Mapping Help

[963KM]

i am looking for somebody with knowledge in mapping software or GIS, i have a assignment for university which involves drawing a grid over South Africa (preferably a 16 by 16 or 20X20) nothing too detailed, and then working out bird diversity per cell, (that i do manually as he has provided the numbers) , the professor explained to us how to do this manually using colour pencils however he also told us that we should find new ways to do the assignment, i have had some experience with ArcMap GIS software but dont really know how i would go about over laying a Grid on a Map in GIS and assigning values per grid square, i know this is a long shot but if some one could explain to me or guide me to a website i might be able to learn this life skill.

Basically i want help to make something like this


http://imgur.com/GO7zHVR



but with an empty SA where i will be able to colour each square myself (based on the number of different bird species that i have ) maybe even using paint or something like that. All and any advice and help will be much appreciated

[MattDN93]

Hey there!

Thanks for posting on the forum! I have nearly no experience with ArcGIS but we'll put a request out on our Facebook page with a link to your post, I'm sure there'll be experts around to help soon

Perhaps you'd want to take a look at these links which seem to address what you're asking?







I'll update this post soon or someone should reply here if they're better able to help.

Good luck