Book Title: An Introduction to Geospatial Thinking and Open Source GIS
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Book Description: An Introduction to Geospatial Thinking and Open Source GIS is a beginners guide to understanding geospatial concepts and tools.
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An Introduction to Geospatial Thinking and Open Source GIS is a beginners guide to understanding geospatial concepts and tools. As we move into an age of AI generated research, this foundational learning is essential for understanding the nuts and bolts of conducting analyses as well as evaluating the analyses of others. Part one is focused largely on concepts and part two is focused on practice using open source tools. This is an Open Educational Resource (OER). Part one was adapted mainly from Essentials of Geographic Information Systems, Campbell, 2011, and Spatial Thinking in Planning Practice: An Introduction to GIS, Fang, 2014. Part two is newly developed content focused on providing readers, scaffolded introductory exercises.
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An Introduction to Geospatial Thinking and Open Source GIS Copyright © 2025 by Jennifer Moore is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing
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An Introduction to Geospatial Thinking and Open Source GIS Copyright © 2025 by Jennifer Moore is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Much of part 1 of this book was adapted (with significant updates) from previous works.
Chapters 1 – 4, and 7 were adapted, with significant changes to structure, prose, and images, from:
- Campbell, Jonathan. n.d. Essentials of Geographic Information Systems. 2011. Saylor Foundation. Accessed September 1, 2020. https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_essentials-of-geographic-information-systems/.
- Fang, Yiping. n.d. “Spatial Thinking in Planning Practice: An Introduction to GIS.” Open Textbook Library. Accessed August 17, 2020. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/234.
- Rosenfeld, Christine, and Nathan Burtch. n.d. Human Geography. Accessed September 30, 2025. https://viva.pressbooks.pub/humangeog/.
Chapter 5 was adapted to emphasize geospatial data considerations from:- Briney, Kristin. n.d. The Research Data Management Workbook. Accessed April 11, 2025. https://caltechlibrary.github.io/RDMworkbook/.