Open Educational Resources
Document Type
Textbook
Publication Date
8-2013
Abstract
This tutorial was created to accompany the GIS Practicum, a day-long workshop offered by the Newman Library at Baruch College CUNY that introduces participants to geographic information systems (GIS) using the open source software QGIS. The practicum introduces GIS as a concept for envisioning information and as a tool for conducting geographic analyses and creating maps. Participants learn how to navigate a GIS interface, how to prepare layers and conduct a basic geographic analysis, and how to create thematic maps. This tutorial was written using QGIS version 1.8 "Lisboa", a cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) desktop GIS software package.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Course data
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Databases and Information Systems Commons, Demography, Population, and Ecology Commons, Geographic Information Sciences Commons, Human Geography Commons, Social Statistics Commons
Comments
This 4th edition of the tutorial uses QGIS 1.8 Lisboa, which was released in June 2012 and is available for download from the QGIS webiste at http://qgis.org/en/site/. The course data is available for download at the bottom of this page.