How I Would Learn GIS (If I Had To Start Over)

If I had to learn GIS from scratch, this is the way I would do it. Learning GIS, especially a modern GIS approach, can seem overwhelming, but this video explains how to take a four-step process to learn modern GIS and some tools to help you get started!

0:00 Intro
1:12 Using spatial relationships
4:30 Geospatial data engineering with GDAL
7:03 Spatial indicies
8:20 Step 1 - QGIS
10:33 Step 2 - Python
15:30 Step 3 - Spatial SQL
18:15 Step 4 - The Cloud
20:43 Other recommendations

Some of the resources from the video and others to get started:

#gis #sql #qgis #python

Other courses to get started with GIS, spatial data science, and data science (affiliate links):

[wenkanglee]

I couldn't express how glad and grateful I am for this video. Thank you so much, Matt, for making content like this for the GIS enthusiasts out here.

[swyvl_]

What a great overview about all things modern GIS, thanks Matt!

[adrianfeliperuedacastellan]

Absolugamente increíble! Videos como este hacen que la frustración por la gran cantidad de conocimiento que hay se reduzca un poco. Muchas gracias Matt por compartir este aporte tan valioso!

[Omerkubur]

Am a survey engineering student and this helped me alot to understands GIS

[davisoueuu]

it was very enlightening, man. thank you. a lot of points to go deep now

[art_ik]

I'm a software engineer mainly working in the web domain. I'm at the point in my career where I'm finding it very boring at my current job. While thinking about doing some side hustle I ended up thinking about making maps for clients like municipalities and companies because I love maps and cartography in general. Though, I love them very naively, I have never dabbled into what goes behind making maps and cartography I just love looking at maps and analyzing its features. While researching about how I can combine my knowledge as a software engineer and my hobby of maps and geography, I stumbled upon your channel and learned about GIS. I'm very intrigued by the field, I even took an introductory lecture on coursera just to test the waters. I think I will enjoy learning about GIS but I am not sure if that's what I am looking for. I want to design and illustrate maps as a side hustle so my question is, will learning GIS and ArcGIS specifically be worth my time or not? I know it is literally the tech behind maps but is GIS(and ArcGIS) a lot take if I just want to illustrate maps as side hustle? are there any other tech which is more suitable for my needs? Thank you so much. Appreciate the work you are doing.

The best content I've ever seen on gis. Thank you Matt

[Our__Earth]

Thanks Matt ! Clever way of beginning with all those geospatial terms and concepts!

[shreyanbasu]

Thank you so much Matt. It helped me a lot to understand the whole process

[BooneLovesVideo]

This is super helpful! Thank you so much, Matt.

[evaadler]

Pure gem. So insightful! Thank you Matt for continuing to pave the way and share all your amazing knowledge and learnings in modern GIS. Learning so much❤

[StefanoVerugi]

Thanks for your video
SQL easy approach could be with SQLite/Spatialite, it allows a quick start and no server needed, also available within QGIS, very powerful
Another option is R that uses a similar framework with its SF package

[dhima]

I am an undergraduate Geospatial student from In Indonesia. Thank you for making this video! It bright up my future career🎉

[mapmaker]

Great video, I have some Traditional GIS Background and I think I need to learn this pathway immediately. thanks

[nicolasguardo]

Thanks for sharing your experience, this video is very useful and insightful!

[mariarosales]

Hello Matt, thanks a lot for sharing this summary. I'm new to these GIS's field and I need to extract 'real' <most accurate> terrains profiles in .stl format (surface), please, which opensource would be most easy to learn for this purpose?

[RaymondPeckIII]

At 22:05 you mention a video of a full conference from the Open Geospatial Consortium, but I don't see a link to it anywhere, and searches came up empty. 😞

[vladyslav]

What about performance? Do you feel like for cloud usage the python wrappers of the C libraries end up having a cost when it comes to infrastructure?

[nataliagutierrez]

thank you so much for the information in this vide.
I have been learning a little bit of everything as I need it for my job and this is going to structure the way I keep improving my gis skills. :)

[eguagie-suyiprecious]

This is really a great and insightful video. Thanks for this