Learning GIS Using Open Source Software - 9780367487454

Taylor & Francis

Learning GIS Using Open Source SoftwareAn Applied Guide for Geo-spatial Analysis\nAuthor(s): Kakoli Saha, Yngve K. Fryen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9780367487454, 978-0367487454\nSynopsis\nThis book introduces the usage, functionality, and application of data in geographic information systems (GIS) for geo-spatial analysis. It offers knowledge on GIS tools and techniques and explains how they can be applied in real-world project to architects and planners in the Indian and the Greater South Asian context using open-source software.\n\nThe volume explains concepts on planning and architectural tasks, their data, methods and requirements followed, and includes GIS-related exercises on the same tasks. It takes the reader through the concepts of geo-spatial analysis and its referencing system while quoting examples from India. Further, the content of the book will help the planners involved in preparing GIS-b.