An introduction to GIS and QGIS 3

This section explains how to download and unzip the data for use in the GIS and QGIS practical sessions.

Here we'll look at some basic GIS concepts. The differences between rasters and vectors, properties and values, and the ways we can use GIS for analysis.

Here we'll just check that our practical data is working.

Here we'll take a closer look at QGIS and explore some of the potential and how to get help.

This section explains how to download and unzip the data for use in the GIS and QGIS practical sessions.

Here we look at the QGIS interface, layers and zooming.

Symbology in GIS and QGIS is vital to allow users to understand  what our map is showing. We'll also look at how to view some attribute data using map tips.

GIS and QGIS provide powerful ways to query data. Here we'll use some SQL to select by attributes.

Building on our previous SQL query we'll create a new query in QGIS to drill further down into the data. We'll also look at different ways to achieve the same goals through different selection methods.

Choropleth or thematic maps are a great way to convey information to the map user. Here we'll use classifications to show population by country in QGIS.

Getting more advanced in our classification now we'll look at population density.

So far we've looked at vector data. Here we explore raster data.

In this final section we'll explore how to use print composer to output our map to different formats. Sharing GIS data is often required and QGIS allows us to save maps as images, .pdfs and more through print layout.