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Albion GIS is a compact GIS (Geographical Information System) which provides the user with standard GIS functions such as to load/edit spatial data, open/view/query/edit attribute data and to explore data via colour rendering (i.e. thematic mapping). You will be able to do all of that by simply following these steps:

 

•Finding the GIS menus and icons

•Opening a polygon shapefile

•Viewing the layer data

•Querying the layer data

•Changing the style of the shapefile

•Changing the rendering of the shapefile

•Editing the layer data

•Editing shape vertices

•Saving changes made to shapefile

 

The above Albion GIS Quick Start Guide only scratches the surface with respect to the full capabilities of the program, yet will give you an understanding of the structure of the program, and the basic functions/procedures required to get started with typical geographical data processing and analysis. More information and detailed examples are given in the Albion User Guide and the Albion Tutorial Guides.

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