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Here are a few responses to frequently asked questions about GIS at Harvard School of Public Health. For additional information refer to Harvard Design School GIS Resources, www.esri.com, or the links on this website.

How do I get started using GIS at Harvard School of Public Health?

What happens if the Harvard ESRI license server goes down while I am running ArcGIS?

Where do I find data?

How do I geocode data?

How do I work with different coordinate systems and projections?

How do I get longitudes and latitudes (or other x and y coordinates) from a spatial dataset?

How do I find the centroid of a polygon?

Where can I find code that can be used with the Field Calculator?

How do I display my output from a statistical software package (e.g. SAS, S-Plus, R) on a map?

What is metadata?

How do I import a comma delimited textfile into ArcMap?