A Gentle Introduction to GIS¶
- Preamble
- Introducing GIS
- Vector Data
- Overview
- Point features in detail
- Polyline features in detail
- Polygon features in detail
- Vector data in layers
- Editing vector data
- Scale and vector data
- Symbology
- What can we do with vector data in a GIS?
- Common problems with vector data
- What have we learned?
- Now you try!
- Something to think about
- Further reading
- What’s next?
- Vector Attribute Data
- Data Capture
- Overview
- How does GIS digital data get stored?
- Planning before you begin
- Creating an empty shapefile
- Adding data to your shapefile
- Heads-up digitising
- Digitising using a digitising table
- After your features are digitised…
- Common problems / things to be aware of
- What have we learned?
- Now you try!
- Something to think about
- Further reading
- What’s next?
- Raster Data
- Overview
- Raster data in detail
- Georeferencing
- Sources of raster data
- Spatial Resolution
- Spectral resolution
- Raster to vector conversion
- Vector to raster conversion
- Raster analysis
- Common problems / things to be aware of
- What have we learned?
- Now you try!
- Something to think about
- Further reading
- What’s next?
- Topology
- Coordinate Reference Systems
- Overview
- Map Projection in detail
- The three families of map projections
- Accuracy of map projections
- Coordinate Reference System (CRS) in detail
- Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) CRS in detail
- On-The-Fly Projection
- Common problems / things to be aware of
- What have we learned?
- Now you try!
- Something to think about
- Further reading
- What’s next?
- Map Production
- Overview
- Title in detail
- Map Border in detail
- Map Legend in detail
- North arrow in detail
- Scale in detail
- Acknowledgment in detail
- Graticule in detail
- Name of the map projection in detail
- Common problems / things to be aware of
- What have we learned?
- Now you try!
- Something to think about
- Further reading
- What’s next?
- Vector Spatial Analysis (Buffers)
- Spatial Analysis (Interpolation)
- About the authors & contributors
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