here.

Looking for open source GIS software? Click here.

Looking for open source, online GIS software? Click here.