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Geographic Information System (OSOS Summer School 2019 Workshop)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a tool of Geoinformatics as they combine both descriptive information and spatial information into a computational system. The incorporation of new technologies at every stage of the educational process is a prerequisite for developing students' creative and critical thinking and providing them with the skills to manage, process and distribute knowledge and information throughout their lives.

The aim of the Workshop during the OSOS Summer School is to understand trainees such as Geoinformatics and one of its scientific disciplines of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The combination of GIS science with education will be realized through case studies, such as the creation of a map of paths and historical points of the mountain in Google Earth, along with the necessary processing and management of geospatial data, the creation of an imprint project with learning and using GPS handhelds to collect map data in the field, and finally examples of using GIS in primary and secondary school classes.