GIS tools to compute pedestrian accessibility are not just available to governments, academics, or companies, but are also free and open source.
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Spatial Analysis
Free Urban Planning GIS Exercises
An open access book focusing on the use of GIS in sustainable urban planning and management has includes six chapters containing exercises and GIS data.
GIS Learning
QGIS Map Design, 2nd Edition
Updated to be used with QGIS 3.4, the second edition of QGIS Map Design is now available in its final version.
GIS Software
How to Get the Map View in QGIS to Resize Properly on a Mac
One Mac OS specific bug is the map view canvas doesn’t fill the available space in QGIS 3.x versions. Learn how to fix this.
GIS Learning
Access 35 GIS Lectures and Labs for Free
The FOSS4G Geoacademy has released 35 geospatial lectures and labs for free under a Common Creative license.
GIS Learning
GIS Forums
Where can you go to get help with GIS issues? There are a variety of different web sites that can help with GIS questions, depending on the type of technical or general questions you have. While there are many geospatial forums that have been set up, only a handful are […]
GIS Software
QGIS 3.0 Released
Version 3.0 of QGIS, the popular free and open source GIS software, was released today.
GIS Learning
How to Add a Map from Mapbox to QGIS
This tutorial will show you how to take a map style you have created in Mapbox and load it into a QGIS session.
GIS Learning
Learn GIS for Free
There are a few online options to learn GIS for free. Take advantage of resources that provide you access to free courses from some of the world’s best universities and institutions.
GIS Learning, GIS Software
How to Geocode Addresses Using QGIS
If you have a CSV formatted file containing addresses, you can take advantage of QGIS to map out those addresses. This article contains step by step instructions for geocoding addresses using QGIS.