GIS Practicum Manual - Introduction to GIS Using Open Source Software
This manual is used in the day-long workshop held at Baruch each semester, Introduction to GIS Using Open Source Software using QGIS. The hands-on workshop is ONLY open to Baruch and CUNY affiliates. For more information and registration visit the GIS Practicum page.
NOTE: if you are participating in the hands-on workshop DO NOT print out this manual. You will be given a bound, printed version that is more recent than this online version.
ANYONE is welcome to use this on-line tutorial under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works License, for personal or classroom use. You MAY link to this site, download the pages, and print out and distribute the manuals under this license (for optimal printing set the page margins on your browser to 0.4 on all sides). You may NOT copy and re-host this material on another website.
Introduction to GIS Using Open Source Software - Version 2.0 (Aug 2011) 
- Introduction and Table of Contents
- Part 1 - An Overview of GIS
- Part 2 - Exploring the Interface
- Part 3 - Geographic Analysis
- Part 4 - Thematic Mapping
- Part 5 - Going Further
- Appendix
- Data File for tutorial (Fall 2011 / Spring 2012)
- Current QGIS Software for download
Note - this manual (version 2.0) was written for QGIS version 1.7x. If you're using an older version of QGIS (1.5 or 1.6) refer to the previous manual (version 1.0).