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Learning QGIS

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Overview

Enrich your GIS data and make more effective maps with QGIS, an open-source GIS software.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Exploring the powerful world of QGIS
1. Understanding and Installing QGIS
  • Installing QGIS
  • Understanding the types of QGIS installs
  • Overview of QGIS features, part 1
  • Overview of QGIS features, part 2
2. Vector Data with QGIS
  • Types of vector data in QGIS
  • Add shapefiles to QGIS
  • Add WFS data to QGIS
3. Raster Data with QGIS
  • Types of raster data in QGIS
  • Add ECW data
  • Add WMS data
  • Add DEM data
  • Creating contour lines from DEM
4. 3D Maps
  • Creating 3D maps
  • 3D configuration and elevation
  • 3D animations
5. Styling Data
  • Point layers
  • Polyline layers
  • Polygon layers
  • Thematic layers, part 1
  • Thematic layers, part 2
  • DEM layers
6. Labeling Features
  • Label vector data, part 1
  • Label vector data, part 2
7. Changing Default Properties
  • Project properties, part 1
  • Project properties, part 2
8. Printing with Print Layout
  • Adding maps
  • Adding elements
9. Creating New Data
  • Creating new vector vata
  • Exporting layers to shapefiles
  • Adding data from Excel (CSV)
  • Editing existing data
10. Using Advanced Tools
  • Overlay two vector layers
  • Create a heatmap from points
  • Create centroids from polygons
11. Using Plugins
  • Adding and using Street View plugin
  • Adding and using qgis2web plugin
12. Python in QGIS
  • Using the Python Console
  • Create a Python script
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Gordon Luckett

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