Introduction
to
GIS

A free book by Víctor Olaya

This is a free book about Geographical Information Systems.

You can read it on-line, buy printed copies or download a pdf or epub file.

If you have any suggestion or comment, you can contact the author.

Collaboration

This book is an open project in which you can collaborate. Source files and images are available in the project's GitHub repository .

Contents

• Introduction. What is a GIS?
• History of GIS
• Fundamentals of cartography and geodesy
• Data
• Data sources
• Software and technology
• Databases
• Analysis
• Visualization of geographical data



Permission is granted to copy, distribute or modify this work under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license

The on-line version of the book uses code adapted from the Better Web Readability Project. The CSS used in the lateral menus has been created based on code by Dmitry Fadeyev. The generated-toc library is used to generate chapter indexes.