Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Software: An Open Source Lecture #GIS #Maps

This video provides a tutorial of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. If you are new to GIS, this video will show what GIS is and what it can and cannot do.

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/#datasets

Topics discussed in the video include spatial data and asset management, imagery and remote sensing data querying and table joining, spatial analysis, GIS programming and application programming interfaces (APIs), spatial modeling, cartography, visualization, and map production, animation and 3D, mobile GIS and field data collection, and limitations of GIS.

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

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