Courses

Welcome to the “Absolute Beginner’s Guide to QGIS”: your first stop in the whole GIS world using the expanded capabilities of the QGIS software. The course is quite suitable for the basic level where the learners have no prior experience in working with GIS and QGIS and the course takes the learners from the basic level to the advanced level. It will be easy for everyone who wants to learn QGIS and get the best out of it no matter the reason ranging from being a student, a professional who wants to make more improvements in this line or even a hobbyist who wants to map and analyze spatial data.

By the end of this course, the individual will be in a position to comprehend the procedures of working with QGIS environment, methods of inputting data, analysis data, development of attractive maps and other essential GIS processes. Here, we will start with simple things that a layman can understand like QGIS software, getting started with the QGIS software and the concepts about the constituent parts of the software; we will then go further and understand the operator levels of capabilities such as data visualization and geoprocessing and lastly, spatial analysis.

Finally, by the end of this course, one will have sufficient understanding and confidence on QGIS and be in a position to do real GIS work. Stay with us in this journey and learn how GIS tools in QGIS can be helpful for you to acquire meaningful information and clamorous maps from your GIS data.

This, therefore, brings us to the, “ArcGIS Pro Tutorial for Absolute GIS Beginners” course. Aimed at those who have no prior experience in GIS and are going to study about it and practice on the ArcGIS Pro software which is one of the leading software in the list of GIS applications. Regardless of whether you are a student, a professional who is using the program to extend your work or just someone who wants to know more about GIS technology and the ArcGIS Pro software, this course will assist you in getting a good start when it comes to mastering the GIS software.

Thus, during this course, the students will be guided gradually through ArcGIS Pro and the things it can do for them from the most straightforward to the most complex. It contains elements of interface familiarization, questions of map and data creation, spatial analysis, and, finally, maps and data making alive. As you proceed through this tutorial and if you are beginning to use ArcGIS Pro, we want it to be enjoyable, efficient, and effective to where you feel relaxed when solving problems through GIS technologies in a real-life scenario. On board this interesting journey and improve your GIS projects with this powerful environment – ArcGIS Pro.

I would like to welcome you to this new tutorial that I have written and now would like to present to you: ArcMap Tutorial for the Absolute GIS Beginner! This course is primarily intended for the first-time learners engaged in the courses focused on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) who would like to know how to work with ArcMap as this is a practical tool for creating, analyzing, and visualizing geographical data sets. Anyone who ever wants to know GIS, be it university students, professionals who have time to learn more on it or even any persons who may feel that they want to learn about GIS and it’s uses will benefit from this course.

The first lesson of this tutorial focuses on the identification of ArcMap’s elements and primary applications which are the basis of the course software. They will be exposed to concepts and operations of ArcGIS initial interface and forms of geospatial data, and ways, methods of general and simple geoprocessing operations. The intention of teaching each lesson is with the passion of ensuring that at the end of each course, the learners are confident and competent enough to perform certain maneuvers on ArcMap in order to carry out different GIS exercises. Hello and let ArcMap lead you on the path of exploration of capabilities of GIS technology on this exciting journey!

Your have selected the Articles section within the GIS Schools page, and it is my honor to share them with you. Here is another pile of useful and engaging materials that are dedicated to the sphere of Geographical Data Frameworks (GIS) and other geospatial tools. Every single article that is published must be informative, interesting, and capture any GIS expert or the newcomer to GIS.

As for multiple issues, let analyze everything starting from elementary GIS definition and up to the modern geospatial technologies, and ending with practical usage, cases, cases’ study, vocations’ view. With the help of dedicated team of professionals and the inspired team of angels and knowledge bearers who also bring their data, expertise and emotions you will keep being up to date with the constantly evolving world of GIS.

The selected “Articles” class benefited learners, who were either understudies, gurus or mere individuals who had interest on the strength of guides, and spatial information by enhancing their general knowledge and interest in GIS. Swim and discover, and splash off on a tour of reconnaissance in the territory of GIS.

