ESM 263 Geographic Information Systems

Week 1 - Introduction to GIS & cartography

Lecture

• slides: Geographic Information Systems: Introduction

Reading

• Bolstad: ch 1: An Introduction to GIS
  • (We’re posting this chapter for those of you that are still waiting for your book to arrive…)

Lab

• Configuring your system: [macOS] [Windows]
• Organizing your files: [macOS] [Windows]
• Installing QGIS: [macOS] [Windows]
• Configuring QGIS
• Assignment 1 tutorials

FAQ

• Color brewer in QGIS
• Margins and frames in QGIS map layouts

Bonus

• Free software, free society: Richard Stallman at TEDxGeneva 2014

Recordings

• lecture
• lab1
• lab2