Comments on: Penn State’s Certificate in Geographic Information Systems http://www.patricbrown.com/blog/33/penn-states-certificate-in-geographic-information-systems Mostly about Software Development and Data Science Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Patric Brown http://www.patricbrown.com/blog/33/penn-states-certificate-in-geographic-information-systems/comment-page-1#comment-43 Patric Brown Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:39:47 +0000 http://www.patricbrown.com/blog/?p=33#comment-43 Great Question! There are so many tools available, one of the toughest things for anyone new to it is to to decide where to begin. A good start would be to try <a href="http://www.qgis.org"/ rel="nofollow">Quantum GIS</a>. Depending on your interests, I would also recommend looking at <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/" rel="nofollow">GRASS GIS</a>, <a href="http://mapserver.org/" rel="nofollow">MapServer</a> and <a href="http://postgis.refractions.net/" rel="nofollow">PostGIS</a>. These projects have active user communities and recent releases... generally meaning they're well maintained and going somewhere. Great Question! There are so many tools available, one of the toughest things for anyone new to it is to to decide where to begin. A good start would be to try Quantum GIS. Depending on your interests, I would also recommend looking at GRASS GIS, MapServer and PostGIS. These projects have active user communities and recent releases… generally meaning they’re well maintained and going somewhere.

]]> By: Paul Ferretti http://www.patricbrown.com/blog/33/penn-states-certificate-in-geographic-information-systems/comment-page-1#comment-42 Paul Ferretti Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:22:30 +0000 http://www.patricbrown.com/blog/?p=33#comment-42 Patric, Congratulations on completing the course. Can you provide a list of open source tools you would recommend? Thanks, Paul Patric,

Congratulations on completing the course. Can you provide a list of open source tools you would recommend?

Thanks,

Paul

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