Bury yourself in our stock of books for knowledge on many subjects. For everything from earth observation to remote sensing, literature, history, science fiction, and more, these summaries are useful, offering valuable information to enhance the readers’ knowledge and help them look at matters in new ways. Our catalog not only guides the student, researcher, or any book worm in acquiring knowledge within a certain discipline, but also in any industry across various publications.

📚 Books – Your Free GIS & Tech Learning Library

Welcome to the Books section of GIS Schools — a curated digital shelf of the best GIS, Remote Sensing, Programming, and Spatial Data Science books, all available for free download.

From beginner-friendly guides to advanced references, here you'll find:

• 🌍 Core GIS textbooks and spatial analysis handbooks

• 🧠 Machine Learning and Python for Geospatial books

• 🗺️ Remote sensing, cartography, and spatial database resources

• 💡 Urdu + English titles for local learners and global minds

• 📘 Bonus: Project reports, research papers & cheat sheets

Whether you're preparing for a job, teaching a class, or doing research, this section gives you the fuel to upgrade your knowledge without paying a penny.

Here is the first lesson of the GDAL/OGR Beginners Tutorial. From this course you will be able to get more details about one of the popular and useful software libraries – GDAL and another useful library OGR Simple Features Library. This tutorial is designed for both GIS specialist and programmer, developer, or if you have no preliminary experience with geospatial data and digital methods to work with it, thus, this lesson is going to introduce you with the use of GDAL/OGR to handle different geospatial data formats and perform different tasks with them.

Within this course, you will be able to comprehend how to install and configure GDAL/OGR, use the toolbox of the command line and use the Python programs for further analysis. We similarly lead you through how to obtain data for geospatial analysis, how to read and write such data in the format, how one can transform the said data, and of course, perform the analysis properly. After this tutorial, you should be familiar with GDAL/OGR and must be able to implement this framework for solving own geospatial problems, to manipulate with your spatial data and perform needed geoprocessing operations on it. Greetings to this way of exploring all possibilities of GDAL / OGR and enhancing the opportunities of a raster GIS system.

Welcome to "GeoServer: Your Complete Tutorial,” the ultimate guide of learning GeoServer, the open source server solution for geospatial data. From this course, would be equipped with the knowledge as well as the skills of how to manage, publish and even analyze spatial data starting from the basic level to the most developed level. GeoServer is a key application to manage and publishing geospatial information, and the guide will assist you to unlock the application’s core functionalities.

First, we will cover a brief of GeoServer and its main features and processes of installing, configuring, and data managing. Continuing on, you will be able to create and edit layers, create styles with the help of the SLD (Styled Layer Descriptor), and publish the data using such web services as WMS, WFS, and WCS. When you complete this course, you will be prepared to implement GeoServer in practical application in various GIS projects, thus, you will contribute to creation of reliable geospatial solutions.

This is the “GIS Mobile Data Collection App with QField (QGIS)” course and you’re welcome to it! Here in this in-depth tutorial, I am going to explain the enormous features of QField which is one of the most efficient mobile application for collecting GIS data and field mapping. Regardless of your background, whether you are a GIS professional, a researcher, or you are looking for the best way to gather information on the go, then this course will help you gain the right skills that you need to enhance your use of QField in your projects.

Over this course you will be using QField and perform various tasks that will allow you to understand the effectiveness of this software. From installation to launching the projects, types of data collection and procedures on harmonizing with QGIS will also be discussed. After the completion of this tutorial, you will comfortably be able to use QField to capture progressive GIS data and apply the captured datasets into your field and GIS activities. Come and discover how exactly you could enhance your mobility with this application and ease the data collecting tasks!

Start your journey in the world of web development with our comprehensive series of courses, "HTTPL and CSS for Beginners: The picture is translated like: ”Create Your Own Website & Get started ONLINE”. Regardless you are a complete beginner with no past experience in website designing or an intermediate level user who wants to improve their existing abilities, this series is created to provide you with the fundamental information and handy skills to build your wonderful websites.

Here, I will be sharing HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) tutorials for the newbies right from the beginning. It is always easier to learn something when a person is taken through every stage and is given examples to follow; this is what we will do as a guide to introduce you to its basics.

Moving through the collection, you’ll study greater approximately HTML and discover which tags and options you want to enhance the appearance of your net page. You will then find out about CSS and how to layout, prepare, and upload extra visible enchantment for the content in your designs.

But this collection isn’t pretty much an idea, it is an approximately realistic application. You will join as you watch the connections being made side by side with what you have been discovering in real time. Whether it is building a web site that adapts to screen sizes, including multi-media content material and interactivity mechanisms, you will gain useful knowledge as you help bring your projects to existence.

But this is not the end of the adventurous experience all together. We will also take you through the process of installing your Internet site so that you have your construction globally. You will find information about area registration, web hosting, and the procedure of submitting your website to the peers.

By the end of those publications you will be believing in yourself and have enriched enough knowledge to create your websites from ground up and go live. Whether you figure in net improvement or are simply exploring your creative facet, "HTML and CSS for Beginners: Create a Website

Here you are at “Learn Spatial Databases with PostGIS and QGIS,” your complete tutorial and reference to creating and manip|ulating spatial databases and geographic information systems (GIS). In this course, you'll gain hands-on experience with two of the most powerful tools in the GIS realm: PostGIS, which is the spatial database extension of PostgreSQL and provides spatial functionality to your database and on the other hand QGIS referred to as Quantum GIS is a free and open source GIS application software which has very powerful functionality and also very easy to use friendly user interface.

Firstly, set up and configuring of PostGIS will be discussed followed by creating and Manipulating spatial data, and finally doing advanced querying to get the important and useful information. From there, we shall smoothly link PostGIS with QGIS, in a way that facilitates analysis of your spatial data in equally calculated detail. The data management and analysis components thoroughly incorporate practical elements throughout the course to improve yours skills in managing data and making geospatial analysis and visualization. All in all, what they are offering in this course is what GIS professionals need to rounded up their tool kits while extending supportive hand for fresh comers eager to do work on spatial databases.

Welcome to "Mastering Raster Data Analysis in ArcMap: to the carefully chosen title of “‘Cheney & Bush’ – A Comprehensive Guide”! Concepts taught in this course are appropriate for GIS specialists or anybody interested in increasing their abilities in ArcMap raster data analysis. This kind of data represented by pixel structure is fairly useful for environmental modeling, analysis, and decision making. This course will provide the participant with a step by step guide on raster data analysis with special focus of raster data structures and raster dataset analysis.

By following step-by-step instructions and practical examples in this course you will be able to achieve correct working with raster data in ArcMap, apply numerous analyses, as well as visualize the results accurately. Typical topics like data preprocessing, conducting spatial analysis, generating purposeful results for your projects will be discussed here. After reading through this extensive piece, you will be in a competent position to execute and undertake some challenging raster analysis functions to enhance the value from the spatial databases. This course is teaching you the fundamentals of raster data analysis in ArcMap for either starting learners or those who need to polish up their skills.

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Hi to the course titled “Presentation and Analysis of GIS Data on Dashboard with Leaflet. ” This course will provide the knowledge about the methods of the creation of dynamic and interactive dashboards in analysis of the Geographic Information System (GIS) data using the extension named Leaflet. Today, there is a number of such tools, but one of the most popular are frameworks named Leaflet that can create quite simple and user-friendly web maps by means of JavaScript. This course will demonstrate the ways of implementing the GIS data in web applications using the Leaflet and the realistic approaches for it.

It will also mean that within the context of the course, you will learn how to design the structures that will contain the interactive dashboards of the application used in displaying spatial data, how to modify the components of the application that is made of several modules often referred to as the plugins and how to even make adjustments on aspects of map details. We will also cover overall ideas concerning the data representations, mapping of interactions and fusion of multiple inputs introduced to the application. By the end of this course, they should be in a position to develop professional GIS dashboard that will help in the process of converting as well as sharing GIS data.

Hi and welcome to the “QGIS – Mastering Geospatial Analysis,” a one-stop source to help you master geospatial analysis using QGIS. This course will transport you through the elementary aspects of QGIS, which is currently a preferred open-source Geographic Information System and enable you to carry out sophisticated analysis with minimal assistance.

From the fundamental level, you will know how to work with QGIS graphical user interface, handling and visualization of geospatial data and tools necessary for the manipulation of the data. Our tutorials will include necessary practical sessions with examples, and we will deal with some concrete and real-life scenarios based on ArcGIS, for example, spatial searching, geoprocessing and map layouting. In addition, when the end of this course, you will obtain a profound comprehensiveness of geospatial concepts and QGIS while capable of selecting and solving diversified spatial exercises and fine visualizations. Welcome to this course, aimed at learn GIS or enhance your skills in the field and learn how to unleash the power of geospatial analysis with QGIS.

In this comprehensive tutorial, we demonstrate how to integrate pgRouting with PostGIS in QGIS for powerful network routing analysis. You'll learn how to set up a routing model on a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database from scratch and then use QGIS to visualize the shortest path between two points on a map. We walk through each step of importing your road network data, enabling pgRouting functions, and performing route calculations directly within QGIS's user-friendly interface. This hands-on demonstration shows how QGIS can serve as a front-end for robust, database-driven analysis by highlighting a real example of finding the fastest route from point A to B.

🔧 Softwares – Free GIS & Tech Tools for Every Mapper

Welcome to the Softwares section of GIS Schools — your go-to hub for free GIS, mapping, and spatial analysis tools. Whether you're a student, developer, planner, or just a curious mind, here you’ll find:

• 🧭 Essential GIS software (like QGIS, gvSIG, MapWindow, etc.)

• 🛠️ Handy utilities for shapefile, raster, and geodatabase management

• 📦 Plugins and add-ons to supercharge your spatial workflows

• 💾 Legacy tools that still get the job done in 2025!

All software listed here are free to download, tested by experts, and often used in real-world government and research projects across the globe. We believe in open access and empowering the next generation of geo-thinkers.

This is the “The Beginner Guide to GIS Professionals” and you are at the starting point of managing the elementary factors of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Actually, this course is aimed at newcomers, who would like to build their GIS careers or those who require updating the information. If you are interested in knowing about what GIS is and the major tools and techniques used or if you wish to put down common knowledge for specific applications, this course has rudimentary information for learners.

during this particular course, you will find it possible to look at the several aspects of GIS such as the spatial data, mapping and analysis. It elaborates the steps of working with the most popular GIS application software, ‘understand the life cycle of data management’, and use GIS to address the particular problems. Here, … our tutes are presented in fun and interactive manner with practical exercises and real life cases that we trust will make you a GIS professional and unleash the power of spatial data in much of any occupation. Come to us and let the process of making GIS as perfect as it can be begin!

Hello everyone, this is the “Viewer-Curated Playlist” course. Here in this course, we will understand how engaging and interesting it is to create along with managing playlists that your viewers would like to watch. This course is suitable for content creators, teachers, and media managers who seek to increase their audience involved by sharing the lists with their viewers.

Over the course of this class, you will learn how to work with the viewer data, choose the content, that will be of interest to the viewers, and structure this content into an easy-to-watch and interesting playlist. The further information that you will get for reading this article will focus on the key strategies that can help viewers and listeners to find the playlists they would prefer and actively engage with them. To be more specific by the end of this course you will be able to design good and effective viewer-centered playlists and therefore take your content to more aware audience.