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Here's the quick and dirty of it:

Professional GIS software is expensive. Lots of schools have licences and can give out free copies to students. So unless you are planning on going back to school or have a stupid amount of money to throw down, don't worry about that. In the meantime, use an open source software!!

There are a ton of tutorials available on youtube and accross the web.

The main programming language associated with GIS is Python, so that would be good to start learning. It was literally written to be easy/simplified.

A handful of basic, essential processes/concepts to read/watch/practice about(others can help me fill out this list): Buffers, Intersections, Table Joins, Clips, Reclassification, and much, much more. Oh, you can also import X,Y data from an excel spreadsheet into GIS software and display those as points on a map!!

The basic file format for gis is a shapefile. The internet is full of data! Just start poking around things that are interesting to you. For example: http://egis3.lacounty.gov/dataportal/

Good luck!

Good call.

Maybe try not building pyramids.

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Also, maybe try using gdal, like done here

Thanks, I tried all three of those but I end up in the southern hemisphere with those ;)

Anyway, I think I found something while trying to decipher markings on the edge of the map: Krasovsky ellipsoid.

According to that article N 35-129-(224) visible in the right top corner would place this map somewhere in Belarus, which is a bit closer to the intended location of the city of Tarkov:

The events of Escape from Tarkov take place in an alternate universe around our present time, in the fictional Russian city of Tarkov, the northern industrial and financial center of the country via EFT Knowledge Base

Well, at least I learned something ;)

Forget the online stuff and buy a textbook. They are laid out logically, have sufficient depth and breadth, and contain practice problems at the end of each chapter. They also cover niche subjects that may be of interest to you but will never make it to MOOC form due to the lack of demand. If you get stuck you can always ask someone here!

But if you must: https://www.coursera.org/psu

Solved by slightly altering this:

*Install QGIS (32 or 64 bit depending on your Python install) *Copy pyspatialite folder from C:/Programs ... /QGIS/apps/Python/Lib/site-packages/ to your global Python site-packages folder *Add C:/Programs .../QGIS/bin to your PATH.

Done. Hope this helps someone else in the future.

Sorry that's how it is. You really only have three choices here. Parallels, dual boot or VMs. If you can't afford Parallels and don't want to pirate it you will need to create a VM or dual boot (http://www.notebookreview.com/howto/in-progress-how-to-dual-boot-from-a-mac-into-windows/). Parallels is definitely the superior option. If you can't afford Parallels but still have a newer Mac get a VirtualBox VM. If you have an older Mac that is a little light on resources you will probably want to dual boot.

ESRI won't support Mac in the near future. The big money for them is in corporate solutions that almost exclusively use Windows for their client software. They have always been a Microsoft shop (well, ever since they started creating GIS products similar to how we know them today). Their few Linux products are either lagging behind or completely abandoned. Their entire flagship new product (ArcGIS Pro) is built on WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation).

If you really want to get with software that is supported natively on Mac I recommend QGIS (http://www.qgis.org/en/site/)

Web Server: Tomcat

Web Mapping: Leaflet.js

Map Server: Geoserver (download the .war file for Tomcat, place it in the Tomcat webapps directory)

Database: PostgreSQL with PostGIS. You can skip this while you learn how to code against Leaflet and Geoserver.

That's a decent basic setup. Start by creating a map using Leaflet. Choose a basemap, such as OpenStreetMap. Geoserver can serve up WFS, WMS, WCS, etc. for relevant data you have hosted on Geoserver. Look into WFS-T for web-based editing. Honestly, just get comfortable creating maps and displaying data in them first.

Notepad++ is rad as a tool to have in your arsenal, but I also prefer PyScripter for Python development.

OP, if you're doing a lot of Web development too (which is why I originally relied on Notepadd++), consider Sublime Text.

There is an android port of QGIS still labelled experimental, and basically the full desktop app rather than a mobile app.

What is igis?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.qgis.qgis&hl=en