Introduction to GIS - Learn GIS the easy way
Hello everybody. Welcome to my course. I will try to help you create your first map using a combination of software and skills.
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I have been studying GIS for about 6 years, graduated my Cartography bachelor degree and Geomatics master degree, i made a transportation map that was distributed in over 10000 copies, created some web-gis project and have some commercial experience working on GIS data validation. I am also studying for a Phd
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In this first part of the video i will simply explain what GIS stands for, how and where you can use GIS. In the second part of the video i will help you to download free, open-source software, QGIS and Inkscape.
Links:
Wikipedia description of GIS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geograp...
GIS wiki forum
http://wiki.gis.com/wiki/index.php/Ma...
QGIS:
www.qgis.org
All downloads: qgis.org/downloads/
Documentation: http://www.qgis.org/en/docs/index.html
GIS Stackexchange: http://gis.stackexchange.com/
Inkscape:
https://inkscape.org/en/download/
https://inkscape.org/en/release/0.91/
Principles of Geographic Information Systems, O Huisman, R. A. de By, 2009, ITC, Enschede, https://www.itc.nl/library/papers_200...
Free GIS books: https://www.gislounge.com/free-gis-bo...
Fundamentals of Geographic Information System , Y.
Murayama, R. C. Estoque, 2010,
http://giswin.geo.tsukuba.ac.jp/sis/t...
Credits:
Bensound, http://www.bensound.com
Recommendation: Best listened to with headsets.