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GIS and Geospatial Technologies: ArcGIS Desktop

This guide provides GIS tutorials, data, books, course-specific GIS guides and other geospatial related information that might be of interest.

ArcGIS Desktop

ESRI will retire ArcMap (the old ArcGIS Desktop version) by March 2026We highly recommend all users using ArcGIS Pro and migrate data from ArcMap to Pro soon if not yet. We provide ArcMap licenses conditionally. Please submit a request to Software Central (SoftwareCentral@ucla.edu) to state the necessity of using ArcGIS Desktop

The following are useful instructions regarding switching from ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap) to ArcGIS Pro: