Introduction to Free/Libre and Open Source GIS v.1.0

Welcome to the "Introduction to Free/Libre and Open Source Geographic Information Systems" class. This course was designed and taught in UMass Amherst, in 2007.

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All content below is provided on this wiki is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License and is being developed as part of the [Open Geospatial Foundation's educational resources effort]. This means that users are free to copy and share this material with others.

We intend to make this available in summer 2007 to the OSGeo community. Prior to this, we ask that you contact us first if you would like to edit or make a new derivative of this content. Email address: cschweik AT pubpol DOT umass DOT edu).

Exercise: Web GIS data resources: US and global
===Exercise: An example of regional web resources: Massachusetts, USA digital data===

Exercise: Mapping GPS points with QGIS and adding attribute data
==== Assignment: Mapping GPS points with QGIS and adding attribute data====

GIS DATABASES
===Exercise: Using data layers from Spatial Data Engines (SDE): PostgreSQL and PostGIS===

===Exercise: [http://linuxlab.sbs.umass.edu/intro-fossgis-umass/index.php?title=Analyzing_attribute_data_with_SQL._%28part_I:_SELECT_statements%29 Analyzing attribute data with SQL. (part I: SELECT statements)] ===

===Exercise: [http://linuxlab.sbs.umass.edu/intro-fossgis-umass/index.php?title=Analyzing_attribute_data_with_SQL._%28part_2:_Joining_tables%29 Analyzing attribute data with SQL. (part 2: Joining tables)] ===

Assignment: Computing land use change with SQL (select query)
==== Assignment: [http://linuxlab.sbs.umass.edu/intro-fossgis-umass/index.php?title=Assignment:_Creating_a_thematic_map_with_QGIS_using_non-spatial_table_with_statistical_data. Creating a thematic map with QGIS using non-spatial table with statistical data.] ====

Exercise: FOSS as a collaborative paradigm and contributing to FOSS projects
====Assignment: Contributing to QGIS or GRASS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Support for the development of this course was provided by:

The [The Department of Natural Resources Conservation], [The Center for Public Policy and Administration], and [The National Center for Digital Government], all at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

All datasets use information from [The Massachusetts Office of Geographic and Environmental Information (MassGIS)]

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number NSFIIS 0447623 and generous support from the [IBM Corporation's Academic Initiative]. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF) or the units above.