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Practical GIS

The most commonly used GIS tools automate tasks that were historically done manually—compiling new maps by overlaying one on top of the other or physically cutting maps into pieces representing specific study areas, changing their projection, and getting meaningful results from the various layers by applying mathematical functions and operations. This book is an easy-to-follow guide to use the most matured open source GIS tools for these tasks.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

14h16m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

The book is for IT professionals who have little or no knowledge of GIS. It’s also useful for those who are new to the GIS field who don’t want to spend a lot of money buying licenses of commercial tools and training.

Book content

chapters 14h16m total length

Setting up your environment

Accessing GIS data with QGIS

Identifying your features of interest

Creating digital maps

Exporting the results

Creating and feeding a PostGIS database

A PostGIS overview

Exploit your data

Spatial analysis on steroids

A typical GIS problem

Showcasing your data

Styling your data in GeoServer

Creating a web map

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