QGIS for Beginners #1: QGIS Orientation. +Free eBooks

QGIS tutorial: Learn the fundamentals of QGIS 3 in ONE DAY

Created by: Ian Allan
24 yrs GIS Educator & Consultant: 3 Courses, 5000+ Students!

What Will I Learn?

• Install QGIS3. Orientation of the interface. Shade & validate maps. Present maps - scalebar, nth arrow, annotations. Turn acrobat into a GIS viewer with geopdfs
• How to open QGIS maps and QGIS air photos. And change their appearance.
• QGIS 3 Project Files: Recreate screen environments from days, months or even years ago.
• Thematic map creation and colour scheme selection: Choose a colour scheme so that your maps are easy to compare to each other, and tell a story.
• Time-series (shaded) thematic maps.
• How to validate Geospatial data: Why it is important to validate GIS mapping and how to go about doing it.
• Understand the relationship between a GIS map, the data, and the metadata that lies behind it.
• Geospatial concepts: Why maps have limitations. Why GIS maps are rich geospatial databases. Map overlay. The four types of GIS map objects.
• Map interpretation: The shapes, colors and other visual clues in GIS maps and air photos can be surrogates for both socio-economic and environmental information
• Map presentation (cartography): Using the QGIS Layout feature to add metadata, scalebars, north arrows and inset maps.
• Export formats including geopdf maps that turn Adobe Acrobat into a GIS viewer. This functionality is AMAZING!

Requirements

• A pdf reader to open the FREE QGIS tutorial eBook.
• An MS Windows computer to install the free QGIS software. I cannot support Mac and Linux versions.
• Nothing else! It’s just you, your computer and your hunger to get started today.

Target audience

• Students, Academics and Professionals who want to add QGIS to their armoury of data analysis and add cartography to their presentations.
• Absolutely no experience is required. The QGIS tutorial shows you exactly how to get started with QGIS and shade your first Thematic map!