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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GIS FUNDAMENTALS
Exercise: QGIS Overview
Assignment: Intro to QGIS
Assignment: GIS Literature Review
Exercise: Installing QGIS
GIS INPUT METHODS
Exercise: Web GIS data resources: US and global
Exercise: An example of regional web resources: Massachusetts, USA digital data
Assignment: Searching, downloading and viewing GIS data in QGIS
Exercise: Georeferencing with QGIS
Assignment: Georeferencing practice
Exercise: Online Digitizing and Adding Attribute Data using QGIS
Assignment: On-screen digitizing practice
Exercise: GPS Field exercise (for people with a GPS)
Exercise: Mapping GPS points with QGIS and adding attribute data
Assignment: Mapping GPS points with QGIS and adding attribute data
Extra Credit: Using GPX formatted GPS data
GIS DATABASES
Exercise: Using data layers from Spatial Data Engines (SDE): PostgreSQL and PostGIS
Exercise: Analyzing attribute data with SQL. (part I: SELECT statements)
Exercise: Analyzing attribute data with SQL. (part 2: Joining tables)
Exercise: Analyzing attribute data with SQL .(part 3: aggregate functions)
Exercise: Integrating spatial and non-spatial data
Assignment: Computing land use change with SQL (select query)
Assignment: Creating a thematic map with QGIS using non-spatial table with statistical data.
Exercise: Installing client software to work with SDE
Exercise: Installing PostgreSQL/PostGIS database
GIS-BASED ANALYSIS
Exercise: Making maps in QGIS
Exercise: Analysis using the QGIS GRASS plug-in. Plug-in basics.
Assignment: GRASS Plug-in basics
Exercise: Select by location queries/neighborhood analysis
Assignment: Practice with select by location queries
Exercise: Site selection 1: Raster Analysis
Exercise: Site selection 2: Vector Analysis
Assignment 10: Raster analysis practice
Assignment 11: Vector analysis practice
CONTRIBUTING TO FOSS GIS
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.