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Open the Door to GIS: Student Edition
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780998547718
Publisher: Locate Pr
Published: May 15 2017
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.24 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Open the Door to GIS guides you through a set of stories that will teach you how to use the most popular Open Source Geographic Information System available---QGIS. This book is recommended for students age 10--15 years.
You'll learn how to:
- Operate new software
- Design a digital map
- Generate a 3D map
- Communicate with maps
- Advance your creativity with a graphics package
- Invent solutions using software
- Successfully manage working as a group
- Develop a learning strategy for approaching new software
- Become a critical thinker
- Create your own GIS game
All software requred for the exercises is available free of charge and works on Windows, Mac OSX, and LInux. Get your copy today!
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