Training Blogs

Tip 24: Successful Editing

03/04/2013
For anyone new to ArcGIS, using the editing tools can initially appear a little trick...

Tip 23: Loading Grids to ArcGIS

19/02/2013
As geoscientists, we need to bring into ArcGIS various types of gridded data, includi...

Tip 22: Using Raster Catalogs

03/01/2013
Using a Raster Catalog in ArcCatalog You can use a Raster Catalog to store high volu...

Tip 21: Georeferencing Vector Data

30/03/2012
Georeferencing images such as scanned maps are a common way of importing legacy or pa...

Tip 20: ArcGIS 10 Editing Sessions

13/03/2012
As oil and gas companies upgrade their ArcGIS applications from ArcGIS 9 to ArcGIS 10...

Tip 19: Using Buffers to Model Lateral Migration

03/10/2011
We often use ArcGIS Desktop’s buffer tool simply to select areas within set dis...

Tip 18: Selecting From Multiple Areas

03/08/2011
Selecting features in ArcMap is usually pretty straightforward, particularly when the...

Tip 17: Reselecting Highlighted Features

03/06/2011
In ArcGIS Desktop selecting features is often an essential step before copying, modif...

Tip 16: Polygon Editing

12/05/2011
We often need to use editing tools for digitising a new object such as a point, line ...

Tip 15: Exporting PDFs

15/04/2011
Although there are numerous formats for exporting your finished map to, Portable Docu...

Tip 14: Exporting a Map with Geospatial Location

01/03/2011
We spend a lot of time working on our GIS analysis and then creating maps of our resu...

Tip 13: Hyperlinking to Document Pages

02/02/2011
Hyperlinking allows users to establish a connection from one information source to an...

Tip 12: Coordinates and ArcGIS

04/11/2010
Geographic data is comprised of geographic features – such as wells, fields or ...

Tip 11: ESRI Tips and Shortcuts

08/07/2010
If you're an ArcGIS Desktop user you might be interested to know that there are a num...

Tip 10: ESRI Symbols Fonts

05/07/2010
Recently someone asked me how to use ESRI well symbols for bullets in MS Word documen...

Tip 9: Relative Paths

05/05/2010
When you start up a new ArcMap document, you almost immediately and probably unknowin...

Tip 8: Geoprocessing Masks

27/04/2010
In GIS terminology a ‘mask’ is a spatial layer that one uses to limit the...

Tip 7: Convert Date Formats

15/02/2010
We sometimes find datasets containing attribute data that we can’t use effectiv...

Tip 6: Animation in ArcGIS Desktop

28/01/2010
With 48 toolbars at version 9.3.1 ArcGIS Desktop has a lot of hidden functionality th...

How Big is your Training Gain? Part 2

21/01/2010
In part 1 of “How big is your training gain?”, I provided a simple spread...

Tip 5: GDB Attribute Domains

11/01/2010
Attribute Domains for ArcGIS File Geodatabases are arguably the most important d...

How Big is your Training Gain? Part 1

07/01/2010
Exprodat is focused on helping our clients in the petroleum sector make better use of...

Tip 4: Joins and Relates

06/11/2009
One of the main issues that users seem to need a bit of help with in ArcGIS Desktop i...

Tip 3: Getting Help

03/11/2009
One of the problems I faced when starting to use GIS was that there was so much to le...

Tip 2: Tabular XY Data

02/10/2009
The second in our series of Petroleum GIS Tips where members of our training team exp...

Tip 1: Georeferencing

15/09/2009
Welcome to the first of our Petroleum GIS Tips series, where members of our training ...

The Investment that Keeps on Giving

14/09/2009
At Exprodat we often have to communicate the value of training, especially when times...