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.

Video Chapters:

0:00:00 Start
0:00:16 Introduction - Video Topics Overview
0:01:36 Learning Objectives
0:02:36 What is GIS?
0:03:22 Parts of GIS
0:05:07 Organizing the World Geographically: Map Layers
0:05:07 What Can You Do (and Not Do) with GIS Software?
0:05:07 Data and Spatial Asset Management
0:08:54 Storage Formats
0:10:15 Storage Formats - Shapefiles
0:11:22 Imagery
0:12:16 Relational Databases
0:13:06 Data Querying
0:13:55 Spatial Query
0:14:21 Table Joining
0:14:57 Spatial Analysis
0:15:44 GIS Programming - JavaScript
0:17:21 GIS Programming - Python
0:17:44 GIS Programming - Data Science
0:18:20 Modeling – “What If?” Scenarios
0:18:51 Modeling – Transportation
0:19:21 Cartography and Map Production
0:20:26 Time and Animation
0:21:12 3D and Animation
0:21:59 Mobile GIS and Field Data Collection
0:22:46 Mobile GIS and Field Data Collection: Drones
0:23:19 GIS Limitations
0:25:38 GIS Demonstration - Introduction
0:26:05 GIS Demonstration - QGIS Overview
0:26:37 GIS Demonstration - Basemaps and Open Street Map (OSM)
0:27:23 GIS Demonstration - Plugins
0:28:16 GIS Demonstration - Basic QGIS Use
0:28:54 GIS Demonstration - Adding Data to a QGIS Map (Mumbai India Datasets)
0:31:57 GIS Demonstration - Change Layer Symbology
0:34:00 GIS Demonstration - Toggle Layer Visibility
0:35:15 GIS Demonstration - Attribute Tables
0:36:12 GIS Demonstration - Attributes and Layer Symbology
0:37:16 GIS Demonstration - Attribute Tables and Query
0:39:20 GIS Demonstration - Raster Datasets
0:41:27 GIS Demonstration - Modifying Landsat Imagery Bands
0:43:37 GIS Demonstration - Measure Tool
0:44:05 GIS Demonstration - Importing Text Files
0:48:52 Video Summary

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:

Data:
The Mumbai India datasets – The data sets used in the video, available for free to download:

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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Thanks for stopping by!

Brian Tomaszewski, Ph.D.
@bangeobrian

[daysfan]

I honestly thought when starting to learn about GIS in university that it would be a chore, but you managed to make it somehow interesting :P.

[peterm]

Brian, you have a pedagogical and engaging way of conveying knowledge on GIS. Your passion for its inherent possibilities transfers to viewers. Well done!

[vanessareed]

I'm a dev learning gis and this video is a great step in that journey. 👏🏾

[spawntez]

Thank you very much, this was my first intro to GIS. I learned something new.

[prashantagarwal]

Brian I have just started to listen to your video. I am an adjunct professor. You have conveyed information in a very good way.

[MHAUSMAN]

Thanks for posting this overview on GIS. Looking forward to seeing more.

[jamesbell]

Most of this was 'over my head' ... but ... I've been playing around in QGIS, just enough, that nothing you were talking about was 'foreign'. Thank you for putting this Video together.

[abiyottilahun]

Your video has given me a very good introduction of GIS. The video is very easy to understand and practice. Hope many more is to come

[brianthorson]

Nice video, easy to follow and understand. Thanks!

[jamalaldinbadawi]

It is really great lecture, I benefit a lot, and would like to continue learning GIS from your Videos.

[jhanmaido]

Thank you so much for this video. God bless you more!!!!

[fladners]

nice vid! Too bad the sound only comes in one earbud.

[robertlongoria]

Thanks for the knowledge and for some, an excellent intorduction to a worthwile and producrtive career.

[BlessedFigTree]

Quality education, I am going to keep an eye out for your 2nd edition book coming out soon. Merci! QGIS downloaded and I started playing with it, I'm trying to learn Python and SQL related data science lately after encountering them a little bit in my geography courses. I want to learn more about shape files as they seem unique to GIS over the general data sciences.

[nghnino]

Wow he presented it well, thank you very much for sharing

[Damarleylaing]

Thank you ! Just started my degree in GIS !

[C_CREATURE_]

What do you think of blender for GIS? Also, do you think someone with no experience in the industry can become a "rodman" (on the field data collector) without a full understanding of the data compiling and drafting side of the industry?

[TehDarkOn]

Who would have thought that after all this time playing sim city and civilization, I'd be an advanced novice in GIS.

[kenhaq]

Hello Brian, it is wonderful video ! I am curious is there any possibility to to find out the land encroachment of a lake. We do have the GIS map of the said Lake taken in 2008 .So, considering the base year as 2008, is there any way we can integrate API to a software to find the deviation on the map so far to find the land encroachment and other changes from time to time since the base year. I will highly appreciate your suggestions and inputs on this ..

[hikpod]

This Video is amazing. Thanks alot!!!!