In this chapter, we installed the required open source GIS software, configured some of them, and downloaded a lot of open source data. We became familiar with open source products, licenses, and data sources. Now we can create an open source GIS working environment from zero and acquire some data to work with. We also gained some knowledge about data collection methods and their nature.
In the next chapter, we will visualize the downloaded data in QGIS. We will learn to use some of the most essential functionalities of a desktop GIS client while browsing our data. We will also learn some of the most basic attributes and specialities of different data types in GIS.
