[GIS Book/PDF] Free and open source GIS software. Educational manual

Mar 10, 2020

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This white paper is written with the support from the National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence (GeoTech Center, http://www.geotechcenter.org/). The goal of this paper is to assist GIS educators at various institutes (high schools, community colleges and universities) towards understanding the potential role of open source software (or free and open source software -- FOSS) in GIS education. The free and open source software "movement" has significantly impacted all aspects of information technology (Tiemann, 2009). We, as GIS educators, are already using many open source software packages daily and may not be aware of them. For example, if you are browsing website contents, 52.26% of web servers on the Internet in 2009 use Apache, currently the most popular web server software (http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/01/) freely available for download. Firefox browsers, thunderbird email tools and Linux operation systems are examples of popular open source software. However, open source software is not well adopted in GIS education due to the lack of user-friendly guidance and the full integration of GIS learning resources. This paper will provide a basic introduction of some of the available free and open source software with easy-to-follow guidance for both GIS teachers and students. Hopefully, more GIS educators will adopt open source GIS software in their courses to provide a comprehensive range of instructional tools and resources.

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Free and open source GIS software. Educational manual

Author(s): Nyussupova G.N., Kairova Sh.G., Kalimurzina A.M.

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