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:
www.qgis.org
Data:
The Mumbai India datasets - The data sets used in the video, available for free to download:
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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Thanks!
Brian Tomaszewski, Ph.D.
@bangeobrian

[@preciousogunbekun2023]

Very explicit, thank you

[@Mybeautyden]

Amazing thank you, have started a degree and you explain this so clearly.

[@roekash1367]

very clear thank you

[@xtaru9301]

ty so much

[@GIScienceRIT]

My pleasure I'm glad you found the video useful and thank you for your comment

[@dipeshsharma1037]

Sound goes extremely low at 2:40..In one ear... pls help fix.. thank you..

[@GIScienceRIT]

I double checked - sounds fine on my end..

[@johng5295]

No sound goes on and off.

[@GIScienceRIT]

Not sure.. I hear sound playing, is there a particular time you cannot hear sound?