Top 5 Tips & Tricks for ArcGIS Pro - Change Your GIS Life! 

Great to hear!!

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I'm using a Windows 10 lap top with 32GB of ram, a 500GB SSD, and Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8665U CPU @ 1.90GHz 2.11 GHz. :)

Great question. When you download table data from the USA Census Bureau, the metadata comes with the files in the download. So you can read what each one of the column headers mean. :)

No jumping off bridges, please hang in there. I totally understand. It sounds like you need training and your work should help you get trained. You can check out a fuller course I teach at LinkedIn Learning which should help: tinyurl.com/c3vy6mrt. It takes times, learning never stops, and you can do this.

My vid on first day with ArcGIS Pro might help too. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vg3j6130jtU.htmlsi=zeble7dLquVd8aFv

I have no desire to learn about GIS. no one understands why we collect data. The data they give us is shady. They don't get it...I dont get it... no one really cares.... and yet they spend 250k a year keeping Arc going. The bridge is getting closer.

@@MapYoda sorry for the short reply. I need to tell you my situation at work so you understand. I work for a county in Washington State. 4 years ago I applied for a job that mentioned zero about GIS. I got the job and on day one no one knew why I was there or what I should be doing. Because I work in the planning department I was told I better learn GIS. I was introduced to 35 years of developed mapping on day 2 of my job. I can remember when I left work that day, I puked on the way home, thinking....wtf did I get myself into. Day 3... I verbally told everyone I have zero experience with GIS and I dont know what it is or what I'm supposed to do with it. For 4 years now I have struggled to grasp the concept of why its even in the office. No one ever asks us questions, asks us for information. Its like we don't even exist. Now 2 weeks ago ARCPRO was installed on my machine and I am utterly lost. I have no experience with any of this stuff. Nothing. I sit there all day... 5 days a week... pretending I know wtc I am doing. I make myself look busy... try to help out whomever with what I can and thats all I can offer. There is no amount of training that will help me. This has been developed for 35 years. The GIS tech is set to retire in January and they are trying to hire but no one is applying. This form of mapping isn't easy... its beyond a normal person's way of thinking. I have been lost for 4 years and will continue to be lost until they either dump the entire GIS mentality or I jump off a bridge. No one ever mentions how brutally hard this GIS world is on these posts. I dont understand why anyone would want to mentally murder their brains either. Its not worth the money.

winGis is old program from 2003 year AND that program works in .amp format WinGis 2003 Software has long been out of support the New Software Like ArcGIS or QGis And that type of file .amp file winGis cannot be translated into any of the more modern ones !? Exp. shp, .dxf, .gpx, .mif ….. My questions is Maybe that file .amp can be converted it to the new file shp.Dft gpx. ….

Hi @bajonivideos, I'm not sure about that conversion. Here are all the format extensions available with the Interoperability Extension for ArcGIS Pro 3.0 - pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/3.0/help/data/data-interoperability/supported-formats-with-the-data-interoperability-extension.htm.

@@MapYoda file in this software are .amp That file don’t support newer software But i hear that is possible to conver.amp to shp, .dxf, .gpx, .mif I need help 😁

You are welcome.

I love it so much!

I hear you. Hang in there if you are called to keep going with GIS and know you are not alone. GIS isn't meant to be easy, but it is powerful. It is more than just software. When my students struggle, it's primarily because of the is disconnect they have with spatial concepts rooted in geographic theory. Anyone can click buttons, but not everyone can make a spatial data visualization situated in real spatial theories. You can make a mapping software for all, but if you want to construct software pathway algorithms that serve as the foundation and advancement for spatial analysis, then it's complicated. I have my critiques of the ESRI software too, but any serious GIS software will be tightly coupled with geography, which makes it hard. ArcPro and the entire ESRI software ecosystem isn't perfect, but there is no equivalent and nothing that can match the richness and depth of what can be done with it. GIS is hard for many people, but that isn't the fault of ESRI. Spatial thinking and geographic theory is an entire academic discipline from which much of the ArcPro works to operationalize. Accept my best for you.

What is your GIS question?

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