Summary

Well done! You are now a geospatial analyst. In this chapter, you learned the state of the art of geospatial analysis through the story of Ushahidi and the Ebola virus. You learned the history of geospatial analysis and the technologies that support it. You became familiar with foundational GIS and remote sensing concepts that will serve you through the rest of the book. You actually built a working GIS that can be expanded to do whatever you can imagine! In the next chapter, we'll tackle the data formats that you'll encounter as geospatial analysts. Geospatial analysts spend far more time dealing with data than actually performing analysis. Understanding the data that you're working with is essential to working efficiently and having fun.