Core Concepts for Geographic Information Systems (GIS): An Open Source Lecture

This short video intended for people who are new to learning about GIS software and may be limited in the amount of time to learn about some important GIS background concepts.

Topics discussed in this video include map projections, coordinate systems, GIS data models, basic map concepts and cartography ideas.

Free and open source GIS software and data is used in the video.

This means you can start right away with using GIS without having to purchase software or find data.

Follow these links to access to the software and data sets used in the video:

Software:

QGIS - The free and open source GIS software used in the video:

https://www.qgis.org

Data:

The Mumbai India datasets – The data sets used in the video, available for free to download:

http://gisfordisastermanagement.com/#...

A demonstration of GIS software concepts is also provided to show you what GIS software looks like in practice.

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Brian Tomaszewski, Ph.D.
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