To connect a scanned map with other geographical data the map needs to be refrenced. Tutorial 1: how to georeference a scanned map in ArcGIS? objective Therefore we will present you some basic tutorials for learning an enjoying ArcGIS: Being widely used and the sheer amount of functions and add-ons are maybe the important causes for being a big-player at universities as well. ArcGIS is a geographic-information-system (GIS) developed by ESRI.