Simple GIS Client Software Tutorials
Performing Analytics in Simple GIS Client
Welcome to the Simple GIS Tutorials page. Simple GIS contains many powerful analytic tools to leverage against your data. This page contains tutorials demonstrating generating heatmaps, buffering, calculated fields, elevation profiles, and proximity analysis.
Please Note
Many of the tutorials here were created on version 13 or earlier versions of Simple GIS Client. While many of the principles remain the same, several of the dialogs have been re-designed in version 14 and may look different than the ones shown in these tutorials. We will be updating with new tutorials soon.
Generating Heat Maps in Simple GIS
Description
- This tutorial covers the basics of generating Heat Maps within Simple GIS. Users can generate heat maps using either a kernel density algorithm or interpolative inverse distance weighting algorithm.
View a descriptive tutorial here or the video tutorial to the left.
Generating Buffers in Simple GIS CLient
Description
This video GIS tutorial will demonstrate creating buffers in a Simple GIS Client project to perform sophisticated spatial analysis. It will also cover creating drive time/distance rings.
Creating Calculated Fields in Simple GIS Client
Description
- This video GIS tutorial will demonstrate creating calculated fields in a feature layer's attribute table using the Calculated Field Expression builder.
Topics Covered
- Creating Drive Time Rings with Census Data
- Adding a calculated field to normalize field values
- Using the Data Explorer to visualize results
Viewing Elevation Profiles in Simple GIS Client
Description
- This video GIS tutorial will demonstrate viewing elevation profiles from raster digital elevation models in Tiff or DEM format. This video also demonstrates importing tracks and waypoints from a GPX file and viewing the elevation profile of this data.
Topics Covered
- Viewing elevation profile of a line drawn along a raster digital elevation model.
- Importing GPX files
- Using the Elevation Profile tool to view the elevation profile of GPX tracks or points.
Using Cut/Fill Calculation Tool
Description
- This video demonstrates the new Cut/Fill Calculation tool available in version 15.5 of Simple GIS Client. This tool allows users to estimate cut/fill volumes required to achieve a desired elevation for an area bounded by a polygon boundary as defined by the user. The tool works in conjunction with elevation datasets such as DEM or Lidar data from the USGS in Geotiff or DEM format and allows users to perform preliminary site analysis.
Using the Proximity Analysis Tool in Simple GIS CLient
Description
This video demonstrates the improved Proximity Analysis tool available in Simple GIS Client version 14 and later. With this tool users can perform analysis to answer questions such as "How many customers are located with 5 miles of my store location and what is the average distance between my store location and customers?" In addition, the new proximity analysis tool allows you to classify and group results. For example, if you had different customer types, you could specify a grouping on your analysis results to answer the same question for each type of customer as well as for the total customer population.
Topics Covered
- 0:00 Introduction
- 2:12 Locating the Proximity Analysis Menu
- 2:38 Specifying Layers for Analysis
- 5:10 Specifying Search Distance and Number of Intervals for Analysis
- 6:39 Specifying Data Grouping for Results
- 8:40 Specifying Output Filename for New Shapefile to Hold Results
- 9:30 Conducting Analysis and Specifying Output for Excel Report
- 10:30 Overview of Excel Report
- 13:24 Adding Shapefile Containing Results as New Layer to Map
Creating Hillshade Imagery in Simple GIS Client
Description
This video tutorial demnstrates creating a hillshade image from a raster elevation dataset. It discusses the various parameters used to create a hillshade image suzh as azimuth, altitude, and z scaling factor.
Configuring Data Explorer Panel in Simple GIS Client
Description
This GIS video tutorial will demonstrate configuring and using the improved Data Explorer tool available in Simple GIS Client version 13.1
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