Quantum GIS, or QGIS, is a free, open-source GIS software package created by the QGIS Development Team in 2002. QGIS is a volunteer-driven project, accepting contribution from users in the form of code, tool development, bug reports/fixes, documentation, and advocacy/support. The volunteer-driven, open-source nature of QGIS promotes 1 INTRODUCING GIS - GIS Applications allow you to create many different types of maps from the same data. - GIS is a great visualisation tool that can show you things about your data and how they are related in space (e.g. those disease outbreaks we saw earlier). - Paper maps need to be filed and are time consuming to view. QGIS EXERCISE SAMPLE DATA Introduction to GIS I (PDF - 4.7MB) ArcGIS Exercise I (PDF - 1.1MB) QGIS Exercise I (PDF - 1.3MB) Sample Data I (ZIP - 33.4MB) (This zip file contains 2.cts, 6.dbf, 6.prj, 8.shp, 4.xml, 6.shx, 4.sbn and .4sbx file.) Introduction to GIS II (PDF - 1.4MB) ArcGIS Exercise II (PDF - 1.1MB) QGIS Exercise II (PDF - 1.4MB) An Introduction to GIS Using QGIS (v. 2.12.2) Author: Michael L. Treglia mtreglia@gmail.com Updated 19 March 2017 (e-mail address and affiliation updated) License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Please see the following website for complete license Introduction to Quantum GIS Vector Data Raster Data Plugins Fields and Attribution Creating Data Map Layout Modeling AGENDA QGIS FRONT END TOOLS, PLUGINS, TOOL BOX, MODELS DATATYPES, RASTER, VECTOR, ATTRIBUTES COORDINATES, SYSTEMS, PROJECTIONS • Digital (PDF, JPEG )