GIS, Mapping, and Spatial Analysis
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9 points • melent3303
GIS Coursera class I got certificates for:
Beginner
Intermediate
- GIS, Mapping, and Spatial Analysis Specialization by University of Toronto
- Spatial Data Science and Applications by Yonsei University
- GIS Data Formats, Design and Quality by UC Davis
1 points • Uskoreniye1985
Thanks for your reply. I'm currently studying in Europe but I'm from the states. Its interesting to know that ArcGIS is more used in North America. I'm obviously not looking for a job right now in GIS but its a useful thing to consider. Then again from what I've read and what you said it seems knowledge of one GIS program can be useful for learning or using others.
In high school I did a coding class and I've played around with some coding stuff such as code academy but in all honesty numbers just don't stick well with me. Hence I've decided to try and start with GIS and then learn coding once I get the hang of it and when I have clear use for it. I'm thinking of doing ArcGIS mainly cause this course uses it and I'll be able to get a discount on using it and I can do the actual course for free. https://www.coursera.org/specializations/gis-mapping-spatial-analysis
I'd also consider learning QGIS I just haven't seen many good courses for it. If you know of any I'll gladly take a look at them.
Thanks again for answer and have a good week.
1 points • Harry-le-Roy
Massive Open Online Course.
Here's the U Toronto program I mentioned, for reference.. UC Davis has some related courses and programs on the same platform. Here's the Maryland program on drones.
1 points • avtechx
GIS Geography is a good resource: https://gisgeography.com/learn-gis/
As others have said, ESRI has good training on their website(much of it free) and the publish a lot of content to YouTube.
Coursera has a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) specialization course taught by UC Davis or a GIS, Mapping, and Spatial Analysis specialization course taught by University of Toronto.
As an online component of their GIS book "Mastering ArcGIS Pro", McGraw Hill has some online tutorial videos here. (The audio quality isn't the best, but it is great to see the instructor go through the motions for each action).
MIT OPEN Courseware has some GIS Tutorials for both ArcGIS and QGIS here.
There are a number of classes on Udemy.
Depending on what your end goals are, there are also some short specialized classes in geospatial analysis offered by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (here - wildfire analysis), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (here - GIS for disasters), the US Census Bureau (mostly OpenStreetMap and QGIS, but the dataset review is good here)