ESRI ArcGIS is a powerful GIS software with so many features. It’s a popular GIS application in various business. Personally, I have been using ArcGIS for some times. I use it mostly in mineral exploration companies. Compared to MapInfo, ArcGIS has many advantages.

ArcGIS is a suite with several applications in it. It consist of the following individual applications:

• ArcMap
• ArcGlobe
• ArcScene
• ArcGIS Administrator

In this article, I will step by step trying to provide some basic tutorial of ArcGIS. I hope this would be useful for anyone who wants to start learning ArcGIS.

ArcGIS Basic

In this basic section, you will find some basic operating of using ArcMap. ArcMap is the ArcGIS standalone application to display and create maps and data operation.

• Add/Open Shapefile to ArcMap
• Create a New Shapefile in ArcMap
• Create points from CSV file

I will regularly update this page. Please feel free to browse the ArcGIS category on this blog to find more ArcGIS tutorials.